Flatbed shipments only travle North

Up in the northeast trees grow slower and there is less land available for logging. Nobody has the large tracts they want or are willing to cut the trees off of.

 

Certain regions of the country are resource rich.
These resources move toward areas of higher population and consumption.

Trees grow faster and in larger quantities in the southeastern United States than they do in the northeast.
It's really no mystery.

Or maybe it's a giant conspiracy that no maple syrup is shipped northward...
WHAT's up with THAT?

 

I think those 1,000 loads are really only 250 posted by 4 different brokers.

 

LOL. That's experience talkin right there.

 

My experience...while Ill admit most loads go north or west when Im north of the Carolinas(where I like to run). But In the past almost 6 years when I do get north of here, I always get a load south.....never have ran north or west.....And I have hauled 1 load of lumber the past 6 years(load of lumber out of Boston to Lexington NC)

 

Tennessee doesn't have a lot of industry. There is some, but not like there use to be.

What you have to do is create a triangle. It will normally take a week to run a triangle a and your guys will be at home every weekend. Go from North Carolina to Gary, Indiana/Chicago to South Carolina.