What Rate is considered Cheap Freight?

a friendly wager says you could of easily squeezed more out of that run

 

He's full of it! Not realistic at all.

 

At the moment I'm getting $3.52 on this 1180 mile trip. Good luck to you in whatever you do.

 

I just finished one paying $3.60 on 900, if you're mindset is $2 a mile is what you want, then $2, or less, is what you'll get...

Do I get hung up on?

Yes.

But, if that load was cheap, then the broker that hung up on me actually did me a favor. I don't like wasting time, and ending the call quickly, when the load is "cheap", is a good thing.

Doesn't really matter to me if I get hung up on, saved me the trouble of hanging up on them.

 

I've been working exclusively with one CHR agent since the start of the month. This guys office only "owned" one of the loads I booked. I negotiated way over the top rates on 2 loads and the other 6 I accepted at what he offered to pay without counter. I've worked with this agent a lot in the past two years and we get along well. For me it has been pretty average and nothing to get jazzed about that those 8 loads averaged $2.91 per loaded mile to my truck on 2,049 loaded only miles. My typical loaded average at 89% of the gross runs about $3.50 a mile, so CH has really got me, that's ok I'm not mad. Without that 11% off the top that $2.91 a mile is more than $3 per loaded mile what CHR see's that we average. Now, all that said I only needed a couple of great loads then pick off other stuff around those to build on and pull that off. It helps that this agent knows me and likes loading our trucks. It also helps that even if another branch owns the load, I can book it thru him, and he will typically offer a little better rate first offer than the office that owns it will. He does not haggle when I give him well over "we normally move this for" yada yada. I sometimes go to dead areas in my regional runs but not often. Now how is that impossible again? This is just doing typical van freight. It's not impossible to get an over the top rate into a decent or good area. And someone tell me why shedding tears over a great round trip rate to a deadzone is something one should be doing? Not if it paid enough. You guys make this out to be more difficult than it is. I can book myself up for almost a full week like this after a few hours study/inquiry with that agent on various loads.

 

This little Midwest regional area is red hot right now. I could easily average $3 a mile on runs of about five hundred miles. If I lived in the Midwest and drove solo I'd just cruise around the Midwest loop, going where the highest bidder took me...

 

I'll add one more thing, I used to go to New England a lot. I liked the rates I could get, and thought that the only time I could get those rates was by going up there. I haven't been to New England since May 2013....

 

Just pull chemical tanks... No looking for lanes or the right broker. It all pays 3.00 to 5.00 a mile gross.. And they almost beg you to take it.