Freight Slowing down during the winter?

Freight is always slower in the winter for me. If you’re flatbed it’s much worse. I try to work nonstop in summer and take off from thanksgiving to January.

 

If you pull a dry van for a large trucking company you are hauling general freight. Much of the loads will be for major retailers. About 50% of retail sales are in the fourth quarter (October through December). The first quarter (January through March) is always the slowest.

If you want to stay with pulling a dry van, expect the need to be patient and tighten your belt during the first quarter. Sock away some money when you run your ### off.

If you want to have more steady income year round, start researching alternatives. There's been some good suggestions, like hauling milk or fuel. Cows gotta be milked twice a day. Gas stations gotta have gas. Folks gotta eat.

 

and that all depends how flexible you and or your company is last January was a very good month for me but in general all frieght slows down flat bed the most and reefer not so much because food is a 12 month buisness a little bit slow in the winter but do not freeze loads take up a lot of the slack .... retail and con sumer goods slow way down to almost nothing for first couple of months. other van frieght doesn't slow much but the influx of trucks due to consumer frieght slowdown brings rates down ....... now the big thing is there is frieght every where but it doesn't cost your company much of anything to have you sit and wait for a load that they can make more money on or something to take you where you are needed. I don't sit ever well unless I am taking a day off at someplace nice south Florida, Vegas etc. ... I probably should sit a little bit but never could stand it . so if there's nothing happening where I am I go to where I can get $$$$ paying load

 

General Freight usually slows around Christmas. Till spring when all the produce starts. Meanwhile too many reefers cutting my dry van rates. Lol

 

Right. 500 Russian owned fly-by-night carriers based in Chicagoland alone and a hundred mega dry van outfits have nothing to do with that? Okay

 

Its all because of Reefers hauling too cheap in off season LOL. Seriously when stuff starts coming out of the ground Supply and Demand Drive My Rates up. As all are busy. I can’t wait till spring when they get out of my hair(what’s left of it) . Russians? They’re rates are always high LOL!!

 

500? Maybe 5000!! Pass the Vodka

 

We’re a little slower until the first of the year when the new contracts come out.

 

I wouldn't haul 90 cent frieght out of nj just to get back to California but the shirkas don't mind . check the rates out going to Chicago area for Friday delivery then check out the rates for Monday or Tuesday that shows you the impact of the Russians. .... reefers do bring the rates down for vans in a lot of places such as the east coast. ..... and stuff going out to the meat patch .... which doesn't matter as much cause ain't much coming out of there ... plus reefers take up space at truck stops. that are needed for other people.

 

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