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Originally Posted by Dejanh
Jacksonville you say..
My friend..
That particular Wensday, Florida state had only 1 load posted the whole day.
From Monday when i delivered there they had only 1 that popped up in Miami, it was gone at .80cpm before it even hit the board. I waited till Tuesday but nothing. Wendsday i woke up, checked it out, nothing again and I just fired it up, came home that night. It was interesting to expirience the fact that I wasnt even able to load on the way home. I had one load out of Charleston to Charlotte but it canceled...
PS
There aint no 1.40 freight down there unless you run intrastate !!!!
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Do you run reefer? I don't know I'm so new at this but when I was with that guy I was with he could get me out of Miami for around $1.35- $1.40 but I didn't think it was so great has it was these long drawn out routes to bad areas with the reefer running all the time.
However I've been looking around since I've been home and seems like there are a lot of produce shippers or middlemen around here. I always wondered why there is no freight coming out of here if Florida is the gateway to Latin America and all the produce down there. Now they are talking about expanding the port in Ft. Lauderdale.
Come to find out there are large produce warehouses all around me; even a building I've driven past 1,000 times that I never paid attention to had a sign that it was a tomatoe place that had now moved 15 minutes up the road.
I went over to the State Farmers Market the other day and seemed like a lot of stuff going on. And today I called a broker and got a load out to the Midwest for about $1.30 a mile. (I booked early and am hoping to hell it doesn't get cancelled.). And to be honest I asked for more after she told me the rate.
And then as I wrote earlier I called a shipper direct and seemed like he was going to give me a load. Mind you I checked the load boards and there was nothing but I don't think the loads down here make it to the boards.
Like I said reading that someone needs deadhead out to North Carolina scares the hell out of me as I live here and can't avoid coming back. To be honest I was thinking of parking the truck up by you (my brother lives just outside of Charlotte) and flying back home if I was going to have trouble getting out of here.