Ok, so I have pretty much found a good rule of thumb for finding dead markets when you are searching the loadboards.
Any major metropolitan city is a dead market for good paying loads. Here is an example from my experience.
Richmond.
Baltimore.
Charlotte.
Philadelphia.
Norfolk.
Pittsburgh.
Harrisburg.
Knoxville.
New York.
If you want good paying loads, don't go to big city's. You can thank the brokers for this.
Dead Markets
Discussion in 'Freight Broker Forum' started by 6wheeler, Oct 13, 2017.
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I'll be devil's advocate here .... Let's thank the drivers who accept the cheap rates from brokers.
The broker can't move anything without a driver that takes it for the crap rate.
Stop hauling freight for "backhaul" "fuel money" and destroying the industry for everyone else!
The rates spike on the week of 10/4/17 was primarily due to lack of capacity from the small percentage of trucks shut down!
Hey.... Get together people!.., there is hope in making this industry what it once was! It will just take ORGANIZATION and WORK.
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It's just supply and demand. Cities, almost by definition, consume more physical goods than they produce. When cities DO produce physical goods they are usually highly finished and take less transportation than the supplies to make those physical goods (creating more inbound traffic than outbound). Add to that all the shipments of stuff that the city people want to buy and you've got a lot more coming in than going out.
When there is more coming in than going out most of the money will get paid for coming in. The entire Northeast, FL 10 months of the year, etc all pay #### going out for this reason. They also pay a kings ransom going in because they pay #### coming out.
Nobody is to 'blame' for this lol. Nobody is screwing anybody. When people talk about free market capitalism this is exactly what they mean. There are no free rides and inefficiencies are temporary. If you want to make 1.25x what other trucks are making you're going to have to be flexible and clever and find where the silliness is going on that week. Or you're going to need to go out and find a customer willing to overpay you out of desperation or ignorance. If a broker finds a customer who overpays he owes you exactly 0 dollars of that overpayment. He did the work to find that money. Go do your own. -
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