Load Boards???

[DaveP]

Since I learn more here from you guys I thought I'd ask ya'll first...

Has freight totally died since last week?

I've been sitting in Orange, TX since noon Friday and all I'm getting is "Hang tight Dave...we're working on it"... I've NEVER had to sit this long...Three 24 ounce Pilot Extremes and I'm about ready to chase cows around the pasture in front of me...lol!

(I'm a company flatbedder...PGT)

[2]

Some folks have been promising hope for a turn around, late next year.
Others give it about 2 to 3 years.

Over the past few years, the gov't has nationalized the economy, in fact.
This year, the gov't has formalized the effort.

The gov't has been steadily removing motivation for individuals to work, to be productive and responsible, and plan for their future.

The gov't has been steadily removing motivation for businesses to form, grow and innovate. Not to mention how the gov't steals from big businesses, little businesses, and small fry like us.

You are now presumed guilty until proven innocent. If you cannot afford a lawyer, you are guilty.

The rate of change has accelerated.

I expect the USA to look a lot like Cuba, within 10 years.

[GMAN]

DaveP, I just checked one of the load boards. There are only 181 loads within a 150 mile radius of my home base. There are usually over 3,000 when things are doing well. Last week there were over 900. Of course, it is still early in the day.

[Walking Eagle]

Freight has really gone down hill this week I unloaded in Baltimore Monday. Only took the load as there were several good paying oversize listed from around here last week. Gona give it till noon tomorrow then put it in the wind for Florida if nothing shows up.

[BigDiesel]

Freight has really gone down hill this week I unloaded in Baltimore Monday. Only took the load as there were several good paying oversize listed from around here last week. Gona give it till noon tomorrow then put it in the wind for Florida if nothing shows up.

I have all three trucks booked for the next 3 weeks with Nursery stock.... But thats what we specialize in though....

[Scottt]

I have all three trucks booked for the next 3 weeks with Nursery stock.... But thats what we specialize in though....

I smell BS

Scan your confirmations.

Wow I can be a butthead too it's so easy to do

[BigDiesel]

i smell bs

scan your confirmations.

Wow i can be a butthead too it's so easy to do

:d:d:d:d

[Walking Eagle]

I normally book quite q ways in advance for the things I haul but with the economy the way it is people are either not buying, or putting holds, on big things Finally found a 12 wide 140,000lbs excavator going down to the Port of Miami (Hate that place) that pays $28,000 plus permits so that will pay for the run home, but in "normal" times should pay way more.
Then take off till 17th of next month when I load a real good paying load to Ga. from Ca. (Keep fingers crossed the Arabs don't run out of money by then) then off for the rest of the year

[sidman82]

Stop rubing it in.

I am in Kingsland, GA. Deliver to navy base in the morning. Over here at the petro off exit 3. Final destination is Cocoa Beach.

It's nice and warm here, I think I might stay.

[GMAN]

My nursery stock is just getting started. These loads pay pretty well but there are some who are trying to beat down the rates. The main problem is getting something decent back to haul another load. Some are taking anything they can get to keep moving. It is amazing how cheap some people will haul a load for these days.

[Walking Eagle]

Sidman82, I can just hear my boat, and the fish calling I live about 150 yards from the Intercoastal Waterway in SW Florida and the boat will be in the water within an hour of setting the parking brake

[sidman82]

Sounds nice, Walking Eagle. Have you ever hauled for Butch @ LDH corp. He is in GA and does specialized oversize. He is my new brother-in-laws uncle. I will be doing some work with him in the near future. I have only done RGN for about 5 years about 15 years ago, and I am going to get back into it with LDH.
I have experience moving machines, like D-8's and 980's. I would like to move much bigger things before I move on. Have fun fishing.

[Walking Eagle]

Name kinda rings a bell, but not the initials LDH. Would have to go back thru my "stuff" and look, I have kept all the agents, shippers and recievers I have worked with over the past 20 years doing this Never know where you might find a load. What part of Ga. is he in ? That is how I file it.
Good luck with getting back into HH, the only place to make $$$$s at the minute in trucking.

[sidman82]

Main hub is out of Savanah and another in Atlanta. Also a few more up North and West.

[Walking Eagle]

Probably have then as I have hauled quite a few large loads out of the port of Savanah, in fact that is where the load I am going to pick up in Ca. next month is going, if we can figure out a route to get it there.

[DaveP]

Thanks for the replys.

Yep...it's SLOW.

Sat in Orange, TX from noon Friday till noon Monday.
Load of pipe from Houston to Hughes Springs, TX then over to Daingerfield for a load of shingles to Houma, LA. That got me to Wednesday.

Sat empty at the Buena Vista, LA truck plaza till I FINALLY got a load out of Bayou Steel in LaPlace Friday at 1pm to Ashland City, TN for Monday...

I knew things were bad when I pulled up to door 5 at Bayou Steel and the supervisor looked at me with a strange look then got on his radio and said "Well I'll be a sonuvabitch...GET UP BOYS AND GIRLS....WE DONE GOT OURSELVES A TRUCK TO LOAD..."

[dobry4u]

I work for Swift and am based out of the New Boston, MI terminal and the place is packed with drivers with no loads. I was thinking it was because Michigan is so automobile based and the manufactures are cutting down production due to over stock, but I am thinking the lack of freight is much broader than that. YIKES

[GMAN]

We need to expect freight to slow along with the rest of the economy. If products are not moving or construction is not doing much then there is no need for trucks to haul the freight. I read somewhere that JB Hunt is taking about 1300 trucks off the road. This is a cyclical slower time of year for freight. It is slower than usually due to the general slow down in the economy. It has likely helped that some capacity has been taken out of the mix with recent bankruptcy filings. You can't take over 20,000 carriers out of the market in a single year and not expect that it will have an effect.

[Walking Eagle]

As long as the rest of the world, especialy Arab countries, keeps buying I don't think there will be much of a slowdown in OD or open trailer freight, as long as you don't mind going into the ports. Tuesday when I unloaded at Port of Baltimore with an OD Case load I was in there right after 9am cerfew and was only about 20 in line, when I came out of shed 12 at about at about 1pm there must have been 60 trucks lined up (who knows how many in the yard) at least 20 of them with Case tractors.
The load I am taking into Miami I know there were 11 more all going to Venezuela.

[allan5oh]

Bankruptcy doesn't mean that we'll suddenly see an upswing. The companies can still function(depending on the type of bankruptcy).