$1.08/mile from PA to Phoenix?

No..
I go out to Phoenix pretty regular if you get $2.00 a mile coming out you’ve done well. Can’t speak for reefer rates haven’t pulled one in years. The boss man just bought a couple so that may change.

Treat Phoenix like Florida make your money going in ‘cause the odds of getting something good coming out aren’t real good.

 

I just looked on DAT and there are at least a couple van loads that show rates for today in the $1.50 to $1.80 range. Reefers loads are hovering around $2.50.

 

Canada has a huge cannabis shortage. Get loaded!

 

Someone needing to go home would take it.

They unscrew the sealed door latch, then install another latch to add some freight or do whatever, prior to arriving to the customer, they put back the sealed latch. Sometimes they forget LOL but some receivers turn a blind eye and many brokers even condone it. That is part of the reason why Chicago - Cal loads pay less than Chicago - Denver runs. At first it does not make sense but it does...they load up the trailer with even three full loads, put them on a train and then in Cal unscramble them at a warehouse - trailer loaded sometimes with 60K lbs of freight.. That's Chicago style cross-docking. You can wait for the "eventually" long time - I am afraid..

The sale of these must have raised significantly in the last 2 decades.

The manufacturers must be wondering ..WTF is wrong with our trailer door latches....they keep replacing them.

Wabash trailers have come up with different locking mechanism a few years back, different lathes - can't do it with them. So Wabash is not too popular lately among cross docking experts.



I got into a little debate with someone over such practices, telling them this drives the rates down, not too mention it compromises the cargo... Well, their reasoning is that they do it due to low rates....that you can't survive without doing this and if they don't do it someone else will and most of all, it is not like they're stealing freight but merely consolidating it. Vicious circle.

 

Well....the customers call me out of the blue. I don't even really look for work anymore, it seems to find me. I've lost some stuff to the cut rate guys before. No big deal, if the customer is happy with the service at that rate then go for it. Just don't expect to get me on the regular like the deal we had before they hired cheapo filippo. It generally ends up being advertized by someone new when it falls apart. It's all good. It is easy to change course being a 1 truck show. More difficult if you have a lot of trucks and customers and lanes and juggling it all. The analogy of a speedboat versus an ocean liner turning in the water is true.

 

You're running reefer. Reefer loads require much more care than dry van staff. So they can't turn a blind eye on such things there, especially food and perishables. Good service must be in demand. I hate/love reefers but I that's seems to be a better way to earn good service appreciation...at least so I think.

 

I love to hate it.
When the season is here, you make good money. When it's gone.. that's it. Figure out a new lane. It lends itself to long distance. I do a lot of frozen, not so much long stuff for me.

I look at dry van and figure I could make a good living staying just Ontario mi oh in il ny pa there's always lots of dry van stuff posted. That will probably be my next move so I can work short radius all year. Run a reefer in summer and into fall and a dry box the rest of the year. Maybe buy truck #2 and put someone in it to drag the ice box around.

 

That all depends on what you got in the box!

 

Not enough freight for the abundance of trucks wanting to go that way. The usual non special dry and reefer stuff for 1/1's out of the northeast to the southwest pays crap 99 percent of the time. Unless you work with a low profile consolidator/ltl brokerage or have a lucky customer that pays better than the average rate for that lane.