Current Van rates dropping, is there an end to this?

I've been seeing the same trend in the open deck world on the lanes I run as well. It started to drop after July Fourth then dropped even more after Memorial Day. Now, they're bad enough for me to start sitting. For me, this time of year things start slowing down anyway. There's a thread on here where van haulers are still making some big numbers so there's that too.

 

I've seen a small drop in the open deck lanes I run as well. It isn't low enough for me to consider start sitting yet but it's ticked down. The higher fuel prices and winter definitely raised that number though.

 

AL has sucked lately for sure. Even worse for reefer. Go run somewhere else for a bit is my advice.

 

Well I am in the Northeast and at least where I'm at things suck.

The loads that I normally do are not there. There are other places to travel to I suppose but the rates for them look pretty sucky in addition to paying tolls and everything else. Sometimes you can find a good-paying load but now that's becoming more a Rarity than the regular course of business.

In my opinion, The Surge after the economy was closed down that the supply chain was backed up now is leveling out. In addition to that, now we have bottlenecks with getting the freight from the ports and it seems as though there might be one day there's a spurt of better rates and then it goes back to being crappy again for however many days.

But hey, keep buying overpriced trucks and trailers, that'll make things better...

Whatever it cost you don't worry about any of it. The sky's the limit! Time to get in on the gold rush!!!

 

I noticed a couple weeks ago, a lot of rates advertised that are very close to the old rates. Seems to have gotten worse. I’ve waited sometimes, and a decent paying Load comes up, and is gone right away. That’s a bad sign.

 

iits hlgonna come crashing down hard. thats for sure. specially for people making big equipment payments

 

They will go up right after Thanksgiving