To sell out or not to sell out.

There’s a lot of variables .

and you left most of them out of your post.

you have your own MC ?
Leased to someone else using their Mc?

using their dispatchers ?
Find your own freight or using load boards ?

If you’re using brokers to find freight you’re always gonna be broke.
It’s built into the name .
The brokers always always always steal the good money off the top and lie a bit how much the load pays .
The broker is making more money off the load sitting in their cushy chair in front of a computer screen than you are.

 

No it’s not worth jump on the spot market at this point.

 

Love how some of the local places would rather cut production then up rates, I actually have a brand new dump trailer in the yard this year that I can count how many days I’ve ran on for similar reasons when another place had a project fall apart

might be worth seeing if you can talk to your customer to get a flat and haul some of their lumber out bound, I wouldn’t bother with the spot market though.

 

I have my own authority and no direct customers- so I search load boards.... I can say that the rates on the spot market are not sustainable for me- with the rates so low and fuel so high, it's basically hoping my truck has zero issues, because ANY issue with the truck would put me in the hole. It use to be when I ran a load, a quarter of the load pay would be fuel, then half to the truck and half to me- Now it's half (if I'm lucky) to 3 quarters for fuel and the rest mainly to the truck for insurance, dot bs etc. I'm lucky because everything I own is paid for and I have rental properties, so I've been parking my truck a lot the last month or two, because I refuse to run at cost for these people.

 

#### log truck rates have crashed too.

 

With interest/mortgage rates going higher and higher there is and will be less demand for wood for building, along with other building products.

I do flatbed and I see and hear it directly from shippers.
So I would assume hauling wood is doomed for a while.

If you are cool with $2 a mile with $6 fuel then head out on the road.

 

I have a friend on Florida who works for a big wood company. They make trusses and wood floors. Laid off 300 + employees in last 2 weeks.