is frieght realy slow right now ?

[doctorfillgood]

I keep getting told how frieght is slow right now in the se region 9 southern states but i see alot of trucks going up and down the big roads just wonding if its true or just away
to justify all the sitting we do lately

[doctorfillgood]

sorry about the spelling thought i would get to use spell check before it was submitted been awhile since i used the form

[Mr. Ford95]

In general, everything is slow. My company is about to lay off some more workers due to no work. We laid off about 40 guys last winter and only brought half of them back, now we are about to lay off 15 more. We are a concrete company(no we aren't the mixer trucks, we are a construction company.) I have been lucky in that I'm working at the owner's farm hauling away scrap equipment and moving dirt piles to fill in gullies.

[whthorse]

It's slow here on the west coast too... last year this time I was hardly home this year I feel lucky if i get a load.

[Fredog]

It's slow here on the west coast too... last year this time I was hardly home this year I feel lucky if i get a load.

our busy time is just starting

[Malaki86]

Our company has 60 company trucks. Right now there are 27 trucks sitting in our yard without a driver.

So, at least for me, no, freight isn't slow.

[Mackman]

Dry Bulk is runnin strong

[Truckfam]

My husband works for a company with about 200 trucks. His manager in the Indy terminal told him that freight was slowing down due to the economy. All the drivers had less miles. At least he isn't sitting right now though. But he did get home two weekends in a row with at least two days home each weekend. Where as his normal was two weeks out and two days home. I'll see what happens this coming up weekend.

[worldisnotenough]

I spent all of last year as a solo before my wife came on the truck as a driver. It was pretty slow but I think it is relative. I had friends who would run there asses off and I would be resetting every other day. I always had hours and was never late. It was just where I was at the time. There are lots of variables. Dispatchers may not like you. Your area may be dead. too many trucks with the company. Planners don't have a clue as to what is going on. I think the term freight is slow is just a general term trucking companies use to make you feel better. Or worse depending on your political beliefs I see just as many trucks going down the road when it is supposedly slow as I do when I am running like crazy. It is what it is. It is trucking! Yet if it is really slow like my company says, then maybe someone should tell recruiting to slow down as we are not in need of new drivers at this time.

[TruckerChris]

We work 12hr shifts here in Sacramento hauling wood products. People aren't buying/building houses so the logs are not being processed. I worked 5 hrs last friday before being told to "fuel and wash then head home chris"

It sucks, I'm not making any money!

[worldisnotenough]

I guess I was speaking more in terms of the OTR dry van industry.

[Malaki86]

It's all relative, though.

If the construction side is slow then that means they don't need the product brought in by an OTR driver.

Our company mainly hauls paper and paper pulp. I don't see any slowdown in these products whatsoever.

[worldisnotenough]

Yep, you can never have too much toilet paper.

[whthorse]

I guess I was speaking more in terms of the OTR dry van industry.

Well my truck hauls lumber on a flatbed and that's almost to a stand still. My other truck pulls a dryvan hauling bottled water and lately it's he's not working as much. So it doesn't matter what you're hauling.... It's Slow.

[WildK9]

I'm doing fine pulling a reefer. Haven't noticed any slow downs. :wink:

[redsfan]

I'm doing fine pulling a reefer. Haven't noticed any slow downs. :wink:

Ditto on that. Produce hasn't slowed down at all. Thankfully more people are spending their money on groceries instead of building stupid houses... :wink:

[Mr. Ford95]

Everyone gotta eat......unless your the starving pigmies.