Rates are crashing and fuel to the moon!

I was having a ton of back issues until I bought myself a pair of Hoka’s. The $50 pair of Skechers just weren’t cutting it anymore.

 

I have bought a couple pair of OrthoComfoot shoes and they are pretty nice to have for back issues as well. Not too bad prices either and have decent dress up shoes as well.

 

Fuel with IFTA was $2.68 yesterday.

B00M

C0NFETTI

 

Don't worry, it's only temporary...depending on who wins the election, and the one's that had it so high are hoping you won't remember it was them that jacked it up.

 

I never understand this, maybe someone smarter than me can explain...

Everyday in my running area, Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, and Michigan... 98% of the loads I see going to Texas for flatbed pay between $1.63 and $1.87/mile. Full loads...

Then when I look at ITS it always shows more trucks than loads in Texas, so of course everything leaving Texas pays trash as well...

So how do they get people to actually take the loads there in the first place?

 

The OM thinks you'd be a lot happier at The Landstarve.

 

Because it's leftover scraps on both ends. If you don't have good paying direct on one end or the other it's just not profitable going into Texas.

 

It's the same for dry vans. Cheap to go to TX and cheap to go back. In 10 years I went there less than 5 times.

 

I don’t trust those load board “load to truck ratio” thingys at all! So many TQL’s of the world manipulate those on purpose……. I mean they post 20 loads going from multiple towns in Texas going to multiple towns in the upper midwest but since they are all within 50 miles of each other on the opposite ends they think it’s okay when in reality it’s only ONE LOAD that they are actually trying to move.
I’ve also noticed they post “ghost” loads (that’s what I call them) as well that don’t even exist so that when YOU are trying to research an unfamiliar area, you think that there is actually freight available to haul when you get there…….so you’ll take their $2.50 load to an area that you REALLY…..are going to end up bouncing hundreds of miles out to get reloaded.

 

I was going to mention this as well. It's not uncommon to see the same load being posted by multiple brokers and sometimes from the customer themselves all at once on the board at the same time.

Three, four or even five different entities all posting the same load with a slightly different city for the pick/drop at the same time on the board while constantly top-posting and leaving the old post still up can easily look like there's a hundred loads when in fact its only ONE load.

Both DAT and ITS are just as responsible for this as the posters are. Garbage data in gets garbage data out. The boards benefit from this "fraud" so they have zero reason to stop it. ITS in particular likes to brag about how many loads can be found on their platform. However, the dirty little secret is most of the loads don't even exist.

There's also the issue of loads that aren't even available yet they remain posted. Many of those are fishing expeditions to see how little they can get a load moved on a particular lane but that's another issue entirely.