Flat Bed Freight

For the right price mine WENT!!!

 

If your "stuck" anywhere, you're probably on the wrong end of the business. You are just taking loads to turn your wheels. I love driving, but it don't drive for the love. I drive for the freedom. That's why I don't do dedicated and I only take customer freight on my schedule.

I see way too many posts stating they "follow the money" or "haul in for 'x' haul out for 1/2x " to get back to haul another load for x. Most of the time, I won't even start my truck for x.

Sounds like a long week on a short road to bankruptcy. I'd be willing to wager their safer stat is nothing to write home about. It starts out seats, radios, and A/C, the next thing you know it's windshields, tires, and s-cams.

why would anyone screw around with cheap freight? I just bought an airline ticket across the country for $107. A few weeks ago I flew to Denver for $169. That's about 300 deadhead miles in fuel.

Let's say, I lived in Florida where the rates are crap. I'm willing to be gone a few nights a week. Why wouldn't I drive my truck one time to a market begging for trucks and fly back and forth? Instead, you'll take freight into a crappy market for below market rates and take a giant thumb in the keister to get out of there so you can be home only to average break even rates at best.

 

Was that $107 monopoly money?

 

What can I say?

 

I'm getting well over $2.25/mi for GP lumber out of Madison, GA...

 

I run local on hourly rates. A rare type of trucking where I'm earning when the wheels aren't turning. I've done the OTR run-around chasing rates-per-mile, and, insofar as I can help it, I'll never go back.

 

Atta Boy! Now your workin smart..Many of us wont ever see that opportunity.......

 

Same old story here. . . the small fleet owner who has a regular account with a big company. We will haul a good load down to the SE, then go out into the sticks for a lumber load. The small fleet run a brokerage and takes 15-20% off the top and then pays the trucking side $1.85 to the back haul. Now everyone is happy. . . HaHa!