Holidays Suck for Transport

Wonder over to the other side. Because I make an observation of a load I brokered for a good customer I am now an evil broker.

 

The holidays are a rare time that the carrier that's not parked at home waiting for Santa has all the leverage in the world. Suck it up sister! LOL You'll be back to your usual grind on Jan 2.

Merry Christmas BTW!

 

who are you working for LS and do they accept students who are to recently graduate?

 

Better have snow skis on your truck, lol.

 

how about he works for Landstaaaaaaaar LANDSTAR L=LAND S=STAR

 

Its just like real estate. If the money was right someone would take it Holiday or not. This is typical broker bs till you get it loaded. Track record get everything done. And it does matter what a broker offer if the truckers know they wont get the full amount.The companies either do not believe you, or your too cheep. The only answer. There's enough of us that will haul anything anywhere if the money is right and we know the money is good.

 

I have my truck posted right now if the money is there I'll head out at sunrise but I'll be #### if I'm eating Christmas dinner at a truck stop for $1.50/mile did get a good offer Friday on a oversize but what can you do with that 4 days of waiting and traffic Friday was stupid bad

 

I drove through IL/WI before the storm really hit. I live in this stuff and cut my teeth on Old Man winter when I first started to drive 20 some years ago. Scares the hell out of me each and every snow fall too.

 

I have the opposite problem. I'm looking for van loads that pick up near Dallas on the 26th, going east. Plenty of $1.50/mile loads that I won't touch. I'll deadhead to Tulsa or OKC before I haul at that rate.

Broker has 45k van load posted to PA, 1400 miles at $1.71/mile picking up on the 26th and delivering ASAP. I call and tell him I'm looking for $2/mile. Without hesitation he tells me to keep looking and hangs up.

 

and figure in your dead head, what's it pay a running mile then?

stop being myoptic and looking at the single load and look at what it's paid since you left the house. All revenue for all miles driven. Loaded and empty.

Example of what I am talking about. My actual runs since Dec 10th when I went to PA/NH/NJ/NY/WV.


Heck no I wasn't happy when I took those last two loads. They sucked a lot of good money out of the rest of the week.

But they also allowed me to be home with my family for the holiday period and all the rest of the stuff I wanted to do.

Overall for 2 weeks, all miles in an average of $2 / mile, that's not bad.