Slow Down ?????

[Sal]

Are all trucking companys slowing down now??? Kinda think I got into trucking at the wrong time. Any thought of whats going on here ?

not at crete. I sat for one day (got a 34 in) in Stanfield, OR then they gave me a 2530m load to MI.

[flood]

not yet but if fuel stays over $4 for any longer they all will be. you did mean speed right

[Drew10]

you did mean speed right

I think the OP is refering to freight.

It is very slow especially for general freight. Could be a bad time to come into the business. Maybe by the time the training periods are over with freight will be picking back up.
I have heard in my company that any students that are qualifing are not being assigned trucks at this time and are being sent home because freight is so slow. This is the season for slow freight, plus the slow economy, its like a double wammy.
Hopefully it will pickup before long.

[flood]

oh ok well as to freight we had been doing fine until the truck went to sh*&^ last month, but friends that are running say they are running about 500-600 a week less but as a team ran 52,000 last quarter

[Mr. Ford95]

I've already been put on notice that in a year I might be out of a job and to start looking now. With construction taking a dump due to the housing market and economy, my company is in deep doo-doo. Boss said we can probably make it another year the way it is now but we will not make it to the next presidential election. He seems to think that if we could make it 6 months past that, the new president will save us all......... We have no work right coming in right now and have been sending 3 of our 7 crews home everyday and alternating which one's go home. I have no idea what I'm going to do, nothing local that will match my current pay unless I go OTR for at least a year. Sure ain't going into an office setting and making $10 an hour, that is just under a 50% pay cut.

[Fredog]

Are all trucking companys slowing down now??? Kinda think I got into trucking at the wrong time. Any thought of whats going on here ?

we are very busy and our rates have not dropped.

[VitoCorleone99]

I've already been put on notice that in a year I might be out of a job and to start looking now. With construction taking a dump due to the housing market and economy, my company is in deep doo-doo. Boss said we can probably make it another year the way it is now but we will not make it to the next presidential election. He seems to think that if we could make it 6 months past that, the new president will save us all......... We have no work right coming in right now and have been sending 3 of our 7 crews home everyday and alternating which one's go home. I have no idea what I'm going to do, nothing local that will match my current pay unless I go OTR for at least a year. Sure ain't going into an office setting and making $10 an hour, that is just under a 50% pay cut.

Your boss might as well say he can't make it to the next lunar eclipse. It would be equally as relevant.

Construction will be going strong by the end of this summer, according to my completely unresearched and baseless gut feeling, which has been right roughly 90% of the time on such matters. Once real estate prices have gotten down to where they should have been all along, investors will start the cycle again. The Chinese and Middle Easterners, who currently fund our exploits through debt holdings, will be perfectly content to buy actual physical "America." The liquidity will be there.

[Mr. Ford95]

I hope your gut is right..........

[Aviator]

C'mon Bush, get those Iraq oil wells pumping for us!

[CaliTrucker]

I'm not sure what kind of company you work for Mr.Ford, but you situation sounds like the one i am in right now. Only difference is our boss just keeps telling us "thing will pick up when the weather get better, or after tax season is over...blah blah blah"

I hope he is right and things do pick up, but the weather has been great for weeks now, and i haven't had a 40 hr week in almost four months, and unemployment doesn't pay worth a crap. So needless to say, my eyes are wide open if another decent job opens up in the area. Only catch is that i am in the same boat with needing OTR experience. Oh well, i might just have to bite the bullet and commute an hour to and from Sacramento everyday

I too hope Vito's "gut feeling" is correct.