Freight Rates

Check out Trans-Core analytics - they do a weekly average for Dry Van's, Reefers, etc along with a lot more useful information on rates and area's showing loads vs truck availability, great for planning how to take advantage of hot and well paying lanes. This is a overall Jan 2011 report on Dry Van rates overall;

Spot market rates for dry vans declined by $0.05 (3.9%) to a national average of $1.23 per mile in January, compared to December. The stable trend nationwide masks a number of regional rate increases and decreases in major markets, however.

Remember though this is a general average, rates and loads vary, I just read where for Reefers the Denver to L.A. backhaul is paying unusually well atm.

Good luck to you!

 

I hope When you say $1.23 avg you mean + fuel cost and FSC?

Otherwise you better be jacking the fuel and using someone elses plates. lol

 

If you read my post you would realize it wasn't me who said that, that $1.23 avg comes from Trans-Core Trendlines site AND was only for Dry-Van lines for the month of Jan as compared to Dec 2010. You can check their analysis and logistic analytics here;

http://www.transcorefreightsolutions.com/

 

Cheapest load I've pulled was $1.79 the rest over $2
JUST SAY NO TO CHEAP FREIGHT
I am sitting up in Harrisonburg getting unloaded now and plan on dead heading home if I cant get at lease $1.70

 

here you go again mrktwiz...how dare you try teaching other people?
do you happen to understand the basic mathematics?
you'll most probably be grossing more than that just as a leased so called o/o with usx, and what about the trailer? the registration?, the insurance? the road taxes? the what ever all kinds of other business expences??
and the food? and the clothes? and the heath insurance? and the all home and car bills???? and the food for the kids on the table?
c'mon man...get your maths and facts straight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
there are some of us here trying to make living and feed our family by doing this never at home crappy job. and not to mention...only one little thiniest mistake can put any of us out of business or even in jail.
try for a change to THINK about it!

 

that was NOT any valuable info kyser!!! try to figure out your actual expences per mile based on 100.000 miles/year. first the current fuel expence...fuel price youre paying devide with average # of miles youre getting per gallon. that may easily be already over 80 cpm today. tthen trk 'n trl payments, insurance, registration...shall i continue? you're already at or over 1.29/m...
you should be averaging at least close to 2 bucks/m on ALL (loaded and empty) miles...otherwise you better look for some local walmart/mcdonalds job.

 

Purger--while the last time I comment I was obviously being very tongue in cheek--and while I believe you ARE a very hard working--good business man--and I do understand your feelings about lease purchase drivers vs O/O's and small fleet owners--especially as I've stated in many other posts--
leasing a truck from a company is not at all the same as being an O/O with own authority etc..
I think IMHO you're missing the point here--I have no idea what the US Express poster actually does--I think he/she was just answering a ????-not suggesting what to do--the link they provided is to a 3P logistics companies website where they are doing their freight estimates--and I am sure their reasons for posting these average industry rates--is probably to make their (too low)rates--look attractive--but I really think they posted that link just as a way to help answer the original question
Just my $.02

 

I am out of Central IL and try and stay in IL, OH, WI, IN, MI but have some direct loads that take me out of this area. Since January I have averaged better than $2.00/mile. On talking with drivers that do not seem to even come close to this there are two common thems.

The first is area. They are in an area that consumes freight with little going out. So getting livable rates is a challenge but doable.

The second is that drivers are afraid of sitting empty. They are taking loads days before the get MT at rates they don't like. And unless I need to get home or to another area for a load I do not stress if I do not have a load arranged even the morning of getting MT. With the exception of a load to Atlanta this last Monday I have always been able to find a reload at a above market rate. And my Atlanta reload was at $1.80+ when I had been offered rates in $1-$1.25 range.