Seasonal overflow loads.

Oilfield always starts to slow in the fourth quarter. That's because oil companies set their budgets in January. First quarter starts out gangbusters in a good year and you run hard until October. The fourth quarter is a game of patience. Many companies blew through the annual budget and start stacking rigs.

Here is the thing, are you in the long game? If you are, then you continue to service your customers during slow times. Those that do get the first call during the boom times.

The fourth quarter is also a great time to take vacation and get that engine rebuild, if you socked away stacks of Benjamin's during the first three quarters.

 

If he stacked Benjamins he wouldn't be looking for work.

 

Possibly, but we don't know the whole picture. A man might have mouths to feed.

 

I'll take another stab at helping you.

Are you an owner operator leased onto a carrier, or do you have your own authority? That's an important question.

There ARE power only loads available from Laredo or El Paso. They pay about $200 to deliver a trailer to somewhere in the upper Midwest.

Whaaaaatttt!!!??

Yep, you heard me right.

The catch is you have about three weeks to make delivery of a clean EMPTY trailer and they don't care how many loads you haul between picking up the trailer and making delivery. As long as you have insurance to cover it, you can see what dry van, reefer, etc. have to offer for two or three weeks.

Power Only for oilfield pays considerably more, especially if you have tanker and Hazmat. I ran three loads in two days a few days ago on PO basis that required Hazmat and tanker endorsements. Two days work for a normal week's settlement.

If you are leased to an oil field company, check and see if their sales folks are humping for power only.