Midwest Steel Rates???

Things can't be to bad then, huh?

 

I'm just sick of ######## about it I can't change what other people do prices are crazy and people are going to move them even at $.50 a mile so the only one making money off me now is the load boards and insurance
But I'll tell you one thing when I do leave I'm staying gone for a while my wife is driving me crazy and can't get any sleep with the kids jumping on me..LOL

 

Well as far as rates go I think they can only get better...when I started doing this Les and a couple of others said that rates were low, so i am thinking after the election they should go up.

I honestly don't see LS trucks in the Indiana/Ohio Mills ... But like I said the PA agent in US Steel (Pittsburgh area) will be able to tell you better

 

Put that 454 to work

 

That old thing will never see the road again it's a tube chassis monster truck now and has a turbo on it

 

What can I say?

 

I do remember back a year and a half ago going to the Detroit area A LOT from the Chicago area and then right back with steel from Detroit. Out of Chicago would be a mix of stuff and it would vary on pay. Usually 700-1000 to the truck without F/S and the same coming right back. I would sometimes be able to leave Chicago early AM, off-load, get a reload, and be back in Chicago or that whole area that night for my delivery in the AM the next morning. Keep in mind that 700-1000 is what I was told the truck was making for my % pay so it was possibly more and that is not including the F/S. You could do well running that lane as long as the freight stayed at a constant year round which I doubt for that I would haul up to the Detroit area.

 

I am not doubting that TMC was getting those rates. I do think it is unlikely that many others would be able to do so on a consistent basis. You may be able to do $700 + FSC from Chicago/Northern IN on a fairly regular basis. I feel the market rate from Detroit to Gary would probably be closer to $500 + FSC. Those are the types of lanes where TMC would get the best rates. They focus on customers that need a lot of trucks every day and they are able to do very well in markets like this. I am assuming you were normally hauling steel, but if you had to use those big tarps that could also have something to do with it.

Just my opinion.

 

Steel was always from the Detroit area and back out to the Chicago area. Going up was sometimes steel, sometimes shingles, and sometimes insulation. 90% of what I brought back was tarped steel loads, coils usually. Like I said though the most money was in the summer usually with insulation going up and I know that freight does not stay constant year round up to that area.

I do agree Pape with the amount of trucks having available to a customer up there making the rates different for us. I would think that it would take some time but once established those rates that I saw could be done. Just have to find those customers and L/S brokers.