Back hauls

$1.40 and $1.60 lot better than I seen on some rates. I've hauled a load out of Or to IL that paid $1.29. But I had no say in the matter, and I still made my set pay at that time.

I have worked for one company that did not look for back hauls or load home which ever way you want to put it. I would leave out Monday night, and be back home Friday night. Once I emptied out, I headed to the house. Only once I picked up a load to bring back. And it was a challenge. 1000LBS over Gross. Made it from Waco TX to Georgia no problems. Only had 1 Block of Rock on the trailer.

Once I get my own authority, and If I get into hauling from my home town, I could afford to deadhead home. Why wait around for a 1.60 or a 2.00 mile load? But many do not want to haul stuff from here. Either going to be alot of drops (Had up to 18 drops one trip), plus to mention where they going to some has weak hearts and scare to easy. Scared they will see some zombies walking around, or Ghost one....

 

$1.40 to $1.60mi in january is not a bad load

 

No such thing as a back load in my book...I load and go, I don't care where as long as the rates are fair and it's going somewhere I know I can get out of.

I have turned down loads that paid pretty good because I knew that I'd have to deadhead three hundred miles to get another load...And I ain't doin' that!

 

Getting decent rates out of TX is the hard part. If you have that covered, then then getting good rates back into TX should be relatively easy. I can only speak for the lane that I know, but MN to TX averages $1.60 to $1.80/mi depending on the time of year, sometimes more. The nice thing is that it's not hard to run MPLS to DFW in 24 hours when the weather is decent. MN to TX is a good LTL lane, too. A lot of MN carriers don't like to run to TX because you can't get back.

I'd say to pick a lane and stick with it to build a reputation and contacts. I'd stay out of the SE or the EC as the rates usually suck.

 

It's not to hard to get those same rates out of the Omaha area down to Texas. Coming back this way...fugetaboutit.
I'll go down there and maybe find something in LA or even TX going to Chicagoland and then from there can swing back to the Omaha area.