which trailer is easier to find loads for?

Why not hop on one of the free loadboard and see what kind of loads are available in your area, and what they are paying?

 

Free load board with rates posted OK where is that

 

Good point, since most will not let you on their site for free and/or will not post prices. Of course, I never actually registered for any of them, so that does limit what I find.

GetLoaded will show some if you use their test drive. Most of the loads will not show a price, but enough should to give you some idea. If you don't want to sift through all the loads, you can choose "only show loads with pay amounts" as search criteria.

There was one other one I found with a free trial and prices, but I can not seem to remember which one it was. Might have to try a few to find it.

 

Good point, about finding Freight that pays worth doing.
What Trailers, Freight, routes, and or Companies pay the best? I'm hauling Dry Van freight off the Load Board. Along I-10 and I-40. No problem finding Freight. It pays O.K going East, but getting back is another story.

 

I don't see how anyone pulling a van from I-40 and southward from loadboards is doing anything other than making the brokers rich. Last year and the year before in Jan the rates were excellent south of 40 to a certain extent. I'd say they were over the top for guys who were leveraging their trucks properly. But this year has been a whole nother story. I think oil crashing has screwed up a lot of trucking outside the oil fields and a lack of severe weather hammering several different regions this winter hasn't been helpful either.

 

This trip I averaged $1.80 for total of 6,300 miles.. on a dry van.. this is all empty and loaded miles.

It's all about how and where you run the truck.

 

You just proved my point.

 

In the last 2 weeks, the only posted load over $2/mi within 200 miles Sacramento has gone to asscrack Idaho. No thanks, I can sit till May if need be.

 

What do you recommend ? Sit and wait ?


It would make sense if everyone was on the same page and would say no to cheap crap.. but if I'm sitting in Dallas and loads for $1.30/mile and less are flying off the board... I don't think I have too much of a choice. mind you I got $1.89 out of there..



Today CA is paying less than $4k to go to the east coast.. I'm not sure what's killing the rates... cheap diesel or trucking companies that book this crap

 

Don't get me wrong.... I try to get better rates and negotiate.. and some brokers hear you out regarding rates, but they still don't pay.

Although I'm hauling a load for swift.. cornell wi to fernley Nv. When I initially called them, he told me 3400.. I told him thanks but no thanks because we would be too far apart on the rate. Long story short I got 4200. Do you consider that a bad rate? Give me an example of what you get.. maybe I'm doing something wrong