Step Decking in MI

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  1. Oct 24, 2015 #1
    SheepDog

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    As some may know, I have moved back to MI for reasons out of my control, well not really out of my control. It was either agree or leave the wife of 28 years....

    Anyway, I have never thought about creating this thread until now so, here it goes...
    I have found an Amish company near the house that will pay me $2 a mile to run pallet material down to Chicago area but, from there I just fall back into the humdrum of trying to find good paying freight to anywhere. Because I find my own loads, off ITS, I have no time to find direct freight, or very little anyway.

    My question; can a step make descent money every week, just running in MI? I don't see it myself but, maybe someone knows something I don't. All I see is the load board.....depressing..
     
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  3. Oct 24, 2015 #2
    barroll

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    In Michigan? It'd make things a lot harder than running out of Michigan. Which part of the state are you in?
     
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  4. Oct 24, 2015 #3
    SheepDog

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    I live north of GR about 35 miles... I can get a load out of the area going to Chicago but,,,trying real hard to get back every weekend.
     
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  5. Oct 24, 2015 #4
    barroll

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    Might have better luck hitting Chicago, running to IN or OH, then heading back to GR, especially if you can haul over 52'.
     
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  7. Oct 24, 2015 #5
    xsetra

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    Good luck in Michigan. That is a hard state to find decent loads. Lot of cheap tarp wood loads. Unless you go over to Detroit. If your trying to get home every weekend. I would think you would have a lot of empty miles getting a round trip.
    I see a lot of loads out of Chicago going anywhere but Michigan.
    I would put a search from anywhere to your home base. then book a load to that return load.
    Good luck.
     
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  8. Oct 24, 2015 #6
    Hurst

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    Wish I could help... how ever.. I dont think I've ever done more than 9 or 10 loads in and out of Mi. 3 of those were Crane pads I picked up in Ky that went way up to north Mi. I dead headed out. Only good paying loads I ever got out was from Sturgis picking up UPS vans. They have a loading dock... but you will need ramps to unload.

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  9. Oct 24, 2015 #7
    HalpinUout

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    I'm not an O/O but have looked heavy into it... I'm sure its possible to get loads within the Midwest around Michigan... Maybe have to seek how D/H from say gary area back to your home would be and do the math...
     
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  10. Oct 24, 2015 #8
    barroll

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    Usually when I'm up around Grand Rapids I'll bounce to Hersey for salt out of Cargill, or South Bend for steel. If you've already got a load out you're doing great. Most of the runs I find back into Michigan come from Cleveland and Dayton, as well as plenty of aluminum out of Kentucky running to Niles, Cassopolis, and Kalamazoo (my favorite since they're 24/6 and no tarp all year) almost every day.
     
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