Getting Truck / Authority Beware - The Ship Has Sailed

Some people on here are crazy thinking were gonna hand em the names of the good brokers. The rates are still out there.

 

Just for the heck of it I called on some freight that was on dat. Pulling out of P&G heading up to Albany area 180mi give or take if you run 29 up to ny line. He came at me with 825 I countered with 1100 and we met at 925. Load 10pm del at 6am. Bam there's your 5.13 a mile. Circle8 was the broker.

What my dad and I do is I work 4 days and he works 3 days a week. The plant gives us a load a day 7 days a wk. 7000 LB dry load going 325 mi for 1500. We run back mt so its 2.30 for the round. He pays me 30% (450) a run and im home every night.

10,500 a wk gross with 2 trucks and 2 wagons. All but 1 trailer is paid for, were renting 1. Both trucks paid off and eld exempt.

This is threw a broker not direct customer.


Stop your whining and pound the pavement the rates are still out there.

 

I haven’t pulled a Circle8 load yet but it seems they’re growing. I’ve been seeing more reefer load postings from them hitting the board lately. They buy ad space on Facebook too, they keeping popping up in my recommended tags.

 

Dry van is what we been seeing and they start out ofering 4+ from the inquiries I made

 

I'm doing just fine. My dedicated contract ended without warning this morning, so I figured I'd take the day off. Then a load showed up 15 miles from me, going 10 miles and paying $400. So much for taking the day off!

 

Same here, doing well. Just delivered a $800 170 mile load. Reloading at same location with an easy 2 drop load back home again for $850 on 175 miles.

I'm booked into next week on over $4.00 a mile easy peasy freight.

The sky hasn't fallen...yet

 

This is pre Holiday season and I see 1526 trucks hovering over 2010 dry van loads in Windy City today. At this point, any run above 400 miles for 3 dol a mile starts feeling decent. I take myself off DAT. That's 1525 trucks now.

 

I just delivered a 170 mile load for $750. Doing a reload straight back home for $700. That's $1,450 for 340 miles. Left at 0300 this morning. Will be walking in my front door around 1330.

Talked to the guy sitting next to me unloading. He under a load from Sacramento, CA to Portland. $1200. He's reloading lumber back to Modesto for $900. That's $2100 for 1235 miles.

Funny thing is, he was complaining to me about how a lot of owner ops are running too cheap and hurting the "rest of us." LOL

 

Different lanes , different trailers not everyone is going to find those magical loads . I loaded the same load a fellow o/o loaded and he ran it for $200 cheaper , he asked why I thought his was cheaper I said cause you chose to run it cheaper . Somedays you hit a home run some days your just trying to get on base . Good luck everyone!