freight

That depends what you pulling...u made it sound it's been so slow every truck been sitting

 

I pull 53ft dryvan. I've been averaging right around 1.85 for all miles. Not the best ever, but I don't have payments on truck or trailer so I'm profiting. Also I've only been driving for 2.5 months...doing self dispatch for the last month. Just getting the hang of stringing my loads together to maximize profit and minimize deadhead. By next month I should have my average up around 2.15 to 2.20

 

Note to self: Don't even say it.

 

Sounds like your doing pretty good.

 

Slow?

Look into the truckstops. If the lot is empty it's good freight. Or a bad food place.

If everyone is laying around the lot and waiting on the phones at the tables then freight is bad.

Slow is when you either go home for a few months of winter from Oct to March 1 when the whole country slows down for the holidays or dip into your savings to rest and wait a while until the freight turns up and it will.

There is a number of shipping websites, through them there is a few hundred waiting to unload off the California coast. Ultimately that freight will either cross the USA on the rail land bridge to reload for europe on the east coast or get delivered into distribution warehouses for shipment to the Nation.

Some freight is never slow. Government is one, Military is another. And there is certain very special loads like McKesson, Narcotics that go to hospitals via distribution centers. Our Nation aging drives the freight of that kind. And coils and so on for flatbeds are always busy.

 

Not only the number of loads that drives the market but also the number of trucks in the market. When the snow goes away all the sudden more part-time truckers want to work again.

SMH