When will frieght pick up

The trick for O/O's like myself is to get high dollar loads and drive less, be home a reasonable amount of time.
Right now there are plenty .80 to $1.20/m loads for anyone who wants them.
To earn the same money we earned 6 mos. ago, you have to drive twice as far and twice as long. You're not actually earning the same because with all that mileage comes wear and tear. Some of this is seasonal and some is the bad economy. I'm just trying to hold on long enough for the end of the 1st quarter of the year and freight should pick up a little.

 

LMAO...I've been doing this too long. And I have truly gotten lazy.

I would understand the too many miles issue, before the weather. Although there is one within this forum, who would call me a liar outright.

I am too ready to slow down. But I keep hammering away at the miles when I leave.

I've always been of the opinion. If you're going to keep me out, you're going to run me, or I'm going home.

Now days, I'd be happy with about 2000 miles a week and a few days a week at home.

Let me find someone willing to pay me by the hour or pay me .45 a mile. And I will be happy with 1500 miles or less a week If I'm home between trips.

 

In a perfect world......

 

Thats the goal...isn't it ?? LOL

 

I understand that, If I owned my Truck out right, when freight goes for so little, I would park my truck and shovel snow for awhile before I beat my truck to death for no money.
I wont let someone else use up my asset unless I am making my moneys worth also.

 

We still have to try to earn a buck though.
Rates drop, freight's slow, but house payments and other bills don't drop or stop either....

 

Right now the money from the last 30-40 days is still rolling in.
If I sit out the next couple of weeks, I'll feel it in a month.

 

you must be a union driver. the unions and their "inside daily" negotiations are why we are in the shape we are in. i was a supervisor/manager for over 12 years in the auto industry (GM) and i have seen 1st hand how and why the union is just as much to blame if not more than anyone else. someone needs to put the unions in their place. this isnt the 1950's anymore. the unions need to realize that. this is 2008, almost 2009. things change, needs change, economies change, and ways of business change. think like the japanese thinks, not like americans. japanese plan 200 years ahead, americans plan 2 minutes ahead and are greedy and impatient and the unions feed off of that. so, the point? unions are not helpful to the american people like they were intended. they have become greedy and pushy and looking out for them and their own not for anything else.

 

so, is it worth getting into trucking at all in 2009? this is the only industry that has jobs. but if they dont pay or are going to be cutting jobs, then should i not even bother?