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I dunno how van or flat is doing there but Atlanta is decent right now for reefer. Not great but decent.. Hopefully it will get even better soon. So after I gave a prebooked load back Monday afternoon that was supposed to pickup Tuesday night at an Americold there in ATL I figured I'd recover with something probably better Tuesday morning. Americold was hacked last week and they're allegedly still all jacked up from it. That wasn't my problem so I gave the load back.

So my phone was ringing pretty good Tuesday on that posting. More than anywhere I've seen in a while. They still don't want to come off the money though. That's ok I was ready for the long game it's practically home turf. I spent most of the day going back and forth on a few loads I had my eye on and getting the posted rate up $800-$1,000 more than what they were offering early, only for someone to book them out from under me that afternoon just before the brokers were about to cave in and up the rate for me again (you're welcome whoever you are).

Then I missed out on a solid run to Connecticut Trader Joe's that I did get my $ number on but the fools had it posted for a 7 delivery Thursday morning. 7 means AM in my book. 19:00 is pm. So I rejected that one after they told me sorry it's PM. That was right at 5pm and they offered another $200 but I said no thanks. I could tell the broker wasn't happy and it warmed my cold heart.

So I spent the night at the Love's near Acworth and this morning my phone was nothing but crickets, which was disappointing but oh well. Volume was a little lower but not that much. I started checking on some options and managed to book 2 loads in quick succesion before lunch today that ended up more revenue, less miles than the CT load plus I'll be home Saturday night instead of living out of the cab over the weekend. Won't have to haul some crappy load out of the northeast either. It was a good day. Salvaged yesterday's bad ending thankfully.

 

If it's Cheshire. unless something changed, I thought that place didn't even start receiving until 2200. If so, you may have dodged more than one bullet by dumping that one.

ETA: posted as I'm appt + 1hr into my visit to the Dacula Publix. So what do I know? Last few times were 2-3 hr turns so I'm cautiously optimistic.

 

It wasn't much different than the way I ran with a van trailer. Top dollar was always the high pressure all late night runs when everybody else wants to sleep. Production line was about to go down and driver don't let that happen. It'd start with an afternoon call and hurry up to the shipper, load quickly and run nonstop 50 miles or maybe as much as 700.

In early 2015 the bottom fell out of freight and all that good stuff disappeared. I got rid of my van in 2018. Reefer is more consistently better rates and much easier to build a week especially if you like longer runs. Which I don't really but I had to adapt to running those sometimes when I hooked to one because there's always a bunch of them.

 

You can do that but to me it looks like the best reefer money is 1,000 miles or less. Multi stops too. Or the real money these drivers that have it going on with LTL. Of course rates are terrible right now and it always seems like long hauls suffer the worst extreme of that. Occasionally I might book something in the 1,300-1,500 range but practically never more than that. I like to hang out in the southeast and midwest.

 

I average around 1.70 cpm for all miles right now. 50-60 cpm profit. Dry van.

 

This week for me was 4 loads. $5,650 booked - 1,976 loaded miles - 607 empty miles includes from home and back to it at week's end. That's about average on the year. Not very good but grinds out a paycheck. I couldn't manage that with a van. This time last year when everything went to hell I was at $2.75 all miles and it's been a steady decline from there.