Load Boards

Ok...Thanks !!

 

Not only that but we can't post links to places you could post loads . Sorry . All we can say is "Google "

 

YES you CAN!

YOU can sign up to this FORUM with a small fee.

http://www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/seek-employment/

 

PP - I'm working on running a team truck myself, and you do have to plan on replacing the truck faster than a solo. To do the rough math, teams are getting 3k to 5k miles a week through most carriers right now, maybe more if you have luck with placing and time or a solid broker (6,000 miles a week for a team is legal and workable).

If you work the numbers at 4k average per working week and then 20% hometime you come up with something like 4,000 miles x 40 = 160,000 miles yearly. When I spec'd my truck it was a 2005 model with between 400k and 500k miles on the clock. When the unit hit the lot, it had 472,000 miles and as it was built in August of 2004 - that tells me it's had about 110,000 miles a year so far.

With an OEM service life of about 750,000 to 800,000 before serious work needs to happen, this gives it about 2 years of team running on these numbers. With decent rates (??? fingers crossed ???) the truck should be fully paid for and depreciated in the next 2 years, and I'll repeat the same specs for the next unit, or pay for the inframe engine overhaul and have the gearbox rebuilt. If the rebuilds are done (and done right) I could run it to the million mark and pay for the work done, then the truck would probably be worth near the same as 800k on the original parts.

If freight picks up, the income should too, and the truck will be paid for that much faster. This is all just bullsnot and speculating at this point, but the math looks good and math put men on the moon. If anyone has anything on all this, please throw in!!

Thanks again, and the best to all of ya

 

Dirty side is the east coast, Cali is the left coast. Check out this attachment for truckers lingo. Its pretty good.

http://www.thetruckersreport.com/trucker_lingo.shtml

 

I think it takes 2 people to keep an o/o moving...One to sit and click on the load board and one to drive....I had to give up my job as a recruiter to find loads for my husband...It takes a lot of work and it is a good thing I am in sales, or else I don't think we would make it...You have to know how to communicate with brokers- Always be upbeat, ask how their day is going, let them know if you are struggling and need to "just get out of TX", don't let them put you on hold and give your load away! Most of them want to help, and feel confident that you will make them look good when you deliver on time!

 

anyone know of any decent free load boards?
reason i ask is............
i don't plan on getting my own authority anytime in the near future,
but i WOULD like to start looking them over to familiarize myself with their layout ETC.
AND perhaps when my Co. cant seem to find me a load home i MIGHT be able to find one on a board and suggest it to them.
i know they use brokered loads sometimes.
i DID find one.. PickaTruckLoad i was browsing it but there were no rates posted for the loads or paid miles. do you have to call the agent to get that info??
THANKS

 

i dont know of any free ones

the ones there are will show you whats available in a basic search

but no contact info or what it pays nothing with it

 

Lots of them have a free trial, you can poke around for a month or so. I've heard you still have to call on rates a lot of the time though.

 

Even the boards that you pay a monthly subscription to don't post a rate 90% or more of the time. At least when I was looking at them as a part of my daily duties that was the case.(been a couple years ago now)