Where should I go?

Texas.....reasonably trucker friendly.

Property is reasonable away from major metro areas.......think South of I-20 and North of I-10.....I-35 or I-45 corridor at least 50 miles away from anything that resembles Dallas/Ft Worth/Houston/Austin/San Antonio.

Think outside of Waco or Corsicana.......close enough to Dallas/Ft Worth IF you have to go there.....far enough away that you can still afford to live.

No State income taxes.....personal property taxes instead........just another word for them.....but if you lease property or space.....it's on your landlord.

Pretty decent freight base for a flatbedder.

 

Question now is are you gonna make any money hauling that flatbed freight??

 

You tell me......I pull a tank.......I see a lot of flatbeds getting loaded around here though.


It can't all be cheap freight.

 

HA! That last statement was just too funny!!!

 

If you relocate to TX, talk to me......I'll sell you my house.

 

Les.........I'm just so glad that you know everything about Texas since you live nowhere close to here........

 

Well I guess you think less than a dollar a mile is good freight? then stay down there and stop driving our rates up here down! But since you pull a tanker you must know all about flatbed freight...

 

I should add this. It will depend on which direction you go out of TX that will determine the rate. I know anything coming north toward OH, KY, IN, IL, you will be lucky to get a dollar a mile not counting surcharge. Going east and west the rates will get alittle better I'm guessing.

I've got 2 friends that run houston, deliver and bounce 600 miles to memphis and get the same and sometimes better rates than if they would've loaded out down there.

But yet TX has plenty of freight...! You and everyone else can keep it!

 

It's really pretty incredible how much the rates coming out of TX vary with where they're going. Earlier this summer, rates out of Houston going to the Midwest and Southeast were all of about $1.30/mi, while pipe loads going to ND were getting up towards $4/mi.

 

YEah but your talking gross. At 75% that comes out to 98 cents a mile.