How far would you dead head to get a load

I have a customer here that pays well and no point in sitting for days in a dead area .

 

One of these days I'm going to get a sound clip of Randy Travis singing Diggin Up Bones.

 

The driver that got $96,000 to run from Galveston Texas to Morgantown West Virginia pulling his oversized load could easily afford to deadhead back to Galveston Texas for another one

 

Look I'm not fond of deadheading let alone a 647 mile deadhead and everyone has there own views that I respect .
But laying over in Laredo a couple months ago for 5 days which I posted and took some flak over I think my detractors were right , that was 5 days wasted in a bad area at the time .
Since then I'll take a load to a bad area if the rate is good but I won't sit there long before I head out to greener pastures and will not waste my time hauling el cheapo freight .

 

Deadhead is irrelevant, would you do 1000 miles for $1100 without any deadhead, or you'd rather deadhead 500 miles and then pick-up a 2000 mile load that pays $4600? If you are paid by the mile then I'm not sure, used to be first 50 miles free and then a few pennies less than a loaded mile.

 

I work on percentage .

 

Oh ... I do it quite often. Depends where're you at. E.G. I don't wait for anything to happen in Phoenix, AZ, just go empty to LA land. 350 deadhead miles There I can find partials for 4-5K back to Midwest. Partials take time. I value time. The only loads going back to Chicago Area from Phoenix are about 2K so I don't bother to wait for miracles. Rate per mile matters, of course. But at the end, it is how thick your wallet is, that matters the most. Of course, there must be some incentive to go to Phoenix and the like places, in the first place.

 

And at times, after I have scored, I just deadhead back home 200-300 miles too. Just sick of the work and enticed by the thought of getting home at last. Don't care about additional 400-600 $, if it means 1 additional day and I feel pumped up. Might be considered a bad business but I don't care if my wallet feels thick.

 

I've had so many 600+/- mile deadheads back home this year with the dry van or reefer that I've lost count. I go home every weekend. I usually go out and right back on every load. That's part of the plan though. And I'm not trying to be a "no cheap freight hero" because I will glady take a cheap #### load if it is convenient and I will call it a "back haul" (hahahahaha back haul back haul hahaha) just to piss people off too because I don't give a #### what you think. Hahaha!!!

 

Everyone has theyre own price and circumstance.