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"Slim Pickins" Getting Out Of Cali

Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by Working Class Patriot, Oct 29, 2013.

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  1. Oct 29, 2013 #1
    Working Class Patriot

    Working Class Patriot Road Train Member

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    Well....It looks like we're back in 2008.....Or as Yogi Berra was famous for saying...."It's Deja Vu all over again!!"....


    All of my "Directs" are dry....Load boards are low....And what's available....Pays for Crap!!!!....Like L.A. to Denver loads for FB paying $1200 on a Full Load...........Not good...Not good......


    Only thing I can figure....It's slow for the Megas and they're pulling off the Boards.....
     
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  3. Oct 29, 2013 #2
    DeltaKilo

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    Maybe it's just me, but never had any luck whatsoever in Cali...i stay east of Colorado exclusively now. That, and the fact that my rig is not CARB-worthy
     
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    Working Class Patriot

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    I haven't seen it this bad since '08......Something's going on though........
    A Boycott on Loads to and from Cali because of CARB 2014 perhaps?

    Naw....Nobody could be that mad.....
     
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    Working Class Patriot

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    Watching those "$1/m" loads get taken on the boards....

    People are taking anything now just to move.......:biggrin_2552:
     
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  7. Oct 29, 2013 #5
    NoCoCraig

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    They always will, there are guys in Cali who run almost exclusively at $1.10 a mile. Until they run out of capital. Then they will blame everything but themselves for their bankruptcy.
    Just call any broker and they will tell you. "I move ten of these loads every day at this rate"
     
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  8. Oct 29, 2013 #6
    Working Class Patriot

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    Just got off the phone with a broker who called me up...
    Best they could do was $1.90/m on an 8' high tarped lumber load......With two picks and 4 drops....

    Should I take it?.....












    Nope.....I don't pay people to take their ##### loads for them....:biggrin_2552:
     
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    Working Class Patriot

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    $1500 to go to (One pick-Three drops) Portland.........Nope....Too cheap......

    I'll keep on looking....
     
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  10. Oct 29, 2013 #8
    Working Class Patriot

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    Wow......UTI won't budge....Neither will TQL.........

    Maybe they both think fuel is "Free"........
     
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  11. Oct 29, 2013 #9
    DeltaKilo

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    UTi and TQL...might as well call CHR
     
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  12. Oct 29, 2013 #10
    DeltaKilo

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    That was a joke, fyi
     
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