Truck Load Rates Halt 8 Week Slide 2.0

Less that and more a ton of inbound freight to support those major metropolitan areas, with less outbound coming out of there. The Northeast, in particular, is bad for this.

 

Calling all White Volvo mafia, head west. lol

Actually Dave would be proud, booked that monster load out of LA through LS.

I personally don’t see things slowing down anytime soon. Not in 2020 anyway. But, higher the peak, lower the valley when the time comes.

 

Mostly ignored I’ve witnessed several Canucks doing that.

 

Interesting. I haven't seen that on my end, I'm not interested in catching a regulatory shafting even if everyone else is ignoring it. I've had one guy offer to do it in the past few years, and I told him to kick rocks.

 

In the PNW, there are a lot of full trucks heading south and east, but they don't have those loads on the boards. Most of the apples and pears consumed in the US are grown in eastern Washington, and I've hauled a handful of those loads, but you never see any of them on the load boards, or hear from brokers looking for carriers. I work with only one broker, and I haul a lot of beer. He tells me that there are just as many southbound loads as northbound, but everything heading south is locked up under contracts and he doesn't have access to them. I have two contract clients for southbound freight, but I make good money on them and they aren't interested in working with brokers.

It seems like there is some kind of mafia controlling all of the southbound freight out of the PNW. I realize that sounds odd, but I have no other way of explaining it. Somebody is controlling who gets to haul thousands of loads every day from that region.

Last year a small carrier called me because 2 of his trucks were broke down and he needed somebody to cover the apple loads out of Washington. I did it for about a month, and made great money doing it. I saved the BOL's and called the brokers on those loads, without letting him know that I had hauled freight for them before. They weren't interested in talking to me what so ever.

It all just seems kind of odd to me.

 

Yeah, I dunno. I never really dug too hard into that. 70% of the work I do up that way is inbound stuff for an out of state wholesaler. The rest is inbound fot a handful of my other good customers, so it's hard to say.

 

Where i run on the 81 corridor it's almost more Canadian carriers than US. Most of em going to the ports in jersey, tri-axle containers duct taped together and English as second language

 

Yup, happens here in Michigan all the time. Canadians pickup up loads, change BOLs and get going. Cross the border empty and just do business over here

 

LOL. The attention has shifted to Canadians.
Yeah...yeah... leave them Chicago White Volvos alone!
It is those #### Canadians screwing you !
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