Where should I go?

I just recently started running under my own authority, but it still doesn't make sense to haul that junk. Like you said, you can get the same gross revenue deadheading back towards a better freight area and then loading back towards the house from there.

 

How about NV? Cheap real estate, no income tax............ I kind of like it around Reno myself.

 

I'd like to hear from NV-resident O/Os as well.

 

Agreed. Just saying I'd rather do that and deadhead to say, Kansas City, and still be at $2.40 for all miles than take $1.30 from Houston to the Midwest.

 

If you are free to move, it only makes sense to get on one end of your best freight lane. I don't know what you haul but whatever it is, it has to be better in certain areas...unless your a Mayflower )

And like other said, it ain't gonna be in Texas or Florida. I wish I could tell you how great things are down here on the Gulf Coast, and they are great down here, except for the freight rates.