From my very early observations it appears to me if you want to stay regional you will find consistency. Trying to find a home run on that 2000 mile run isn't bound to happen often enough to make that your bread and butter.
Personally I like to run regional and then when I get sick of it I will take a longer haul out and run another region. I may have to sacrifice rate on that longer haul but as long as it isn't below my bare minimum rate and it puts me in a good market it's a wash.
Picking my own freight baby! My journey to & of being on Schneider choice, the Adventure & Numbers!
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I just got off the phone with my friend at Landstar and man....
From what I'm seeing/hearing the spot market is taking a dump. -
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The best way to explain is probably using examples...
This is the way I understand.. so if I'm wrong anyone feel free to correct me.
Here recently oh 6 months ago or so Schneider won a bid on a big account.
Schneider made a big announcement about it.. I think the drivers here know whom I'm talking about.
So basically that means Schneider is under contract at a specific rate to haul their loads for however long the contract is for. No matter if the freight market goes up or down in rates basically that rate is locked in besides the FSC.
So as a driver you can expect that account to pretty much be pumping out the same loads weekly and the rate is always the same except for the FSC.
Many of the loads I've done are in this category because it helps me stay in profitable predictable lanes.
That is a benefit of being leased onto a carrier with contract freight with customers.
A spot market example would be a random load being brokered out say to Schneider to move because another carrier couldn't get it covered or the broker failed at moving it for cheap and needs it covered asap etc etc.
So that rate could be anything depending on market conditions, load to truck ratio, urgency etc etc.
I once did a load from Rochester to Memphis that was pretty much my best paying load ever out of the Northeast.
On the bills it actually said CH Robinson on it.
Never saw that load ever again...
So that was probably Cheap and Heavy Robbingson failing at moving it for cheap and resorted to coming to Schneider to get it covered.
Overall freight is down, and spot market is sucking.
Which really sucks if you rely on brokers and working the spot market.
There many tools out there showing what's going.
Here's a couple tidbits:
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