How to Choose Productive Lanes Year Round.

The most profitable are regional loads based on the season.
The coast to coast are the least profitable, unless you are willing to deal with partials.

 

Coast to Coast runs only work great for company drivers, to much time involved. Sometimes you’ll have a check on paper, but passed the cutoff date.

 

Coast to Coast runs being o.o no way. You aren't nowhere near maximizing profit that way

 

You need to lose the company driver mentality, it’s not about how many miles it’s about dollars.

 

I would not touch texas as an owner op

 

Coast to coast has been good lately but that’s rare. Competing with rail is a loser for trucks during normal times. IMO.

 

I also enjoy the coast to coast runs. I'm flatbed and feel that I lose to much time off my clock between DH and securement to do short hops. I've not been an OO long enough to know what it's like to run in a bad market though so like I heard others say, "it's easy to look like a genius when everything is paying top dollar."

 

How long have you been solo?

 

Im out of TX and I would say TX is more of a outbound state , Laredo and Dallas , Houston can be profitable . There is some good regional coming out of TX and of course border and port loads headed north arent to bad .