why do you guys want texas so bad??

No guys don't want the sancho to pay them a visit that's why they like Texas and turn back to Cali hahaha

 

Lol , they'll take anything to keep sancho away

 

I was in Marshall, TX last week, getting off a 10 after making a delivery at an oil rig the night before, and started checking load boards to see what I could find. To my surprise 123Loadboard app now allows brokers to post a quote. I use that app and Truckloads (which already had the quote feature).

I quickly found three loads that were quoting over $4/mile. One of them was a load of lumber, two were loads of drill pipe for the oil field.

Unfortunately I decided to deadhead back to OKC that afternoon, to cover a high paying load for a preferred customer. None of the brokers were set up in our system and I didn't want the uncertainty of waiting another day for a maybe.

Last time I was in that neighborhood looking for a load the rates were very low and I deadheaded back to OKC out of principle. Now I hope to get back there to cover a load for one of those brokers. Flatbed with pipe stakes and Hazmat is in demand.

 

Nothing wrong with loads in and out of Texas. Hazmat tanker pays good.

 

I don't know about that.

They are not too big on large or abundant truck stops.
The Walmart's are not big on trucks parking there.
Texas is my least liked state west of KY, aside from CA.

Texas is TINY when it comes to trucker comforts.

 

Gee I wonder lol
Watertown Weather - AccuWeather Forecast for NY 13601

 

Just the forecaster saying snow.

Stores mobbed, emptied. People having trouble getting round as the forecasted storm time of doom approaches.

Forecasters I think understated or delayed storm information as not to truly panic the masses.

During the '93 storm as it developed on day one, Baltimore debated declaring a III Level Ban on everything in city excepting essential emergency vehicles only from moving. Boy did the rumors fly then.

All of that got drifted over and silence was golden that week or a month.

I used to examine trucks coming out of storm zones to see what the weather is fixing to be. If they are displaying a few inches of grime, salt, barrels of ice and shedding chunks of snow hanging (Welded on...) everything I know I am in for a storm.

Some days I did not even need a forecaster sitting on the porch and beginning to see the overnighters with loads for baltimore flow by with increasingly winter storm appearing rigs as they came through the mountains west of the area.

I save my best parting shot for Chicago. One snow flake in the evening commute at 33 degrees or whatever and they send out 10,000 salt trucks to bury the roads. Next thing you know the sun had gone down and now it's cold enough to turn that slush and salt into something that slashes tires and what not.

 

Maybe everybody likes going to Texas because of warm weather, the big cities are easy on the eyes, unique truck stops, longhorns, I don't know. I know on the dry van side you can get lucky sometimes and get a decent rate going in.....if you get $1.85 coming out, I have to say you hit the jack pot coming out of Texas and that's sad.