Freight Crunch

That has been my experience thus far. There is, however, more risk involved. You have to weigh risk/rewards and decide if it's the right road for you regardless of the sunshine blown up your arse by recruiters and Psalm-singers.

 

January is on its way. Are you ready for it?

Major change this year: we no longer contact Rapid Response or our DMs for money transfer from the maintenance account. We do this all over the QC now. I suggest you use Macro 33 to check your maintenance balance now so you will know what your limitation will be.

If you need to transfer money, Macro 33 your request and have the money sent to your settlement. Only transfer what you absolutely need to in order to cover your fixed expenses.

Right now is not the time to p*** away your maintenance reserve on a new home entertainment center you will only see twice a month. Your wife does not need 2 ct diamond earrings for Christmas if you didn't save up for them in some other way. This is a business account, to be used specifically for business purposes. Our critical time of the year is coming up. If you don't have at least $2K in your reserve, you need to up your withholding until you do. Personally, I'm not comfortable without at least $5K in there.

Assess now, save now.

 

No freight crunch now. It will start after the holidays and usually goes for about four to six weeks. It is an industry wide thing due to a number of factors: Lots of people take time off for the holidays and everybody is in stores buying stuff. After the holidays, nobody has money, so orders from retailers drops. And, everybody realizes they spent too much money for the holidays and comes back out at once. There will be a higher truck to load ratio, rates will drop a little because of the surplus trucks and there will be less freight to go around.

This is a yearly cycle. I am bringing it up now so our folks who pay attention will be more prepared for it.

 

Yeppers. Figured it's time to dig this bone up.