Are you sitting a lot lately?

Anybody else been sitting a lot lately? I'm being told freight is slow. Coincidentally, though, my miles dropped at the same time that my FM went to weekends-only & I got switched to a different FM. Used to be, almost always had a pre-plan just before I got to delivery and was running up against my 70 all the time. Now I'm lucky if I'm not sitting for 12 hours waiting for one & I don't even have to think about my 70. Today was a good day... Only had to wait an hour after delivery before I got a pre-plan. Have things slowed for any of my co-workers out there as well?

 

OTR. No desire to go dedicated at the moment. Possibly in the future.

 

I'm not a trainer but I'm experiencing the exact same thing. Load quality has decreased since winter and I'm regularly sitting for a day between loads. Another thing I've noticed is the loads I'm getting have way too much time on them & I'm sitting on the load for a day (on top of going a day without a load at all). Just finished a whopping 225 mi run this morning that they gave me 36 hours on. Ended up being a 4-hour unload too. Then they just tried to give me a 600 mi run that doesn't pick up until tomorrow (Saturday) afternoon then delivers Monday morning. So from my 08:30 del this (Friday) morning to Monday morning (3 days), I would have gotten 600 mi total. They did end up pulling that & gave me something better after I expressed my displeasure to my FM. Doesn't pick up until tomorrow morning so I'm still sitting today, though, after only running 225 mi in the past 2 days.

 

I'll probably look in to Walmart out of Gas City if & when I ever decide to go dedicated. For me, I'm afraid I would get bored with the same route all the time. Maybe it's just because I'm still fairly new at this, but I enjoy OTR. And I never had too much of a problem until my FM changed. It's kinda sounding like the FM change might have been coincidental timing though.