flatbed rate: how much it is now

On average the rates are around 2.4% higher than last July--but for the whole U.S. US flatbed demand is similar to last year’s. Obviously lanes vary, the wet and cool weather in the spring pushed a lot of construction projects up so some lanes in the affected areas may experience higher demand. Unfortunately, diesel prices rose by 2.7% compared to July 2012, so whoever operates in the area that has the same or lower demand than last year will notice decreasing profits.

 

like everything else, flat bed rates are all over the board, from great to holy cow cheap. it varies by market to market and commodity to commodity.

 

work for landstar and find a load headed to texas, texas has tons of loads everyday and they pay lots of money, reefer pays a lot lower than flatbed but the benefit is that reefers can be used as dry van, but the better benefit with flatbed is that you don't gotta back into loading docks, you park out in the open

 

even better benefit of flatbed. an extra 40 cents per mile in revenue. easily 40.

 

if you get an extendable flatbed some of the loads on landstars load board, pay $27 a mile in texas

 

not if you work for landstar inway, the pay is great.. sure they take 25% but they do all the bidding and the loads come from their agencies so you always get paid if you turn in your paperwork. usually I charge at least $3.20 per mile to make profit after the 25% deduction and then a 30% deduction for tax. which is 1.68 per mile after wards.

 

reefer and van rates average $1.60 per mile while with flatbed I make $3.20 per mile minimum

 

So I understand Landstar is good for getting freight for flatbed. is loadlink board good to get load ?

 

right now I am driving reefer. What lanes are good?

 

Flatbed can also be used as a dryvan sir