How difficult for a truck ?

Gross should not matter. It is how much you keep that counts!

 

I think you are wrong!

 

Download the 123Loadboard app. While it is a subscription service, you can look at about 10 loads a day. The good thing about this app is it shows the average $/mile for a lane.

You can put in your equipment, reefer in your case, where you want to originate, the date you want to pick up, and the radius of deadhead miles from your origin. Look at what's offered in your home town, look at the lanes and rates, then see if you like a certain lane. Then start searching for loads in the destination you might want to haul.

One thing I've found, at least with flatbed, is you rarely get the lane average. However, once you establish a track record with a broker you can start getting better rates for certain loads.

I use load board apps for backhauls. Oil field tariffs are good, but I like to get SOME revenue on a backhaul if possible on long hauls.

Timing for reefer loads is also important. I have a friend hauling out of Des Moines that waits until Friday to take loads to NYC for Monday morning deliveries. If he takes the load on Thursday he gets 30-40% of what they are willing to pay on Friday afternoon.

 

True, reefer might have some advantage there with all the produce.

Be CAREFUL getting a high rate into a dead zone. I can get high rates to CO or ND, but barely pay for fuel to get out of there.