"freight is slow"

Change companies. Abilene Motor Express drivers don't have any problems getting plenty of miles every week. It's dry van freight. This company hires in Illinois. The drivers have a good strong thread on here and post every day.

 

yes Abilene Motor Express has more freight moving then anyone else.

 

Seems that company has their stuff together!
@MidWest_MacDaddy

 

if you say so

 

Yes, freight is slow. You can check the spot market average here:
http://www.dat.com/resources/trendlines

Because turnover is so high they need to always hire to keep from falling behind the curve. It costs them very little to have a sitting idle driver ready for a load and they would rather have that than miss a load due to not having enough drivers.

Win: them. Lose: you.

TA

 

That's all true, then add in the fact they need to be "over-asseted" to insure they can cover any freight surge anomalies that may occur any given week/month.

Somebody like Abilene Motor Express ... No doubt they are blowing and going today, and that's great for them and their drivers, but to what end? Another Swift or Knight? We've seen this movie, many times.

 

something missed here is otr driver's do bring in the freight for dedicated driver's

 

Should be picking up here shortly in a couple weeks Spring summer brings construction road work etc you will see work pick up here in a month or less

 

That is true.

 

I'm not sure the spring pick up for construction is gonna matter....

The down turn will probably last longer . (Hopefully not)