Attention All Brokers Landstar,TQL,Crowley,Fox,Sentry,Global,C H Robinson,KLX,Epes,

I pull a flat and go to Texas but get paid good. I'll take the $1.50 to a better area and when all is said and done I've averaged a good rate for all miles. Sometimes I do what I call "Crap Hole Trucking". I go from one crap hole to another for good money and when I've hit rock bottom I dead head out 600 to 1,000 miles and end up doing pretty good. Think of it this way. Every single day you sit without a load your losing out on maybe $600 in profit so when you finally get that $.50 cents more per mile you technically lost $1,200 by sitting for two days but hell, you showed them!

 

lol skate, i hear ya.

 

We don't take freight out of TX period....we've been doing this long enough to not be like most brokers and say yes to every load bid that comes across. I'm sorry that you are stuck down there but if you went into TX this time of year, I hope that you got paid $3 per mile or that was a mistake on your part. If you did, a short $1.50 per mile load to get out or deadhead are probably your only choices.

 

I don't know how long you've been an o/o but the nearer it comes to winter the worse freight rates get in the south. South to South rates tend to really take a dump too.

 

Supply and demand is the simple answer. And your truck willl move for a buck fifty, maybe without you,but $1.50 to get out of no=where to somewhere will pay expenses. As long as you got a good rate getting there, put her in the wind either loaded or empty.Sitting still cost the most, IF loads are real scarce.

 

You're not gonna change the world. They're no different than you charging $5 a mile when you know they can't find trucks. Their phone is ringing off the hook with trucks that will book and go whatever the price. They're gonna make a buck off that it's how the cycle goes.

 

Straightliner it's them ones that don't know their operating costs and are new,and the illegals messing up our rates.Broker tells them$300 for 600 miles and they say they will take it for even less.