Rates are crashing and fuel to the moon!

I should add that the reason they pay more than general freight is that special care has to be made for them. You need to make sure they are moving when the sun is out and it is warm. You get an ag exemption for HOS for a 150 mile air radius for pickup and delivery. For example, for CA-TX CA-ND. You are expected to do 900 miles a day. There is no stopping and resting when the sun is up. No lunch breaks either. It will harm the hives. The bees need to be able to fly freely to cool themselves off. On the trailer they only get this cooling going down the highway

 

Good ol superior mulch loads .. that #### has always been cheap

 

I ran montana for 3 years and did pretty well for myself...never once did I use a loadboard. There is plenty of local companies banging around there all day everyday... loadboard has and will always be scraps

 

I had met a Bee guy a few years ago. He had a very nice Coach and a trailer behind it that had his bees. He would go from Canada to FL with them. Dude made some big money somehow with them to afford what he was doing. The Coach was one of the bigger nicer ones a person could live in no problem.

 

Was probably 50/50 for me. I’d have some regular direct loads and board stuff to fill the gaps.

 

less then 2$

 

Everyone is different but anything less than $3/ mile is cheap. The $2/mile days was 20 years ago when it cost half of what it does today to own and operate a truck. Cost of housing, food, and living in general was hell of a lot less than what everything costs today, so why on earth would anyone be content with 20 year old rates?

 

if you thought $2 a mile was cheap-

 

Preaching to the choir here, but what can a small O/O do to change it? Try to obtain good customers, and take the beatings as they come. Hope the bad evens out with the good. So long as there’s drivers willing to live in their trucks, crap in bags and drive for pennies then we’re stuck with it.
I still want to jump back into it.

 

In to Florida......SMH