Picking my own freight baby! My journey to & of being on Schneider choice, the Adventure & Numbers!

Well your truck was running fine till they worked on it right? I say they messed it up.

 

The problem isn't rates for me, it's there's a lot less loads.
Anddddd for me being there's less loads I'm being forced to run longer loads more often and longer loads pay less. It's becoming more difficult to string together short loads.
When a good load pops up it's gone in seconds. Yeah some will say it was always like that but it's gotten to the extreme.
I'm seeing $1.50 loads going to New England fly off the board... I never seen it that bad.
I got lucky and scored the best load I think I ever had this week but I got it the moment it popped up.
I still see and do a lot of the same loads I've done since I've been here and the rate has not changed besides the FSC however there's even a lot less those same loads.
While it's worse here it's really terrible elsewhere.
Landstar is Landstarve right now.. all that broker/spot market crap has really taken a drive in general and especially there from what I'm seeing and hearing from drivers.
If some other place is better I'd take my truck there but there is no better place to lease onto unless I wanted to do flatbed which ain't happening. I beach and others beach about things here but it's even more awful elsewhere now. Those who don't believe it, do your homework!
There's just no freight, Schneider cutting back on hiring and taking away referrals proves how bad things have gotten. A mega carrier saying no to drivers!?! I mean really lol.
T-Trucker I saw you on that Celadon lease thread, that dudes first three loads were $1.23, $1.13 and $1.51. That $1.51 went to Oklahoma btw
So that's crap right there imo.
Some dude posted earlier on this thread who's pulling a Reefer currently for $0.90 plus FSC (which is barely nothing now).
Guy from Roehl posted here earlier saying he's running for $1.25
All trash........
Those are just a few recent examples of what other drivers are doing just from this forum.
All of which in my opinion sucks. I wouldn't want to pay and run a truck for no $1.20 something, nope ain't happening.

Here's a quote from the Wall Street Journal today..


“The spot market is as weak as I’ve seen it, and capacity is as available as I’ve seen it in 10 years,” said Clay Gentry, a vice president with North Carolina-based Transportation Insight. “It’s that easy to cover freight. It’s very much a shipper’s market as of now.”

Says it all right there

http://www.wsj.com/articles/truck-freight-rates-slide-in-softening-spot-market-1457550300

All I can is hope for the best.
I'm still doing well but those $2+ all miles weeks are pretty much over with now. Oh how i miss the good times.

 

I use to be able to a little bit earn more in the Northeast than Midwest even though I mostly ran midwest by choice.
I didn't say the midwest has gotten better, I'm saying Northeast regional has degenerated faster than the midwest. Just my opinion from what I see.