Is El Paso always completely dead?

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  1. May 17, 2016 #1
    RootHog

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    Managed to wiggle my way into El Paso to deliver my final TSC load of the week on Thursday morning. Actually, delivering in Lost Causes, NM because the load paid the same as the El Paso delivery, 40+ miles less to drive loaded, and delivered 5 hours eariler.

    Anyhow.....

    Been watching the load board since yesterday. Haven't been to El Paso in a while,but there was always a decent amount of loads to get a driver out of there and at least back into the Dallas area, possibly Memphis even.

    So far, one load has come up. Rate sucked, but I was going to take it anyway once it became available, just to get moving toward Dallas and grab something up to the house.

    Nope, that one load disappeared within a minute or so of it becoming active.

    Feel like I'm in a forgotten land right now, LOL
     
    RootHog, May 17, 2016
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  3. May 17, 2016 #2
    TennMan

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    We used to have a drop lot there for cross border but I'm not sure now, that was years ago.
     
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  4. May 17, 2016 #3
    stayinback

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    El Paso has got to be the WORST place in the country to be,,specially for a flat
    Rather be in Miami,Tacoma,Dover-Foxcroft,Grand Forks,Cour'D'Alene,Or any other Hard Hitter for quality as opposed to El Paso.......
     
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  5. May 17, 2016 #4
    bzinger

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    You forgot Denver lol
     
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  7. May 17, 2016 #5
    stayinback

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    id rather be in Denver.....I actually can get brick outta there coming east.

    el paso, even the best guys like myself struggle mightily.
     
    stayinback, May 17, 2016
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  8. May 17, 2016 #6
    bzinger

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    I'll go to ne Colorado if the rate is decent but I try to avoid it cause I always wind up bouncing to Nebraska for a good rate , I guess them pot heads in Colorado think a buck a mile is good lol.
     
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  9. May 17, 2016 #7
    spyder7723

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    You get good rates in Nebraska? Any time I'm headed for Colorado i just accept the fact I'm gonna be either bouncing west to salt lake, or east to st louis. So basically unless the rate has enough gravy on it to cover the cost of 1k mile dh i don't go to the rockies.

    As far as el paso. I usually get a load out of the mines in new mexico. If they aren't running then i dh to Dallas. Again, i won't go if they rate won't pay for the expected dh.
     
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  10. May 17, 2016 #8
    MidwestResident

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    It looks and sounds as though El Paso TX is in a very serious economic depression.

    God bless every American and their families! God bless the U.S.A.!
     
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  11. May 17, 2016 #9
    bzinger

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    Yeah the company I'm leased to has regular 2.50 a mile freight out of scottsbluff , Hastings and Omaha so that's why I don't mess around Colorado el cheapa skate freight and bounce out .
     
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  12. May 17, 2016 #10
    spyder7723

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    Correction: el paso IS a very serious economic depression. It's always been a crap place for freight. Even back in the good ol days before deregulation. Talk to some of the older crowd that ran their in the 60s and 70s, they will tell you if they went to el paso, they always got a couple days off to hit the bar while their boss found them a load.
     
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