Rates are crashing and fuel to the moon!

Chicago-LA lanes often mean intermodal freight. Many of these loads are scooped, "consolidated" and put on a train - would not be surprised if those trailers weighed more than 70K lbs. That was pretty much at that level ever since I've had accessed to DAT. In times of produce harvesting, it was not uncommon for Chicago reefers deadhead empty to CA to load produce there...or anything heading that way. It's been always a sort of anomaly, for example, I can still see, Chicago-Denver,CO or SLC, UT offered at $3-4K.

 

One of them grumbled a little but just ended up putting everything on the spot market, so fair is fair on that end. The other one raised holy hell though, and threatened to fire us as a carrier. Pretty disappointed with that one.

 

And offered rates are many times not what the actual rate ends up being.

 

Best example is JB Hunts' 360 or XPO....even I say that what they offer there is no more, no less insane.

 

Too good to be true in today's post 2021 golden year times. If it were that good, no advertisement like that would be needed, the word would be out and a long waiting to sign up list would be formed instead. But what the heck... Perhaps, worth checking out, especially for those with newly obtained equipment and not exactly knowing what to do but in order not to be too disappointed I would not hold my breath.
I wish those recruiters could be somehow held accountable for what they say in their solicitation ads.

 

I'm not either I was just pointing out the deal.

 

Like I said. It sounds interesting. However the devil is in the details. It may not be real or it may be legit. It is after all hazmat work. And I’m sure they expect more than 50,000 miles a year. But if someone is struggling now it may be worth a look see.

 

I found this https://www.bubbajunk.com/trucking-news/detail/Sherwin_Williams_OO?site=fullfle which says they are paying $1.01 per mile plus .88 cents fuel surcharge but not sure how old that info is. But I was doing a search several days ago and could swear the base rate was much higher than that and the surcharge bumped it several cents over 2 bucks. According to their info Drivers you can run as little as 2,000 miles a week or 3,200 it is no forced dispatch.

 

I do know the company drivers there do just as well as Walmart drivers. I don’t think anyone would work for that rate.