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<p>[QUOTE="scottied67, post: 4289803, member: 40325"]Average is in the buck fifties. </p><p><br /></p><p>I live in northern California so coming off hometime I go to the Livermore terminal and take the first load going out that is not covered. After that on the way to the next terminal, call them ahead of time and see what terminals they are re-loading out then make my choice. I shoot for 3000 miles a week. So I might go from Livermore to Seattle then see if they have a Dallas load out of there. Next week after that shoot for California either northern or southern then loop back up to Seattle. Or take a cheap run up to Chicago then shoot for California again. Get back home and take a cheap load to Charlotte or Atlanta. Stuff like that. This last time I got a good paying load from Los Angeles to Seattle and turned and burned right back to Los Angeles then deadheaded home 350 miles. </p><p><br /></p><p>Another good one I have done is getting into Detroit terminal, run out to 1st stop Denver final in Salt Lake City. Other owner ops told me to vector towards the NorthWest for good paying freight but the RR agents seem to only offer me cheap rates out of SLC going in any direction. It's gotten to the point I'd rather just stick with T2T freight anyway. Got a buck fifty out of SLC to Columbus OH. Once I got there was about 100 miles from Cuyuhoga Falls terminal or Cincinnatti terminal. Been to CLE term already so called Cinci and they were so happy for me to come down they paid me deadhead cash which was very nice.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="scottied67, post: 4289803, member: 40325"]Average is in the buck fifties. I live in northern California so coming off hometime I go to the Livermore terminal and take the first load going out that is not covered. After that on the way to the next terminal, call them ahead of time and see what terminals they are re-loading out then make my choice. I shoot for 3000 miles a week. So I might go from Livermore to Seattle then see if they have a Dallas load out of there. Next week after that shoot for California either northern or southern then loop back up to Seattle. Or take a cheap run up to Chicago then shoot for California again. Get back home and take a cheap load to Charlotte or Atlanta. Stuff like that. This last time I got a good paying load from Los Angeles to Seattle and turned and burned right back to Los Angeles then deadheaded home 350 miles. Another good one I have done is getting into Detroit terminal, run out to 1st stop Denver final in Salt Lake City. Other owner ops told me to vector towards the NorthWest for good paying freight but the RR agents seem to only offer me cheap rates out of SLC going in any direction. It's gotten to the point I'd rather just stick with T2T freight anyway. Got a buck fifty out of SLC to Columbus OH. Once I got there was about 100 miles from Cuyuhoga Falls terminal or Cincinnatti terminal. Been to CLE term already so called Cinci and they were so happy for me to come down they paid me deadhead cash which was very nice.[/QUOTE]
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