Load Boards with Rates posted
#12
12-19-2009, 03:03 AM
Yes, and besides a couple hundred bucks for tolls, don't forget to quantify the cost of the increased risk of having an accident while in the city and make sure you remember that the load going in makes up for the near free load you'll be pulling out. People are so desperate to get out of NYC, they're often pulling loads for LESS than a $1 a mile just to “escape from NYC” as I call it.
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#13
12-19-2009, 05:48 AM
$1pm is a step up from what i have seen..
#14
12-19-2009, 07:09 AM
We pull the occasional ultra cheap (although never as low as 70 cpm) load, but it's always a very short load (100 to 300 miles) to get to a 2000+ mile better paying load. Of course we've also deadheaded 450 miles (recently from Jacksonville, FL to Bessemer, AL) to pick up a decent paying 2000+ mile load as well. The load down to Jacksonville paid $1.80 and the load out of AL paid $1.73 and both were over 2000 mile gigs, so IMHO it was worth the deadhead. As for NYC, we've managed to only go there twice in the last year. The loads in paid pretty good, and we already had long, decent paying loads confirmed within 200 miles of The City going out, or we'd never have gone in to begin with. I really try to stay off the East Coast as much as I can, to be honest. We also try to stay out of Oregon as well. WAY too expensive to run in that state.
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