Freight is up , no it's down , no it's ..... ?

Smart voting taxpayers know better than to buy into this BS. Which is why the democrats will loose their donkeys rear in 2010, because the American people vote their with pocket book, not by what they hear in the media (unless we're talking most Obamma voters)

 

My freight has picked up to the highest level in over 2 years. I hope it continues.

 

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You can look for a slight up tick over the next few/couple months. It takes time for some products to work their way into the system.

We're pounding pavement wide open, for the moment. I spent my first weekend this year, away from home, just last month. And they're still hounding me for more miles.

We supply corrugated boxes and roll stock, we can't move it fast enough. And scrap is actually starting to overwhelm us. We picked up 4 new accounts in the past month....and they have spread us extremely thin.

When these boxes....loaded with goods make their way into the supply chain. Some of the other guys will start seeing an improvement in miles run.

 

at least it's not a government agency. we might get a little truth from it with no spin.
As far as my job goes, I am running around the 3000 mile range weekly. Which I really don't want to run anymore then that. But I have seen alot of drivers sitting around for days waiting for loads though.

 

well in spite of all the experts there are areas where fright is picking up but it depends on what part of the country your in it is not picking up everywhere, we are still down quite a bit overall but it is slowly improving but dont run to the bank just yet we still have some bad times to go thrue.

if we all are going to survive we still have to keep that belt tight and the overhead down as much as we can.

the credit market is still locked up tight , banks are not loaning money so were pretty much own our own so we still have to be extreamly carefull with the decisions we make .

drivers mostly company drivers are still out of work and more and more are losing there jobs the big companys are feeling the heat to, not so much owner operators but were still losing a few of those.

we just have to dig in a little more and depend on each other for help more and more , we will make it or most of us will anyway and a lot that lose wright now will be abel to bounch back stronger then ever. keep the faith and remember you only lose when you quit. best of luck to all.---southernpride

 

Hmmm, I financed a car last week. My bank must not be effected. They didn't take any bail out money

Big companies hurting ?? Our new accounts are from a few of those big companies that made profit projections based on the light loads they had. Which translates to zero profits pulling paper roll stock loads.

 

My miles the week before thanksgiving break and this week were the highest yet. All moving our own stuff. Have to see how next week goes.

 

October and November were pretty solid for me. First week of December brought me back to some semblance of reality. Got an 800+ mile load to deliver Monday at 1300 though, so we'll see how the next few weeks go.