It is better to Deadhead than take cheap freight

There will probably never be enough people to stop pulling those loads to cause the rates to go up in any dramatic fashion. Thing is, there's an overabundance of trucks to a significantly smaller amount of available loads in that market. If I, for instance, offered the same DPM on the same miles out of Florida as I do on some of my OB Chicago freight, the phone lines in the office wouldn't stop ringing for ten minutes straight - they pay over twice the average of what FL is getting right now. If the reverse were true, I'd never move a single load OB Chicago. The situations are flipped.

 

I understand. I guess some of us are just naive and optimistic that somehow a positive change could be made.

 

Great example. If you bounce back you reload a good load in tn the very next morning. If you grab a cheap load from Florida that good load is gone before you can get you it.

 

Now show me your net not your gross

 

Understandable. That said, there are exceptions to every rule. I think @boredsocial has produce coming out of Florida at least part of the year, paying pretty decently. That said, it's just the nature of Florida. There's not a lot being made there, and they consume a lot of incoming freight. It doesn't necessarily balance out to an even market.

 

That's what happens every spring when produce comes in. Those $1 a mile rates then rise accordingly.

This is the fall. It's not reality to think that everyone should agree those loads are unacceptable. Fact is some carriers need those loads and they are going to move regardless what any of us thinks.

 

I wish that was the case this time. Tomorrow is Friday and I won't be empty until noon. I don't work on weekends and I don't camp,out in truck stops either. Time to go home and start over next week recharged & refreshed.

 

It still works. You will be home friday late night reasy to get a good load Monday morning vs having dirt cheap freight keeping you tied yo all weekend.

 

I agree less than $1.50 is impossible to sustain. But from there it starts a grey area up to + $4 x mile. That grey area is the problem. And I think that again is all relative. Whatever works for you in the long run.