Truck Load Rates Halt 8 Week Slide 2.0

It was, I held a thought for to long

 

That’s outstanding Joe. Great job. A far cry from the crap talkin you received after your 1.13/mi turn back in the spring.

Great rate per mile. How many miles y’all average generally? Break 5k gross in a week per truck?

Most of the big boys are buying trailers and not teucks. They can’t fill the trucks they have so are looking to be more efficient with what trucks they do have. This is a good thing in regards to the area of trucking we all do.

I’m sure some are genuine but I bet quite a few have branched off from being leased on. That would skew things.

I’m very bullish through Jan 20. Through end of this year and the first two weeks of January, we are going to see earth shattering rates. It’ll continue unless there is a shut down.

Very nice. Amazing what happens when freight sits and they need it badly.

Love it, he didn’t realize you were DH down there. Or just stupid. But like I said above, it’s nice to be needed! Looks like you may have carved out a nice little new wave to ride.

 

1300-1500mi wk, lazy man's work. Since the start of Nov we've hardly had any empty miles. The one turn we do with both trucks reloads at the same place going back to shipper. Works out good because they're flexible with the schedule. If we can't can't cover it that day they just book it for the next. The other turn we do ends up 1 hour from house so we bounce back empty

 

This year my empty miles are record high. I do it on a premise that Time and Revenue is what matters at a dry van spot market AND perhaps wishful thinking that running empty has VERY significantly less impact on wear and tear, almost negligible. You calculate only fuel cost but I do realize that it may not be quite so exactly. I doubt there are any studies showing difference of the same two trucks wearing down mechanically as one of them is max loaded and the other empty or extremely light.
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Same here, I personally never count deadhead miles separately, it all goes together.
If load is 400 miles, but comes with 100 miles deadhead, in my book it simply goes as 500 miles load.

 

On the loaded vs DH miles “argument”. I never really understood why people figure anything other then all hub miles. I have no idea what my loaded mile would be. I still pay driver, I still pay fuel, the truck still gets wear, the miles still show on IFTA that my insurance bases off. On and on. I almost have the opposite view of you Joe in regards to wear. I feel like the truck is built to be loaded, so my wear isn’t much different when empty.

That’s just me. I think that only seeing all miles also helps a guy decrease his DH. When you track loaded it’s a false impression.