Truck Load Rates Halt 8 Week Slide 2.0

We don’t have that rule in the states.

 

A patient paid a visit to a psychiatrist.
"May I help you?" said the doctor,
"I can literally fly" said the patient,
"Nonsense ... but show me how you do it"
The patient jumped out the window and like a big bird flew around a few circles and then he landed back at the doctor's office.
"Wow!" said the doctor "I'd like to fly like that too."
"It is easy. All you have to do is to flip your arms really fast..."
The doctored tried. He jumped off the window and killed himself upon hitting the ground++++++++
The patient looked down at the corpse and said:
"It was all fun but I gotta say, I am one big son of a bitch of a guardian angel !"

 

I sat down and got caught up on paperwork after I returned from Nevada. Things are holding steady at $2.31 all miles to my truck after lease. I plan on leaving the end of this week or early next week for 4 more weeks and then I’ll be calling it a year.

Since things have gone in the crapper I find that I’m bouncing in and out of the house more. I used to be able to pick up stuff from Lincoln or Omaha to get out but that doesn’t happen anymore. It’s a wash for me to bounce 4 hours out and pick up a customer load instead of dealing with a broker load closer to home.

 

I am booked for two loads until Friday.
A loop to take me right back home.
888 all miles (which includes 275 miles of total deadhead: about 210 between delivery and pick up) for $2500. 1 night spent in the truck.
IL - MI - IL
$2.81

Then Monday-Friday 3 loads totaling 2540 miles (about 250 deadhead miles within the mileage) for $5745.
IL-MN-PA- IL
2.25 all miles. It looks feeble but still workable.
The next week is a subject to change due to yet undetermined appointments. I may yet to cancel MN-PA-IL portion and redesign - which is OK by the broker who administers this portion of the trip, if done by Friday.
Canceling is all right if done ahead of time - at least 24 hours of the business day - not the last hour, especially, when you pre-book loads ahead of time.

I am having lots of solicitation calls from overseas offering dispatch services. All of them have the middle eastern sound. They call like diarrhea.
I got annoyed too much and told them that I wouldn't deal with any dispatch service based in the 3rd World because there is no jurisdictional connection there and they must be out of their mind thinking that I would sign any power of attorney agreements or other documents with them. I told them that I would not do business with anybody who I can't meet face to face.
It is upsetting to know that there are some unproportionally cheap entities based abroad, having access to the same loadboards and ability to pick those loads for further distribution.
I suspect that the way it works is that they must have some connection to a company based in US with a carrier or brokerage authority and that company "hires" them to do the operations like scanning loadboards, booking, double-brokering etc. But I guess it is a part of a free market and it shouldn't be regulated either.

 

Sounds like a Coyote load based on the cancelation policy lol. They're really not too fussy in current market conditions (loads cover easy) even if you cancel the last hour as long as you communicate a lot your issues several hours beforehand.

 

Basically, what we have now, should be considered as a spot market norm.
If you can't make it like it is today, you won't make it ever.
The gravy train comes and goes too fast, like a youth of a dog.
Not long enough for you to start fantasizing about a scotch and cigar on your own boat.
You are here for bitching and moaning interrupted by short moments of joy and glory.

 

The holiday push being a bust isn't normal spot market. Even in crappy years you could count on that. You should not be pre-booking a dry van trailer at this point of the calendar year in any year. There should and would be easy money day of bookings in a normal year.

 

Know what’s fun? Making a round to Seattle, coming back with 7100 pounds on, and not hitting clear roads until you’re almost Fargo.

 

That sand gets frickin everywhere too.. Did u have to throw any iron ?

 

No. I got lucky, going in and coming out I hit Snoqualmie in the afternoon and they had lifted the restrictions. None of the other ones were too bad, just snowpack and some loose snow. My socks are still packed away under my bed. Lol.