Winter Income compared to Spring/Summer/Fall ?

This is an interesting question that I would like to hear about as well. About to start with a flatbed company.

 

I cant help you with flatbed but with dryvans typicly january and most of february slow down. There seems to be a large push to get excess inventory shipped and off the docks before the end of december which takes its toll come january.

 

I agree. January is also when a lot of manufacturing and retail companies load up trailers and park them in some back lot so when they do inventory in January, the customary time dictated by accounting rules, the bean counters can keep all that inventory off the books (thank FASAB and GAAP for that) since goods in transit do not qualify for inventory. December, January and February are the biggest months for trailer leasing companies. As soon as inventory is done the goods go back into the warehouse and the trailers go back to the leasing companies.

 

might as well just take Jan and Feb off.....might find something worthwhile ate month end. March is sometimes better....end of Q1.

 

It's not really that much of a price drop it's the lack of freight it's really not uncommon to sit longer looking for your next load. It always drops off from thanksgiving until 2nd week in feb.

 

spring comes around we cant find no sd/fb in the area to ship out palm tree's. so we give them to brokers.
But no work from the 2 week of December to like 3rd week of January
But if you do keep your price high especially in snowy states.

 

I make my most money from aug-december

March-june are good too

Rest of the year might as well go home work @ the dollar store.

 

Hi guys - is it feasible to pull a different type of trailer the months where the work is slow? Maybe a refer in the summer months or something along those lines? Or do you lose ground with the contacts you've been working with?