Current flatbed rates

Do you have the Truckloads app? If not then download the free app. Plug in your search features and many loads have advertised rates. I just checked Detroit loads for 48' flat with maximum 50 deadhead and it looks like there's plenty of loads in the $1.70 to $2.00 range.

 

That's pretty darn cheap for that area. Just more evidence that public load boards, especially the free ones, rarely have a load paying good enough to haul.

 

Yes, MI is really really bad right now, but IN is all right

 

Somebody said $1.27 ? aysm won't put key in door less than $2 mile and that's gps or door to door Higher for stupids.
Hey any body know the right way to figure fuel surcharge? kitty power

 

Posted rates are a lousy way to determine what an area is like. The reason brokers post rates on loads is to cover them quickly and as cheaply as possible. That price being posted on there has the desired effect (for the broker anyway) of giving potential carriers the mindset that "OK that is the posted price and there is no negotiation". Most people looking for loads love to see prices already on them and will book them up quickly when the rate is posted.

 

im my experience, 6 mpg and doe region prices are the most common.

 

Had to correct that for ya. Hope ya don't mind.

 

Yeah that's about the gist of it lol...