Rates these days???

In the crapper if you can keep the steady gig do it

 

My rates held steady out ofOmaha all winter with my flat with side kit ..2300 to Laredo every week , now for some reason they have fallen off a few hundred , was offered an 1800 load to Laredo yesterday and told em I'd stay home for that .

 

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Your Avatar is Better..........

Anyway Folks......Yeah, Rates are Bad,

Regular steel run I have from Chicago to York,Pa... 680 miles $165 in tolls....Started out @ a $2,044.00 move..

Customer shows his loyalty to himself lately as I question a $1630.000 Target rate.

 

Too many trucks created this fiasco.(And I don't see it cleaning up itself soon)

Everyone and their brother wants a truck and a brokers telephone number..

Trucker: "I calling on load from xx to xx, I have truck, What load pay?"

Brokers love these guys

 

I can't say much about rates since I'm a company driver, but steel freight for us is still slow coming out of the Illinois, Michigan, Ontario region and lumber demand from Western Canada is only slightly better than it was since December. Things SEEM to be picking up a bit now that the Canadian dollar is recovering, but manufacturers still aren't going nuts like they were last spring.

I remember this time last year, our one trailer yard (stuff going west) was pretty much full of loaded trailers all week long (stuff moving in and out) and we maybe had 5-7 empties to play with... now it's loaded with empties and maybe has 5-7 loaded on any particular day of the week. Friday's usually end up with a lot of stuff moving down into the US, but very little is still going West.

Just some added perspective if anyone might benefit from it (i.e. might be easier to run out of Canada than in for right now).

 

Pic of the "old KW" please...