Truck Load Rates Halt 8 Week Slide 2.0

I find JB hunt screws up sometimes. They will not accept something when they do not have set dates and times. So when they finally get the information it shoots up fast. Have won many bids because of this from them. I would bet it was just fine and could have been one of the loads that go to Charity. I did a few this year that was outrageous and was charity stuff.

 

That's why I got a little suspicious when the JB Agent would not pick up the phone. I mean, 9 grand is still good - I think it is - even if you sit there till Monday but that would be too depressing to sit there...maybe survivable, if it were only until Monday. But imagine someone living up there near Halfmoon, NY who just delivered something to Chicago area...that's a taker no matter what.

 

My favorite loads were for Starbucks out of Reno heading north. Here is one over New Years that's on Convoy right now for $9.10 per mile on 527 miles with only 28,000 in the box. Looks like the weather is going to be clear too. I'll bet if somebody was so inclined, they could bid it up to $10 per mile and get it. Starbucks pays stupid high rates for light reefer loads.

 

Well Joe, what did you decide? For comparison I've been off since last Wednesday. It's been cold and rainy and I'm caught up, WAY up, on home stuff and family time. I got bored so I booked two loads this morning and loaded up and left. First a shorty paying $7pm, then a long one paying $6.50pm. I'm loading the second now and have been waiting in line to load for 5.5 hours. What to do, it's easy money.

 

I am staying home over the New Year's weekend. I made a few offers for local loads yesterday and today on the Convoy's app but none was taken. They sell cheap lately. There are forecasting a heavy winter storm in Chicago area over the weekend, so unless there is a million dollar load to click and book, I won't venture out until Monday or Tuesday.

 

I hate seeing stuff like this because people will look and think there is money just falling from the sky out here.

I've only been at this for a few months but you can absolutely go broke pulling cheap freight. There are plenty loads out here with trash rates but the only thing that make it to social media are the bangers.

 

Not much you can do about it - people seeing posts, numbers, and coming to their own conclusions. You cannot hide it either. Especially that people are such animals that they tend to show off rather than showing themselves humbled. You see it all over the social media. Everybody is overbidding everybody in their achievements and those how show a little light of truth when the times are poor, are scorned, schooled and laughed at because the others themselves cannot cope with reality. Especially those who want to preach and teach, what is worse, brand others with invectives, which they themselves are attached to, yet they cannot do much better than the mediocre mass.

 

I think I know exactly who you are talking about. These guys buying into lease purchases thinking they are going to get rich, are going to be humbled when the bottom falls out.

 

I am talking about that the talk that have always been here and will be. The career spectrum for the working class seems to becoming more limited every year. The influx of people into trucking is inevitable because of its initial appealing and the lack of other as seemingly lucrative options. We can be prepared for the competition becoming increasingly more difficult. You don't really have any defense against those who can or think they can do a living hauling 1 dol per mile freight. Yes, one wave of them will go broke but soon enough another should come and be destroying the market for you again.

As it was predicted years ago, only the service sector seems to be holding up and expanding steadily but that is the sector that requires more qualities than the working class has to offer. The education and its utility profile plays the crucial role of someone's access to it. Therefore, I refuse to hear the voices who dismiss college degrees and university diplomas as not worthy the effort. On the contrary, they are essential to obtaining skills and professions that are inaccessible to any 3rld world immigrant escaping misery, or anybody who gets DOT# and buys a truck. For example, a daughter of a friend who was still a high school child at the time I bought my truck, now 7 years later making $150K doing some advertisements for Amazon. Nothing special about her. Average IQ and a graduate of a state college. Just burden less at the young age and blessed to have sacrificing parents to pay for the college...just that easy. And there are more examples like that right from this neighborhood when lots of fathers like me drive trucks. Think about your kids, if they're still young. Otherwise, be - PERHAPS RIGHTFULLY - concerned that all it takes is a few bragging posters to attract unwanted element of "they don't know what they're doing" to undermine your livelihood.

 

lol, couldn’t resist. Happy New Year everyone.