Just wondering where you folks would recommend to base out of so someone could get consistent long mile loads?

Any opinions about North South runs as opposed to East West or Vis/versa?

Well usually east coast or far west coast. always can get good loads with decent miles. (traffic is bad)

South to north Texas was a good state do to Laredo and El paso (Sandiego in Cali was good as well)
Freight coming from Mexico, This is going to slow down with the recent change in the Laws allowing 100 Mexican trucking companies to deliver freight anywhere in the US. (they probably will get the good long haul because they will not have to pay them as much)

Georgia, Louisiana, Chicago, New York, Texas, Baltimore, California always have been good for me to get long haul fright out of.

5, 15, 97 ,95; up and down, up and down, up and down, Seattle or Spokane to Los Angeles (1100/ 1350 miles). Sometime sideways to Phoenix, Las Vegas, the Bay or Reno. Seattle to the Bay, 800+ miles.

Get in a good weekly groove of an LA turn and you'll do 2,500- 3k/ week.

Look at a map, population centers are far away from each other out here. Portland to Sacramento, 600 miles, nothing in between. Seattle to Boise, 500 miles, wide open Interstate. Stockton to Wheeler Ridge, barren desert, no congestion. US95, US195, US395, US93, just empty 2-lane where another vehicle is so rare it seems suspicious.

Run 5 West. Easy work, but mind the snow and go slow downhill.

You can easily be home friday night, deliver monday morning. Or drop friday night and be back in LA or the Bay monday. Slip in an extra turn and you'll do well.

If I ever got a less than 300 mile load, it was immediately followed by one 1,100 or 1,200 miles long, sometimes straight through if you felt cheated.

[Irwindale to Spokane LTLS, by the time you got to Bend, you forgot what day it was; or the Package service, Vernon to Kent - just good up and down West Coast miles with easy freight]

Someone else can compute the hours or lack thereof, but that's how I did it and never had a problem. Alot of the I-5 fleets did it that way back then. I only need to sleep once to get to LA from Seattle - others are different.

Don't do anything you don't think is right.