Hows the rates coming & going from nyc?

Looking a buying a used reefer in the future. Can anyone tell me how the nyc reefer rates are? My dad plans on putting me on a truck once his ins will cover me. Im currently in food service and I do a lot of nyc so If I could get a good rate I'd have no problem running nyc.

 

I'm not looking to do cross country but im willing to do most of the eastern states. I won't be able to run cali with a 93 mack. My dad hasn't had a reefer since the early 80s so hes not caught up on everything. He's paying cash for solid pre-emission mack so no truck payment.

The whole reason I brought up nyc is b/c of all the companies that don't do nyc and I've always heard anything coming in on a reefer pays pretty good. I've had my cdl for a year and change most of it has been peddling food around nyc and the island. My dad hasn't had his authority since 08 but I'm gonna use my uncles number to check out some load boards. I know its not wise to live off spot freight but you have to start somewhere. My dad has a tit company job he's staying there for the year at least, one of the last oil patch jobs still around. After paying me whatever profit is left is for his retirement fund. I won't be 23 until september right now it would be outrageous to insure me even with a spotless record. I offered to pay for part of the ins, the least I could do for him. Sure would beat humping freight all week

 

that 4500-5000 better be a low ball on a 2200mi trip into nyc. forget those kind of rates. Back in the early 90s my dad was a Teamster O/O out of the 282 (nyc). Dam near 25 years ago my dad would pull steel into the city for 525$ plus his tolls paid on a 350mi round trip. Half the time a $225 load of rebar was coming back to binghamton. Sure it was all ran by the mafia but they got you paid and rolled out the red carpet.

if he had 3 loads of rebar coming back every week that was about 3300 and fuel only cost about 65-75 a day, and 25 yrs later that's what a lot of owner ops are doing. What gives. In the early 80s my dad had an old rail pig reefer he used to haul melons from GA to VT and got somewhere around 2.00 per mile.

 

Yeah I know. Were putting 2 trucks on next spring at that same flat bed company. Home every night and my uncle is doing around 2600ish after fuel with his own auth. Or if we can get 3 flats with 2 trucks will have a pretty lucrative gig hauling trusses.

Now we just need another pre emission mack and were set. lots of options open with 2 trucks and 3 flats. My dads not worried he survived 82-08 and parked it refusing to run cheap, this time around though its a 250 month note instead of 1400 like the last one. Run the old iron while you still can. de-reg then nafta totally ran this biz into the dirt