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Originally Posted by henboy1
This is the worse year besides 2010.
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Get your heads down this is gona be a big one.
Questions can be short but require long answers. I answered this below. I had to make some corrections. I couldn't delete it or I would have.
I haul flat out of the Vegas area. Loads have dropped from 250 loads posted regularly last yr on Truckstop & back going back to 2012, to a pathetic 100-129 today. What makes this worse is many of the loads are to CA, cutting into the loads even more.
I spoke to another carrier in April who runs here also. He said this 1 st qt 2015 was the worst he's ever seen.
When I called KR around April 2015 to report the drop, and asked his take, & to put out a call to see if others in trucking around the country where having a problem. He basically dumped on my statement and said what does it matter, you did the looking, and saw difference. Of course that was not the point.
I put in series of calls, ie oil sample, to his program only to be cut short & or dismissed. Not all calls but quite a few.
A few weeks later he came out and said there is a drop in the market and if you only made it because of last years upward market you could have problems this year. He failed to give credit to a caller for bring this drop in loads to his attention. In doing what he did he was making it seem like he discovered the drop in the market and was setting out to warn drivers; but after the fact. (I've always been taught you give credit where credit is do!). This was opposite of his pumping up the market last yr. and saying 2015 looks like it'll be good. I wonder how many drivers made purchases based on this?
His radio program is not what it was. I got in truck'n and bought an old truck listening to him. It cost me $12k for the truck, and $11k ripoff by a Freightliner shop that worked on it, and worked on me to. He didn't warn people about truck shop rips until after I called in, and complained about my old truck experience. As I recall he was dismissive of me then too.
Short answer, trucking is WAY DOWN, at least in this area. Whats worse is that CA doesn't allow my truck in. This has cut into the loads that are available. Be careful what you act on when you listen to the radio.
Its not the fuel/oil industry. The oil only added to the 2014 upward move. Presently the loads and rates have dropped below, if not way below 2013 &2012. It's the economy. Its also the water shortage; being drank up by all the mass of new foreigners in CA. (CA water supply can not support 40 million people). Since the water shortage they don't need as many products out there from flats anymore. Vans look like there down also, but don't follow vans, although I have been watching them as of recent. Why? Because of the drop in loads and not as much to do.
It is in part do to oil not being produced and the products they use; this is a small issue it only effected the 2014 big jump. Everything else was the same. For vans it might be because of loads from China diverted from L.A. CA to the South East.
I believe we may be entering into a major slow down. Its major to me right now. CA is flooded with foreigners draining the water supply & food supply, while CA/USA is sending $115 billion a yr in food, grown with our water, out of our country. You see this is now become what the people in power call TRADE. We TRADE OUR VALUABLE RESOURCES, food and water, to the very people our government has allowed our jobs, IE. China, & call it trade. But it puts us all in danger in so many ways; water shortage, food shortage, foreigners in our country robbing and thieving. crime-ing more and more because of everything I've mentioned. And now whites are getting into You can't keep adding foreigners to a land, CA, being drained of water.
I believe we are in deep trouble. Media won't tell the truth and or even investigate. We can no longer trust the media or our government sad to say.
Rates are in the toilet. You can't haul 100-600 mile runs, out of this area for the rates there offering; most of the loads go to "no ware land" and you should get a good rate to cover the "No Loads" out. You need to charge as to get back or to the next load which will be a long distance and probably pvery little. Example, Albuquerque has little chance of a haul out of there. They are trying to get people to haul loads there for $1100-$1200. I just looked at SLC they want to pay 700, WTH! I ask for more money which is needed do to the drop in loads. If I don't get it I'll shut dn.