Truck Load Rates Halt 8 Week Slide 2.0

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  1. p608

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    Only when you use it as an inhaling device, so I am told.
     
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  3. Midwest Trucker

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    But there is no possible way us common folk could pull for $5/mi if the LS greats are getting $9. lol
     
  4. REO6205

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    What they don't tell us is that the load required a 100 mile dead-head, loaded in three different places, only ran 30 miles, had to be finger printed, had five drops and took two days to completely unload.

    But, what the heck, those are just minor details, right?
     
  5. jason6541

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    Jim Hawk told me next April for a new stainless van, lift axle and interior lights
    58k, #### spendy. Still tossing idea around.
     
  6. Midwest Trucker

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    Stainless van? That would be pretty sweet.
     
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  7. jamespmack

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    I turned down a broker load for Tuesday. 4.94 round trip, yard to yard or 11.71 loaded mile. Shipper sucks, reciver sucks. I dont deliver to them. Broker states that he has never had problems with them. I informed him I wanted 150.00 per hour after 30 mins. If I'm wrong it won't cost anyone money right? Told me that's insane. 2 coils 45k only.
     
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  8. DeereRunner97

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    If rates are so good, then how come the leader of this thread has had his truck parked for six months? Y’all say you got more work than you know what to do with. Making just a stupid amount of money. Heck, he won’t even put it up for sale when you can name your price selling it.

    Must be that PPP Loan.
     
  9. SteveScott

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    I know a number of O/O's who only work a few months a year. It's one of the perks owning your own business.
     
  10. DeereRunner97

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    So those O/O work when the rates suck, but park it when the rates are good. Got it.
     
  11. SteveScott

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    Or, maybe they just work the same months every year regardless of what the rates are doing. Believe it or not, some O/O's have all of their equipment paid off and have no bills. So they only work when they feel like it. Got it?
     
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