People must be desperate

I work for a mega that will run cheap freight. If I pick up a load that pays less than $1/m it's normally coming from a very low freight area and going into a high paying area. I don't mind breaking even on a load or even losing a little money if I know I'm going to pick up a $2-3/m load after I drop off the cheap freight.

Of course it would be nice to have high paying freight everywhere, it just doesn't happen. My company also bills a fuel surcharge @6mpg x a rate based on natl. avrg. My truck can get 8-9mpg and rarely goes under 7.5, so I don't really pay for fuel. Even with $1200 /wk in fixed costs for a new truck, permits, ins., etc. I still average 1200/wk profit.

 

On another post theres a guy on a LTL / partial at $1.66 / mile

I just booked a load where 1 of my trucks that just dropped 1 of my trailers has to move another companies trailer 200 miles to another location for same customer @ $1.23 / mile to pickup 1 of my trailers for a 2100 mile run.@$2.60 / mile

 

Hauling lower paying freight is one thing. Hauling cheap freight is just wrong and lets the brokers win. Many times a load for say 1000 miles will be paying 2.50 r 3 a mile but the broker tries to sell it at 1 a mile and pocket the rest in his companies pocket. I will set instead of hauling cheap freight and if I cant get a good load to roll with I will deadhead to a load or home. Heck I was in cali years ago and it was late in the afternoon when I got unloaded called a broker on a load told him I need to get back to the east coast asap and he told me a lower rate than what was posted. I made my offer and he told me well if he need to get back that bad you will take it...told him well I do need to get back bad but I would run empty and that's what I did. he called me the next morning begging me to take it at my offered price and told him to bad I was long gone.....

 

Just got a load to Long Island from Tulsa at $1.90. Better then a similiar from earlier fo $1.65. Delivers Monday and I'll get by the house for a day.

 

Could you define cheap freight? Right now I haul out of So Cal to Wa all in its 2.85,freight coming back to Cali directly if I can find it is paying around 1.50. Sometimes I run out to ID or UT but freight back into So Cal just sucks. So if my rate out is 2.85 and I run back for a 1.50 or even a dollar am I hauling cheap freight? Seems to me Im averaging over 2.00 a mile for the turn,cheap freight is a term that get tossed around alot by people that dont get the big picture. Of course there are not many O/O's that can run for a 1.00 a mile but I bet there are a few.

 

1.50 is my cut off and that load is just to move out to a better area. I try to keep my avg at 2 or better but anything under 1.50 is not going on my deck. 1.49 I am walking away

 

Running back from the WEST coast for FREE is not a very smart business move , bet you feel that you sure showed that broker

 

1.50 is my cut off and that load is just to move out to a better area. I try to keep my avg at 2 or better but anything under 1.50 is not going on my deck. 1.49 I am walking away

So what is it. $1.30 or $1.50

 

I felt real good doing all the way. Never been back they can keep it. Sooner we give it to mexico or it falls in the sea better of the we'll be. Ca. is the dog's tail thats trying to wage the rest of the country along doomburg land.

 

I'm not trying to pick a fight with you personally, but what you just said is everything that is wrong with the industry. You just breaking even, or losing a little money on any run is the dumbest thing anyone could do. I'm glad that you are backed by a mega carrier so at least you can have something to fall back with, but as this trend grows and grows those $2-3/m hot spots are going away. For exactly that reason... It's not your fault, it's just the way it goes.