ESTES Express (5 Year Review)

Off duty sleeper. On duty. On duty yard move It don't matter if your paid by the hour.

 

@KaoMinerva my Paducah buddy starts his bid Monday.

To Bloomington every night. Said 4 breaks a night plus 588 miles. Should be 454 a night. I told him your a lucky dude. 2 years on extra board and now he's making big $$ going home.

 

Wonder what the runs out of Fargo would be? I’m assuming one or more is Minneapolis/St Paul. Think I may look into it a bit further....

 

Billings is a good one, but usually triples. 604 miles with a meet and greet. Have a terminal in Bismark, but never been there. If they have a Joliet run direct or KC, those are great extra board runs. Yes, MPLS is often a return with empties from Fargo. Fargo is our conduit for Canada (Winnipeg) bound freight which we contract out to Canada drivers running triples, thus the great amount of empties returned. There was talk of running more freight from the West coast via 90/94.

 

That fargo/KC run is awesome. I saw no one from the time i crossed the south dakota border till I got to fargo haha.

 

My favorite money run, Denver to Des Moines. 671 miles, all flat, can do it in 10 hours and 20 minutes give or take 5 minutes. I do this run once a week round trip. On it today. Keeps me in the lane.

 

I do refrigerated and dry van right now but yeah, I'll go somewhat fairly often up that way on I-29 from the Missouri area to Sioux Falls. Sometimes I'll go up to Fargo too. Those runs are really great. Plus no mountain driving. If I ever did LTL or any kind of trucking for that matter I would love a daily Fargo to Kansas City run. Shoot, I would probably move to Fargo or Kansas City if I could get a dedicated run like that right out of the bat (though I'm sure those runs are really competitive).

 

That run doesn't exist. Would run through MPLS, then Des Moines. Only way to get to run like that is randomly through extra board, bypassing the normal travel route.