Slow Freight?

depends on the type of freight and part of the country. In my neck fo the woods, we have been dead for awhile, it is finally starting to pickup a little, but even then it's day by day. Monday was 11 hrs, today was barely 8.5 hrs, tomorrow looks like 11.5 hrs. The last three weeks have been good, but it's been rough as well.

 

Deep south, florida, has picked up a little. Up about 15% from last year at this time.

Booming I tell ya !!!!!

 

there's a lot of variable's with this ?. Where is he, what type of trailer, is he running 48 states. Certain segments of the economy is still slow but if he is dealing with food he should be ok. But trucking there is always periods of slowness sometimes worse then others. Sometimes you just hope that at the end it all works out.

 

I run flats and with me its week to week one week more work than i can handle next week barely anything its a tuff time and i don't see it get much better this year.

 

the economy is going to fully recover in 1 month.

 

I run flatbeds and I've been so busy the last 6 months....It's been crazy!
I've put 130,000 miles on my truck this year and probably 95% of those miles were loaded.

I don't EVER haul cheap freight.

 

Well guess I'll find out.Putting my step back on the road.Been dinking around with vans,reefers,and some tankers for last year.I dont haul cheap either but everyone seems to think rates are headed back up.Hopefully the fuel prices will remain halfway stable for a while.You mentioned west coast truck lines on another post.Iworked there for 5 years in the middle seventies. It was a good company till they got into van freight and started pulling doubles.

 

I run flatbeds and I've been so busy the last 6 months....It's been crazy!
I've put 130,000 miles on my truck this year and probably 95% of those miles were loaded.

I don't EVER haul cheap freight.
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130,000 miles this year? You must be haulin' ###. We've only had ten weeks in 2010. 13,000 a week. 1,830.98 miles a day. 163.453 miles an hour # 11 hours a day, or 76.29 miles an hour # 24 hours a day.

 

Not sure but I think he meant in the pass year he's done that...LOL