Picking my own freight baby! My journey to & of being on Schneider choice, the Adventure & Numbers!

If someone ran 2800 miles at just $1.25 they'd have between $1300-$1400 after expenses.
You can still make money out west and have more freedom vs being a company driver but the difference isn't as vast as say living on the east side of the country with better rates.

I complain about $1.20-$1.30 stuff but hey most fleases pay around that and people still make it even with a dispatcher and etc.
When you run for a lot higher out east you get spoiled or at least I know I do lol.
I'll run circles in the Northeast endlessly because I refuse to leave for less than $1.40

 

It's not on there now

 

Okay let me rephrase that, it's hard to get out without taking a beating.

Here's a list of BEST rates currently up through Monday:

TX-TN $0.94
TX-IL $0.95 - Laredo load for $1.17 but that's way down there
TX-KY $1.09
TX-IN $1.22 - from Freeport
TX-WI $1.04
TX-MO $1.22
TX-OH $1.06

No loads to the other Midwest states. Good rates to OK though but then you're stuck in OK

OK-TN $1.22
OK-IL $1.09
OK-KY no loads
OK-IN $1.25
OK-WI 1.32
OK-MO $1.29
OK-OH $1.40 (best I've ever seen)
OK-MI $1.33
OK-IA $1.40


Yeah you could get out but not at appealing rates.
With even a little deadhead and being in the right area you might pull off $1.30 something all miles out of OK.
Currently based on ALL the loads that's the best you can do.
That's the reason why I never went to those areas.. it's always cheap coming out.
I guess you can run regional and do well there until something good pops out to get you out. That's what I do in the Northeast whenever I get sucked into that black hole lol.

 

a load popped up going from NY to SC for $1.85
If you're patient even in crap areas something will come up eventually.
By patient I don't mean sitting lol.

 

After a while you learn what is a "good rate" from and to a certain area.
For example if I get stuck in the Northeast I'll blow time doing regional until something pops out that can get me out for $1.40+ all miles.
Once I see I can pull it off I take off and don't look back lol.
Multiple times I got stuck for 10-14 days running the Northeast regional (no New England) because I refuse to leave for less than $1.40.
Eventually I always hit the numbers.. sometimes it takes a bit.

Last time I got lucky and got out for over $2 to NC but included a correcter WV load and WV sucks but hey money doesn't come easy.
I'm in Pittsburgh tonight and I'll be right back here in two days again lol.