Rates may soon be coming down

Hard to imagine rates coming down in California over the next year because of CARB compliance. A few hold out pitifully poor or defiant small fleets and owner operators are hoping for a miracle in CARB enforcement, but since most fleets and many owner operators (including myself) have already complied, I see only a continuation of the carrot and stick process to clean air for California based fleets. However, for out-of-state fleets and owner operators, defiance, poverty, and laziness all contribute to a shortage of trucks to pick up California produce. I'm personally hoping that the anti-clean air, Fox News defiance of some truckers continues, so that I can benefit from the higher load prices. There's no way that other growing regions or cross dock operations can replace the cooler warehouse docks of Salinas and Fresno. Customers don't want their produce loaded, unloaded, and reloaded from one trailer to another just because a trucker can't abide by CARB rules. While enforcement is more carrot now than stick, as the number of those out-of-compliance drops off, CARB can start focusing on the deviant bad boy truckers.

 

I go to Texas (home) twice a week get good rates both directions, not sure where yall are looking. Hell I'm trying to find an O/O who wants to do nothing but run around Texas, my customers have more than I can move by myself.

 

Define "good rates", please. Out of TX to where and back?