Is work slow for you?

I #### near hit 3500 miles last week before i went home,.. Pulling flatbed.. I havent hit over 2200 since october. Was a good paycheck but was nothing but rain and bad tornado weather. And its hell chasing miles on flatbed...but i aint complainin ..hope things pick up for u , sucks sittin around waitin for the office monkeys to get their #### together

 

Full Truckload Van and Reefer are DEAD! (Can Only and Can/US)

LTL Van is steady, Specialty Reefer is doing good (Meat/Frozen/Flowers) (Can/US)

Turnpikes are busy (Can)

Flatbed/Rolltite/Stepdeck is DEAD (Can Only and Can/US)

Tanker and Super B Hopper are slammed (Everywhere)

 

Agree about super B hopper. It's fertilizer season . They want us to work eight days a week. But I'm running out of hours in six or less.

 

Yeah i was running illinois/indiana then down the texas and back up for 2 weeks straight, guess freight was paying good with all the bad weather in them areas. Idk if flatbed pays more, id rather be getting paid percentage than mileage since flatbed is alot of work outside of the truck ..i dont really like running alot of miles , but if the frieght is there and i got the hours , i aint afraid to run like a horse... Im back on the west coast now where i belong, pulling lumber down to cali and back up to oregon , up n down for awhile, is my prefered route.... I seen u on the forums quite a bit seems like u frustrated with ur company , and u seem like a real good mature person why not try out flatbed.idk ur location but there is a company my ex gf was trying to get me to come move to canada she found me a job with searcy trucking , they pull flatbed and rgn and everything inbetween. They pull mostly ag equipment down to the midwest i believe ,They are in winnipeg manitoba and i think they do training. Being young like u are , flatbed is rewarding and a different type of truckin than just the rat race pullin a box..its a little bit more work but nothin u cant handle, a little somethin new and change of scenery might help ya out some

 

I just call it how I see it, I also chill with the owner/office staff at my outfit, so I get to hear the #####ing about freight trendz lol.

Seriously tho, this market is so ####ed, gives me a ####in headache, #### sakes.

That and ####ing Bison is always trying to cut our god #### legs off; mother####ers!

 

It was for about 4 weeks, April into May.
Had about ten unwanted days off in that time.
It was slow April last year too but not as bad.
We only haul auto parts, engines , dunnage for same,
for one customer, so there's supposedly a seasonal component to it.
But if I wasn't about to take a loooong vacation I might be looking at help wanteds. I have no use for little three day breaks during my 6 month work sentence. Sux. I don't even like taking the 34 every week.

 

Ltl is down. We’re down to normal levels. Working 12 hour days is so nice. Been running our tails off with heavy tonnage. This normal workload feels wrong somehow. Lol!