i recently leased to a company who really only does take %4 if you decide not to haul their terminal to terminal freight. So i take a load friday morning from Milwaukee to Los Angeles for $3000 and im thinking im doing good, i start looking for a load starting saturday and there is NOTHING coming out of LA in a dry box, so monday mornin comes and i make some calls and still nothing!!! I get a call from a broker for a load going from anaheim to greenville SC 2400 miles 3100.... i say no thank you, and every load seem to be paying the same to where im trying to get to 2400-2500 miles for anywhere from 3100-3300. So by the afternoon i need to get rolling and i realize that with just a dry van thats not vented LA/Cali is a bad place to be for rates, i end up taking a load 2400 miles picked up monday at 1700 and delivered in winston salem NC at 0800 this morning for 2800$ 1.16 a mile....... i might as well been with schneider, but i got my trailer vented and taking a load from NC to ST louis 700 miles for 1900$ then from e st louis to st paul for 1300$ then gonna do a terminal to terminal load, st paul to charlotte for 2100$


i kinda like working this way

 

Beginning of the week (monday) is a bad time for good rates in LA with a dry box. waiting till tuesday/wednesday could have been more lucrative. Either way, you positioned the truck where better freight is, so thats good.

 

There's lots of freight out here, but rates aren't necessarily reflecting the ratios. You could have gotten $2+ no problem to the NW. Things headed back East are only $3000-3500 on average though, with some exceptions.

 

yeah there were loads going to the NW, for example 900 miles paying 1860$, but i was afraid i was gonna be right back in the same situation trying to get back east from the NW

 

yeah i just started this looking for my own freight thingy and like i told me wife i have to stop looking at the miles vs. maybe sitting a day and getting a better paying load,,, if im not mistaken...... are these a few of the areas for low rate freight............>>>>>>>> west coast, florida, and the Nrth east? i say this because the company im leased to, if i pull some of there terminal freight like from st paul, milwaukee, or chicago(midwest terminals) to just about anywhere its paying well above 2$. but freight in those areas pays 1.20-130

 

That is some good money for terminal to terminal runs. Who are you leased with?

 

 

Coast to coast is always rough, although it's my experience that it's much easier to get a good rate from West to East than vice versa. NE and FL are usually terrible, except that you can sometimes run between the two and do pretty good. $2 van freight off the boards will be tough, no matter where you are. I'm actually surprised you couldn't find something in the $1.50 range at least to head East out of CA. If you go that way again you may want to count on taking a run to the NW then using Roadrunner to move you out of there, to the closest decent spot, probably KC, STL, or DAL. That gives you two good legs and one bad one. Also, if you have the time, it usually pays off to wait for something good in an area where the densities are favorable, like CA is right now. Sure they want to move freight cheap, but the ratio of freight to trucks means that someone's going to get in a bind and have to pay.

 

yeah the had goo paying freight, im talking $2 a mile freight going from LA back to the NW but i thought i would put myself in the same situation from up there trying to get back east, i never thought of the 2 good legs 1 bad thing. :lol: Perhaps if i had i wouldve done that