Midwest Freight going downhill?

freight has been cheap everywhere.

they think flatbedders get as good fuel economy as vans. and can afford to haul just as cheap.

$1.50 seems to be the going rate no matter where you are. been like that since the new hos. it's just about gotten disgusting look at the boards anymore.

 

Texas freight and especially south texas freight has gotten so cheap because the mexicans haul it that cheap and make money. Easy for them considering their equipment and lack of insurance and availabity of drivers. Also mexicans can haul dirt cheap because they get fuel for almost half cost of us.
It's been that way since the Bush party opened up the border to Mexican carriers and gets worse all the time especially winter.

 

west coast seems even worse than before. I'm in Vegas and have called on several lds. Evwn having to buy permits and they want to offer 2/3 mile freight gross.
Called on one ld. from Nv. to Wy. Just a slight bit tall. 1.65 mile gross. No thank you

 

all bush did was enforce nafta that was signed by Clinton. if you going to blame somebody blame the right person. bush should have pushed for a nafta repeal

 

NAFTA was actually negotiated by Bush 1 & enacted under Clinton.

Ross Perot warned us about it.

One unforseen effect was that it actually drove a lot of Mexicans north over the border. Mexico could no longer put a tariff on U.S. corn, so our product hit their market at much lower prices than their small domestic growers could produce for. Many of them abandoned their farms & headed for the U.S.

 

Fella's we need to leave the politics out of it, please.

 

Freight to the southern states always starts getting cheap around October, when the weather starts getting cold up here in the Midwest. Everyone wants to run to warmer climates and so on. I've been killing it here in the Midwest lately, but I'm staying to 300-400 miles of Chicago. I'm making more $$ running local stuff than I did running OTR. And it seems to be picking up since nobody wants to play in 30* temps. It's ok for me, and hope the trend keeps up.

Try looking at short mile loads over the long haul stuff. I'm keeping my rates around $15 mile for local stuff (50-100 miles) and about $6 mile on the stuff going 100-200 miles.

 

Landline magazine had an article this month about the cross boarder trucking program and according to it there are less the 50 trucks and drivers from Mexico participating in it as of August.

Here's a link to another article on the participation in it http://www.truckinginfo.com/channel...ross-border-trucking-program-with-mexico.aspx