Getting Truck / Authority Beware - The Ship Has Sailed

Someone has to start the narrative the other way. Many thousands and thousands of people read these threads. I’m just saying the gold rush everyone has been reading about is over, for now.

That was from hot market maps here in the Midwest, but it’s similar all over the country. Then backed by real world experience of running trucks this week from MO to NJ and WI to NC and everywhere in between. Also brokering a handful going cross country and to Florida.

Yep. You got it.

Yeah been hearing a lot of complaints out of TX. We don’t go there hardly ever but the word hasn’t been good.

True to an extent. My situation is different in regards to conditions as a whole. I’m not saying you can’t make great money right now. I’m saying the gravy train ship has sailed. So it’ll be especially difficult on new operators/greenhorns.

I wish you only the most success. Not gonna lie though I’ll get a little chuckle when your complaining in the future about how rough things are. It’s always easy to enter the market when its great and buy stupid crap like 7500 hot tubs and then when it’s bad enough people are going broke left and right your tune will be much different.


As a whole when your sitting in an office hearing phones ring and hearing calls being placed trying to book multiple trucks... you get a feeling for the conditions. If you post a truck and nobody calls = not good. If no loads are posted in an area and one pops up, you call immediately and sit on hold for 5 mins and it’s covered = not good. If you have a load you can’t cover yourself and you post it as a broker and your 3 phone lines instantly blow up and shut your system down then you know guys are desperate to book vs having to make calls to find trucks.

We hustle HARD and it takes some pretty bad conditions to affect our program at all. This week we felt it for the first time so thought I’d spread the word. Carry on though I know most of you are super truckers. lol :]