How Slow is Freight at Your Company?
#41
12-31-2008, 09:26 AM
Is that a misprint? Did you mean "coming into"?
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#42
12-31-2008, 09:35 AM
That has me scratching my head as well. Loads out of the Northeast have always sucked, haven't they?
#43
12-31-2008, 05:50 PM
Yes,I have seen outbound rates as low as .70cpm with no fuel surcharge going all the way to the west coast. And they get MOVED!  In the northeast,especially MA.,they don't care if their load sits on the dock for a year. I was blessed to find a load paying 1.40pm going south. Rates staying in the northeast are in the 3.50pm range but they only go 132 miles and take more than a day to unload.
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#44
01-01-2009, 01:57 AM
I was fortunate enough to book one from Richmond, VA to NJ paying $2.68 per mile on 300 miles that didn't want to use my truck as a warehouse.
#45
01-02-2009, 01:30 PM
i usually never go to the northeast but i happen to get a load out of there yesterday 498miles $712 bucks about 1.43pm which is pretty good!!!
#46
01-07-2009, 02:15 AM
Probably to another "dead", or troubled area. Let me guess, Upstate NY, or PA? I assume, you are pulling a box?
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#47
01-07-2009, 10:20 AM
yeah im pulling a box with schneider(for the moment) and i got the load going(home) to NC, got load out of NC for 2.26per mile to ohio... but this week much different....there is freight on SNI load board but its dirt cheap...makes me wanna stay home for a few weeks!!!
#48
01-08-2009, 05:43 AM
I am guessing that what WW was referring to with the "good" comment was: Loads were always "available" in the northeast. Even if they were not particularly profitable there was at least something to do.
Freight was particularly slow for us over the holiday weeks, but this week has been great, for this time of year at least.
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#49
01-08-2009, 02:58 PM
i feel grateful now, i talkd in depth with a JB owner operator, and he was telling me he has been sitting 24 to 36 hours between loads and getting 700 miles per week, he was on the JB %program he said all loads are cheap cheap cheap!!!!
#50
01-09-2009, 05:10 AM
The only thing that seems to be moving steady now for me is reefer loads outta CO. and lumber outta MI. Raw materials are starting to pick up. I am pretty sure thats a good thing. I've been hearing from my customers that they will pick up more around the middle to end of Jan and keep getting steadier from there. I dunno just my take on it looking at what freight Ive been getting and what Im told.
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