How do I stop running empty?

I had a 100% guaranteed system for not running MT. I booked a load.

Sorry, couldn't resist.

 

try to load into a load. try and avoid dead areas, such as denver, or lewiston idaho. you can pull a cheap load to a place you can load a good load out of. i know the cheap load haters will howl about that, but sometimes you can come out ahead rather than just sitting. just try and make the cheap load as short as possible. lots of luck

 

" but it probably only pays 50 cents per mile."

Where do you dream this stuff up

 

A lot depends on your personal objectives. If you want to run out and back and a lot of home time you will probably deadhead more. If you just want to run where the best paying loads go you won't deadhead as much but you won't be able to manage your hometime as well. I used to run to northwestern US and then take loads going to California and then try to get home. A lot of other guys wanted to go out and back and usually got cheap loads or deadheaded a lot . I think in today's market if you stay in the central US and midwest in particular you can stay loaded at pretty decent rates. But there will always be deadhead, a lot of really good paying loads go to areas where there is little freight

 

ummm, i c loads ALL THE TIME for 50 cents.

come play out here in the west. and your eyes will open up.

2 weeks ago. someone 10 miles south of home was sending LTL'S to areas around the jacksonville florida.

T H R E E H U N D R E D D O L L A R S. each.

 

Quit with your out west whining. Thousands of truckers are out west and do just fine. I was there a couple weeks ago and had zero problems finding a very good paying load east.

Edit: I'll add that I had the choice of 4 loads headed east that would fall into most peoples definition of good paying loads. Two to SC, one to NC, and one to ND. They are out there you just have to be smart enough to find them.

 

$800 for 1800 miles.

$275 for 932 miles.

$300 for 1032 miles.

2 of them are LTL'S. one of them is LTL weighing 40,000 lbs.

$700 for 800 miles. 10 ft wide. 30 feet long.

new york state. $1.40 per mile to cali. OVERSIZED.

then there's $2 per mile. by the time you got those 5 drops off. the miles comes to FIFTY CENTS.

see that crap ALL THE TIME.

 

yep, and one dude on here posted he deadheaded home after looking for 3 days.

 

Lots of dudes don't know what they are doing.

 

come play out here in the west. and your eyes will open up.
Sorry SNOWY but as I have trucks running all over NORTH AMERICA ( and not at $0.50 / mile ) I do not call it playing. Maybe its time you need to stop playing WANABEE TRUCKER in your lease to own KW.