Good Freight Area Vs Bad Freight Area?

ME VT NH ND SD UT WY MT CO NM AZ Canada,MX Don't go there unless you know what you are hauling back if you R Lucky to find it.

 

You left out NJ, NY, CT, PA, DE, MD, FL, TX, MN and DC.

 

F L O R I D U H!!!

 

Hey, I exclusively run the northeast and I don't have any problems with dry van freight, and I didn't when hauling a flat either. My bugaboo has always been trying to get out of Texas, mostly in a northerly direction. Also Canada...don't go in without a preplanned load out.

 

I always found freight headed to tx from AZ. (VAN driver, not to sure about flatbed) I norm would run from NJ to ID, ID to AZ, AZ to TX, TX to PA, PA to NJ..it was a nice 2 week run.

 

There is no such thing as a bad place to go. Just a bad rate getting there. Go wherever you like, just get enough money to deadhead to the next good place.

 

Your instincts from any possible company driver experience will be somewhat useful here, along with what you hear from others. I always as a rule, if I'm unsure about an area, I will push as aggressively to get as close as possible to a round trip rate. Doesn't matter what the length of haul is either. I even do this on areas I don't care to go to but will if the price is right. I really never cared if it was "whoa!! way above market" or "why so high driver??" that is not my problem because when you grab a load for a rate like that on the off chances then you got something really good. There is no such thing as "above market" market is whatever they will pay. Granted 95% of the time you get hung up on on, laughed at, or yelled at but you know who the joke is really on right? The sucker that's having to get it covered. When you book that load on a rate and you are uncertain what prospects of a reload are that is a LONG drive to the consignee. When you get a rate that you're not worried about you're stress free having fun. You will learn some areas at times you can actually get rates like this. You will learn others you can't. You will get a feel for going rates, average rates, this way. Once you have this down you'll have better standing when capacity gets tight in these areas and can tell when they're really desperate. That's what you're always listening for cause it's game on then. When you know going rates and can establish solid "fair" rates with good brokers they will like you, random brokers will despise you (but they'll still pay you hahahaha!!!)