Truck Load Rates Halt 8 Week Slide 2.0

Those who, I imagine, you really want to go under, will be the last to go. That is those who can perfectly function under your 2 dol per mile profitability mark. The ones who are going under are probably and mostly the good guys in your book... nice looking newer trucks, paying their drivers on W-2s, legitimate ELDs and doing all what good fellows are supposed to. Their mistake is that they have too much overhead and compete on the load board for all of their freight...I guess they compete with me too.

Well. I did not go under yet, my fish boat may not have as much fish as some others show here, but I can sail through a storm just as well.
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I did not get very excited going back to that truck after two weeks of home sitting. Just got too comfortable.

This was a short week for @TallJoe and it has been as follows:

1. Home - Rockford, IL (50 DHM)
2. Rockford, IL - Omaha, NE - $1170 (Detention: $70.00 - 2 billable hours included) - 420 miles
3.Omaha, NE - St. Joseph. MO - $ 600 - 165 miles
4.St. Jospeh, MO - Urbandale IA (200 mile DH)
5.Urbandale, IL - Bensenville, IL - $650 - 330 miles

I left on Wednesday afternoon - will return tonight and get empty in Monday.

After fuel and tolls: $1900 - $2000.

 

Speaking of fishing, my buddy and I went out on the bay for 90 minutes late yesterday afternoon and caught 3 halibut each which is the daily bag limit. It was a hot day in NorCal yesterday and the bay was flat calm. It was the fastest either one of us have caught a limit of halibut so quickly in over 40 years of fishing together. The first one I caught was almost 30 pounds, so we kept it and released the rest. So tonight I'm grilling some beautiful fish. Home all alone and enjoying the heck out of it. Still have plenty left to share with the rest of my neighbors and family.

 

Mmm. Nothing like fresh caught fish grilling

 

You cant find fresh open sea fish in Chicago. No matter how much money you want to spend.

Italian beef with hot peppers and Gyro is what I'd be missing, If ever moved out. But if I ever do, I'll buy me a boat and I'll be fishing too.

 

You have some great eating fish in Chicago from Lake Michigan. Granted it's not sold in restaurants, but it can all easily be caught from a boat. Chinook and Coho salmon, rainbow and lake trout, large mouth and small mouth bass. It's all great eating fish. I know, I grew up eating all of it.

 

I grew up eating walleyes, pikes and eels.
The best of them were eels, big time scavengers, best way to bait them is by a head of a slaughtered hog.
Yep...good days of youth.
But now I want to catch halibut or merlin on an open sea.

 

Lawrence Sobolewski

Humboldt Bay is having the best Spring run of halibut...Pacific and California varieties...that I've ever seen.
This was caught by a friend of mine. We're going Sunday.

 

You ever stop at Rubens in Lake station Indiana. Old place been around for 50 years. Cheap good food.

Chicago Dog with fries $4. Italian beef with fries $5.

Italian beef has $5 worth of beef on it. Fresh buns too

There is a pilot on the north side of the freeway but I always overnighted at the Road Ranger about 500 feet south of the freeway and 300 feet from Rubens.

Parking for about 15 trucks and always got a spot.

Keep it a secret though.

Never drove through Indiana without a stop at Rubens.