Truck Load Rates Halt 8 Week Slide 2.0

Danggit Man if I'd a known u was down here , I coulda bought u some steak dinner !

 

I figured you’d be tired after your trip out east. I didn’t think I was going to get out of town on Wednesday.

 

All good man ! Hopefully PHX treated u well other than the ####ty freight market. Yeah that trip wore me the f out lol one of these days we will have to get together

 

Yeah that's when you might get lucky and come across a Cali $1.30 a mile load

 

Speaking of Cali, just got this email lol

 

Eastbound out of the West Coast has always sucked... U dont come out west here unless u wanna work here for awhile or u can get round trip quote back to the east.... Its been that way ever since i started in the business 4.5 years ago... Dont know what it was like before then

 

Ask if there's free fuel in route and if broker can provide free driver for the truck. That's the only way that rate may work.

 

During covid times was good out of there for van (LA MARKET). Flatbed always sucked but not this bad.

 

Covid rates were not ever close to normal.... That was an anomoly... If u think flatbed sucks out west just try an rgn.. It's 100x worse

 

How's everybody doing during the rate slide times? The slide now is real and it gets serious. The same lanes are dropping for a few hundred dollars on weekly basis.
Anyway for me YTD is 11,414 all miles travelled and $27,053.47 gross.
Unfortunately, I can't any longer stay within 200-300 miles all the time to preserve the odometer miles, this freight became barren and I needed to extend the radius. I am doing three leg circles in the Midwest that close within 5 day - 6 days of time span, and render 5-6K revenue, which is enough to sustain my current living expenses. For example, the last two weeks 1. IL-MN $1500 / 400miles 2. MN-PA - $3350 / 1200 miles 3. PA-IL 1300 / 680 miles
then again: 1. IN-WI: $990/360 miles 2 ,WI-PA $ 2500 / 980 miles 3. PA-IL: $1900 / 680 miles (quite a rarity these days)

However, the next week I'll start on Wednesday with IL - MN 1100 / 400 miles (slide) then MN - VA - 3200 ( slide) and then I'll see.

It starts getting to feel as in 2017 or 2019... when staying above 2 dol a mile was quite fulfilling. Except the fuel was at about $ 3 per gallon.