Christmas Tree Loads...Do they pay well?

I checked on a load a couple of weeks ago from Oregon City, OR to Calexico, CA. The rate offered was decent enough at $2,700. The devil is always in the details though.

They wanted me to drop my trailer in Calexico where another company would hook and take into Mexico for 24 to 48 hours to unload.

I said, thanks, but no thanks at that point.

Another thing about hauling trees like that in a dry van, is the loaders place the trees in such a way that the walls bow out.

If you don't use straps like every 8' to suck the walls back in, you run the risk of being over width at the scale house and put oos until it's fixed.

 

Portland OR
To Houston tx

Need Curtian van , van or Reefer
No touch xmas trees
Ready now $5200 around $2.50/ mile
Call me
806-782-xxxx

This was posted in an o/o group I'm in on Facebook yesterday.

 

I saw that too. Notice most of the comments are about how cheap it is, compared to how long loading and unloading add to the load?
And also that it's more like $2.3x a mile?

 

I didn't do that math on it but everything is always cheap with that group.

How much does a load weigh of Christmas trees weigh? Are you grossed out at 80k?

 

Welp...Just for giggles,I just did a search on This Particular topic...

The Borkers have Christmas trees in Northern Michigan Going Southeast and Southwest,Here is What the Borkers are paying,And You can Tell me if its Good Money...lol

To Chicago- 303 miles paying $675.00
To Ohio- 340 miles Paying $725.00
To Southern Indiana and Kentucky- 550 miles paying $900.00 And 635 miles paying $1050.00

So you Guys tell me if that's good money hauling trees on a Flatbed with a Nursery tarp






Only the Borkers...........!!!

 

Lol. Are you Mickey Melon from the getloaded forum? I remember you using the term borker and Euroglider

 

Mickey melon used to be on here too.

 

Isn't it tho? And promoted as the "fair and right way to run a trucking company"

If I ran my business that way I'd have sold all my stuff so long ago I wouldn't remember it!

 

lol, Who's Mickey Melon?

 

Wow, I wouldn't touch them for those rates. I did considerably better then that per mile on more miles.