Truck Load Rates Halt 8 Week Slide 2.0

They did, especially in the middle of the week. Monday MI-MN $2800 700 miles, Wednesday MN-PA for $4500, while DAT showed average $3100 .
Another truck MI-upstate NY $4000 on 670 miles and NY-MI $2000 730 miles.
Definitely wouldn't have gotten that out of MI if it was a regular week

 

You’re not below $2pm are you?

 

I just got home today after 13 days driving coast to coast and back. Didn't see any inspections going on, and I only got pulled into one scale house the entire trip in North Carolina. How I feel right now is why I rarely stay on the road for more than 2-3 nights a week. I did 5,493 miles and I'm wooped.

 

Good on you helping family like that. Family takes care of family.

 

I always get pulled in in NC, no matter what I'm hauling, even empty. Lots of NC weigh stations don't run their Prepasses either. Ticks me off.

Glad you got er done, Steve.

 

I had a rather humbling experience during this trip. We loaded all of my brother's family belongings in my 53 ft reefer trailer. I originally thought that it would fill maybe half of my trailer. Since there is no real way to secure things stacked to the roof inside of my trailer, we loaded things low so they wouldn't have far to fall and get damaged. We ended up loading it front to back, all the way to the doors with no room to spare. In NC we hired 4 guys with moving experience to transfer it all into a Uhaul and take it to their new house. The humbling part was that they fit everything we loaded in my reefer in a rather small 26 ft Uhaul and made it in one load. What took us 3 days to load took them 2 hours. So much for my loading abilities.

 

If you had some load locks. You could have probably stacked it better.

 

I did have load locks, but there is only so much you can do with so much odd sized stuff sitting on the trailer floor. Used one to lock in a fridge and upright freezer in the nose, then used another one to lock everything in on the back. It's a whole different ballgame with things aren't neatly stacked on pallets and shrink wrapped to keep them in place.

 

Oh and one other thing I'm really pissed off about. Tried going and leaving to find a fruit stand in NC to stop and buy a case of those great peaches which are now ripe and in season, and I couldn't get into any of them with my truck. The peaches here in the west are horrible compared to those grown in the east.

 

How is it that in the last two weeks, I’ve had two trucks built at Kenworth, and are delayed 30 to 60 days until pickup. But, they are laying off workers?

Kenworth in Chillicothe announces 350 layoffs

Oh yeah, our politicians sold us down the river to countries like CHINA.

Ive heard of several different places/industries now laying off workers because there is no materials to use. Are these disruptions going to temporarily reduce demand for trucks? Why did it seem like even with a blitz things were softer on the spot market this week overall? I don’t mean much but certainly not hotter.

The shortages we’ve saw so far, are they small compared to what’s coming? Can China plunge the US into recession?

Hmmm.