How to temporarily shut down?

The beauty of trucking of any kind is does not matter what happens in life, good or bad. When if you park it a while, and are still standing, have back at it. Fire it up and roll on. It will not be as before. But you will be back at it.

The rest of it is a form of vanity and piles of red tape. Plus a industry that really does not care as long they get a truck load moved and they get paid. It is what it is. If you have to park it and go home, then do it. When better days are here then have at it.

Its way better than trying to run a tavern, bar and a store. IF that stopped (And it did for sure now...) it probably will be gone. The building will be something else someday later this year or next. But it will not be what it was before. Never again. IT costs too much to get that going again. Im just happy my family got out of it when they did 20 years ago. While the getting was good. If they were still involved in this today? Forget it. It would have destroyed them.

Essentially a albatross. Gas bill alone is 3000 a month. Electricity another 2000. and water 1600. So.... The place was paid for. Otherwise its a million dollar inventory per year. Once the looting starts in that particular part of Baltimore that inventory is all gone in less than a week. Trust me. And who holds that bag? The owner. We had our first mass shooting some blocks from there in that neighborhoold a couple of weeks ago. A couple of teen gang wannabes shot up some other children. So thats a sign of pernament change. For the worst.

 

Yeah odd mine that was such a hard time getting paid was also $350. It was actually too cheap in the 1st place because that was from Longwood, TX to Deland FL.. I'd have never taken it at that rate except for the fact I was already headed home with partial freight load and that amount got me to $2/mile for both loads and was close to my house..

As far as cars though, man I've been watching cars like a hawk lately and to me it seemed like cars were now paying better than ever. I've been shut down for 2 weeks now myself due to the CV stuff but honestly I almost made a quick trip to New Orleans on Thurs because there was a land rover paying $800 and some Honda paying $500. So $1,3k for 2 cars to go to New Orleans from Lakeland &Tampa. I've never gotten that much before on just 2 cars leaving FL. I was sort of thinking cars were where the money was right now.

Have you tried dispatching for yourself? I don't see why you can't get a solid $2+/mile right now with the set up you have. I wouldn't look at the multi car loads I'd be piecing together individual drops treat it like freight partials and hop scotch around. I think you'd be doing really good right now at the rates I was seeing even here in FL.

For the record I typically do a 100 mile search from Occoe, FL when I'm looking for loads leaving FL because I'm 30 mins from that auction and 10 mins from the Sanford Auction. With my normal 100 mile search and selecting .70/mile I see 34 cars listed on a Sunday.. I do this search all the time and this is the most cars I've ever seen at .70/mile. usually it's 10 at best. In most cases I have to drop down to .55 to get enough listings to try to piece something together if I leave FL with 2 cars.

If you aren't looking at the load boards yourself and just using a dispatcher , seriously consider doing it yourself. A dispatcher is just going to get you the easiest load at the best rate he can but he's almost never gonna sit on that board and keep watching it to find the best load. That's why I wont use a dispatcher and do it for myself because I know no one is gonna spend the time I do trying to find the best loads for myself.

BTW have you thought about leasing on to another company for a bit? I'm sure with your set up you'd be able to lease on to a bigger company and stay busy.

 

Heh.. and here I thought after this people would want to run away from NYC..

 

Working with a guy you trust makes everything much easier. I assume he will bring you into contact with direct shippers eventually if not you will.

 

Couldn’t pay me enough to live in the boroughs again. Or Jersey for that matter.