A Possible Unintended Consequence Of CARB '14 Regs....

You know I have had just the opposite problem, I could get really good loads going to Cali, but trying to get back out at times was terrible.

It just really depends on what is going on and where the freight is moving.

 

I had some lady call me the other day and wanted me to move a broke down Freightliner feeder truck from Fresno to Phoenix. She said it was possibly over 11' tall, which would have made me over 14' on one of my landolls. I gave her a price of $1975 and she freaked out. She said her step decks were only getting $750 to $1000 a load out of CA. I told her she would not be able to be compliant come January with those rates. She said she wasnt going to haul to CA come January. Good more cheap truckers for the rest of the country

 

Some people are in the trucking business, others go trucking as a hobby and because they are not serious about making money they work way too cheap.

 

What you should be doing is figuring out how to open your own border transloading business. California will soon become like the Mexican border. CARB trucks will haul to AZ/NV border and loads will be transloaded to the non-carb compliant trucks. Don't believe me... sit back and watch that action.

 

It has crossed my mind, was thinking have a yard where drivers could leave their bobtail, run em in with a compliant truck, unload/reload and come back out to their truck.

 

Imagine Kingman,AZ becoming the center of the CA freight universe? Along with Verdi,NV Jean,NV and Ehrenberg,AZ

 

I have never got a good load coming out of Denver, I think that is just a Denver thing. I've bounced to SLC and up into Wyoming to avoid hauling cheap out of Denver. The problem is the city has more coming in than it does going out, and it has been this way for quite some time.

Now granted I run a step deck so I live in a bit of a different world, but even at that I rarely found anything leaving Denver worth my time unless it was going north in the middle of winter.