Dry van freight out west

@Dave_in_AZ would be your hook up

 

@Scooter Jones

 

When thinking about lanes a few things to consider.
What is the location?
Is it a high consumer area. In that a lot of goods go in to supply the local population, but very little comes out. Or what does come out has a very narrow range of products.
Is it a high production area, where a lot of raw materials go in and finished goods come out. This does not always translate to a good market. This location could be dependent on a small employment and population base.
Then you have places where the local economy is fairly balanced good consumer demand as well as production.

Shifts do take place. Over time a location can go from one type to any other. Las Vegas comes to mind. At one time it was a very high consumer only, very little out. Now it still in a primary consumer location, with production becoming more diversified and more freight out.

 

Portland is like Seattle or Denver except Denver has a ton of freight.
Tucson ok in ok out , close to Nogales . Border loads .
Boise is ok to get into , a little deadhead sometimes to get out .
Vegas ok
Reno good in , no so much going out
Flagstaff good in , Might get you a heavy load of puppy chow out .
Dont forget Saltlake, ogden, provo - sporting goods , onions , costco and Wally world loads.
Grantsville heavy salt loads
Albuquerque good in not so great out
Produce loads in Farmington-Seasonl

 

First, I have no current knowledge of rates or anything out west. But what a friend of mine was doing a couple years ago was he’d get a load into Portland or Seattle and then sometimes he would end up taking a load out to say SLC, Eastern WA/North ID/Western MT area, or Eastern ID and then reloading another one to get back farther east. Most times that made him more money because a lot of guys were wanting the long ones coming off the coast.

Just something to think about when you’re looking to put a run together.

 

Western U.S.

Mountains, DOT. Go south young man. Go south.

 

I can speak on the freight going out of Cali and Portland. The main areas in Cali are Sacramento / Bay area for the central valley. LA/ Ontario area for the south valley. Basically I-80 and I-10. Not really worth going out of those areas to get freight. There is a lot of freight from those areas up and down the I-5 corridor (my running area with curtain van) so getting a load to or from Seattle or Portland or LA/Sac/Bay is pretty easy. So you can come into any of those areas and get a load north or south and head east from there.

East to Seattle or Portland then south to Sacramento/Bay area/ LA then back east or the other way of course. I haul a lot of beer, wine, or dry foods from the bay area but do flatbed south. I run from Seattle to the Bay area and back on the 5 primarily with the occasional load to LA.

 

Follow @Dave_in_AZ. advice. Go south young man

 

When running the NW don't forget high fuel prices, Oregon permits and about $0.22 per mile charge. Seattle Tacoma pretty much no truck parking. I did some power only work for ArcBest out of Sparks, NV and they have tons of freight to the Northwest and back. Also watch the I-5 corridor in Washington around Kelso. The Port of Entry has been closed due to remodel and all those guys are out on the road now.