Can you make it running load boards

I hear this topic allot and it's always a mixed result . The question still remains though in today's market can a person soley rely on load boards ( and there's lots of them ) to run your business on ? There are so many factors that weigh in that leaves one to wonder if a person can do this with out direct freight and make it .

1. Credit ratings Of brokers
2. Equipment needs & costs
3. days to pay

I just posted this as a general topic to see what the consensus is out there .

 

Yes.....

In addition to going direct.....
In addition to calling the brokers outright......

Anything you can do to augment your business is a good thing......

 

In a nutshell, yes.

Working with a couple guys and they are doing very well working the load boards. It's getting to the point now after a while for one, they aren't on the load board so much as the brokers are calling them now.

Reputations and work ethics get built and if they like you, they start to want to keep you running with their stuff making them money.

 

We run only what we find on load boards. Averaging $4k gross per week right now on around 1800 miles.

 

That's awesome revenue

 

Personally I like the following and they are in order I like them

1. Get loaded
2. ITS
3. Landstar
4. CHR

This is in ref to the interface and freight base each provides

 

We run dry van; I prefer Truckstop, my boss likes 123loadboard. Sometimes I'll check Landstar, but those loads frequently show up on truckstop. And of course, there's the 'company' load boards (manufacturers that post their loads on their own sites) that you can find when you go digging around a bit.

 

Yeah .. I hear ya ..

Those Company load boards sound like they could be little gold mines sometimes from what I've heard

 

123 is not a DAT board is it ?

 

I'm not sure if it is or not.

I just figured last week's miles (7 days, didn't take a reset) - 2375, 495 of which was deadhead, 4 loads hauled, all northeast. Total revenue to the truck was $4675.00

DH miles are a bit high, percentage wise, but we'd rather bounce empty than haul cheap. So that's just under $2 / mile for all miles, or $2.49 per loaded mile. All from load boards.