Flat bed Trucking and Recession???
 

HI All

All you hear on the news today is that there is a recession and construction spending is slowing and it gonna get worse. I was kinda interesting in flatbedding. Is this slowdown starting to show up in your paychecks??

thanks

Crunch

Rates are down in all segments of trucking. There still seems to be quite a bit of freight. I think some of these people are heavy into drugs for the rates they are offering. We are still staying busy, but must work harder to get decent rates. I am amazed that some of these druggies are trying to get freight moved for $1/mile. Then again, there must be a lot of owner operators who are also using drugs. No one in their right mind would take a load for less than it costs to operate. :shock:

You'r right Gman there are a lot of drugged up brokers out there. I've found that if you dig around, and know your costs (i.e. deadheading) you can still find good loads. I won't put anything on my trailer that doesn't pay at least $1.65 a mile for all miles run and stay plenty busy.

I drive for Maverick,as a company driver.I haven't seen any slow down in freight. I have hauled out of some new places,but plenty of miles.

Same at PGT.

I'm still as Fridaytired on Wednesday as I have been all year.

I truly think they use those recession words to hike up fuel prices and anything else they can use to bleed the AMERICAN working force to pay for the illegals benefits, higher education and everything else they feel they have a right to in this country.

imo the recession has already started. by jan- march of 08 we will be in full recession mode. how severe or how long ? i dont know. i also hope i'm wrong about it too. i posted somewhere on here that oil prices would soon hit 100 dollars a barrel. it seems to be coming true quicker than even i thought. a lot of o/o with huge expensis will be forced out. this seems to happen every few years, weather be slow freight, fuel cost, or something else. one thing for sure this economy has done unbeleivably well considering the high cost of fuel. but thats kinda the point. you dont lower prices when demand keeps growing. only when we use less is when prices will drop & a recession will cause our country to use less & only then will prices come down & freight pick back up. although for me freight is still good.

I won't budge unless its $1.64 a mile. lol

Damb you haul that cheap sh@@, 1 cent below me

Since XMAS tree season is days away, this years rates will again allow me to take most of December and first half of January off. :D