Flatbed LTL or inter-modal??

I wish i had some info for you. On a side note, i wish there were more Flatbed LTL outfits out here. We haul steel in vans that clearly belongs on a flatbed as well as other flatbed freight. it can be a PIA to get some of that stuff unloaded, but no flatbed carrier is willing to run LTL type of deliveries up here.

 

I wouldn't get too locked into an idea of what you are going to do concerning LTL vs. full or working for certain brokers vs. others. You just have to wake up each day (hopefully !) and look at what opportunities are there at that time. TANG, TANG, TANG !! THERE ARE NO GUARANTEES IN THIS BUSINESS !!

partials can be okay, I usually try to find one that is paying good before I even consider it though. Then I try to find one or two more to add. You'll find often that partial shippers/brokers think if it's 1/3 of a load it should pay 1/3 as much. That really doesn't add up when you consider the additional time and effort it takes. Like I said if you can find one paying well, and then you see you have several more along route to choose from you can do pretty well. It really doesn't happen that often though. I'll give you an example the load I delivered yesterday I got a good rate on a military truck from Davenport, IA to Baltimore, MD. I thought I had a forklift lined up to go with it, but at the last minute they backed out, said the shipper decided to send it to Florida port instead ! Now, I was lucky, I found an ambulance to pick up in IN that also paid well and did well on this load. But without finding that load at the last minute I would have been screwed big time.

 

Go flatbed or Ltl