flatbed rates out of KY going East????

$4-6 per mile, it's getting hot out here. After the Labor Day we gonna see the best season in many years

 

Yea, you better not cut yourself short going up that way. Especially having to tarp.

 

Not all, but most lumber shippers don't pay enough to put their product on my truck. Lumber is best left to TMC, Melton and Maverick. Especially if it has to be tarped.

 

Lexington, KY market is showing 137 loads to 1 truck in flatbed segment 3,565 loads to 26 trucks as of yesterday. Looks like you can be charging whatever you want with an imbalance like that. That lumber ought to be paying high dollar. If it isn't then it shouldn't be too hard to find something that is.

 

Call the guys, it's the brokerage side for my company, we have lots of freight going all over, with a yard in Cincinnati

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Yesterday's info.

Louisville Mkt
L/T - Flatbeds : 103.8
Loads in area : 1,869
Trucks in area : 18


Bowling Green Mkt
L/T - Flatbeds : 101.1
Loads in area : 1,415
Trucks in area : 14


Lexington Mkt
L/T - Flatbeds : 137.1
Loads in area : 3,565
Trucks in area : 26

 

No less than 4 a mile cuz that's what dry boxes are commanding up here.

Where my dads leased to they do a lot of plastic pipe. Most people think it doesn't pay but after the carriers cut my dad still gets 4.05-4.20ish and fsc. All short hauls 300mi max and come home empty.

Don't short sell yourself I know a brokerage pushing 6000 lb van loads 330 mi to ayres ma from Nichols ny for 1500 a rip. As many as you can handle

 

Tmc and Melton get pipe from national pipe in vestal ny as a backhaul yet it goes on our trucks. You want quality service you gon pay. My dads carrier has the highest rates in our little area. Been in business since early 70s and runs a tight ship. Used to be mostly o/o union steel haulers back in the 80s 90s