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Originally Posted by no_worries

Winnemucca has a well-known Basque community. Next time, skip the Pizza Hut and pop into one of their dinner houses.

I think I saw a guy on a horse. Should have asked him about the restaurant.

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Originally Posted by Orangetxguy

...reloaded in Detroit and delivered in Lone Star TX ...

If I could move loads between points inside the US, I'd make 10 grand by now. Don't forget that I'm an 'alian' For example right now I'm staring at the Load board and there THREE (3) loads going to Ontario and Quebec from the entire South-West (AZ,CO,CA,ID,MT,NV,OR,UT,WA,WY). But when I change the search criteria to US internal loads only (South-West to ALL STATES), all of sudden there's 312 (!) loads. Here's one: double drop, 659 miles, $15 per mile, WA to ID. $9,950 gross to Landstar. See my point? It's not easy being an alian

[Steel Horse Cowboy]

Originally Posted by tracer

Yep. 0 diesel cost, 0 time behind the wheel. It took probably 5 minutes for me to lose 16 bucks and then win But I know you cannot do it as regular source of income. I once won 200 bucks on a boat with a casino, and then went in again and lost 400! That's why I stopped as soon as I hit the jackpot yesterday. "Ask and you shall receive" kind of thing and no more than that.

Me and the GF go every monday night (she has to work tonight so we went last night instead) We both take $100 and usually can play table games for a few hours on it. We only hung around for an hour last night cuz the dealer took her $100 at blackjack and I won at 3-Card so we called it an early night.
Last Monday, she hit a jackpot TWICE on a slot for $1,800 and I cleaned up at 3-Card with $3,765....... it can be good and bad, but the MOST I will ever walk out down is the $100 I came in with.

As for your load search Tracer, I hope something comes up for you soon...... still think you should move over the bridge tho and get them gravy runs!!

[Orangetxguy]

Originally Posted by tracer

If I could move loads between points inside the US, I'd make 10 grand by now. Don't forget that I'm an 'alian' For example right now I'm staring at the Load board and there THREE (3) loads going to Ontario and Quebec from the entire South-West (AZ,CO,CA,ID,MT,NV,OR,UT,WA,WY). But when I change the search criteria to US internal loads only (South-West to ALL STATES), all of sudden there's 312 (!) loads. Here's one: double drop, 659 miles, $15 per mile, WA to ID. $9,950 gross to Landstar. See my point? It's not easy being an alian

Just out of curiosity here.....Have you looked at loads taking you up to Vancouver BC.........Then loading out of BC towards say Texas......or Georgia? Something that pays half decent and takes you towards money areas? I know that there used to be plenty of loads in central Kali that went into the Vancouver-Surrey area......of course that was 6-7 years ago. Sometimes...in order to make it home in the "pink"...you gotta head away from home!

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Originally Posted by Orangetxguy

Just out of curiosity here.....Have you looked at loads taking you up to Vancouver BC.........Then loading out of BC towards say Texas......or Georgia? Something that pays half decent and takes you towards money areas? I know that there used to be plenty of loads in central Kali that went into the Vancouver-Surrey area......of course that was 6-7 years ago. Sometimes...in order to make it home in the "pink"...you gotta head away from home!

I tried going to BC and Alberta from US (they pay quite good) but it was hard to get back to Eastern Canada afterwards. But I agree that often you have to go someplace else before you find a return trip home, sort of like a triangle ...

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It's 11 am local time in Sparks (Reno) Nevada on Monday and the load board is pretty much empty. I did have an interesting email exchange with the agent who couldn't find his customer on Friday. Remember I wrote about a good LTL out of CALI? I emailed him again this morning updating on my location and he wrote back saying the load had been covered by the "customer" (I hate this word because often it refers to another broker!). Frustrated, I asked him how many middlemen were involved in this load ("2, 3 or 5?") and he said '0'!

Turns out he has a direct relationship with this buyer of some used equipment and the only reason he didn't find him on Friday was because the dealer in question was traveling somewhere in the Eastern USA and he didn't get the email from the Agent until the end of the day on Friday. He must be on AT&T Anyway, I sent the Agent my trailer spec sheet in PDF (kind of like a extended version of a business card; I find most Agents love to have it) and he wrote back thanking me and saying a few times a year they have freight between Reno, NV and Ontario, Canada (2-way shipment). So, it's a good thing I kept my shirt on and was polite in my emails. It looks like I'm building a network of agents that might have some freight for me in the future. The important thing now is to keep my cell phone number unchanged even when I get my own authority

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Originally Posted by Steel Horse Cowboy

still think you should move over the bridge tho and get them gravy runs!!

For me to 'move over the bridge' is as difficult as for a Mexican to get a green card in the US. It's impossible. I can stay here up to 6 months with no visa, I can buy a house but I cannot work for a local employer. If I were a star football player or some kind of Eistein 2, then I could probably get one of those special talent visas.

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I'm still at the TA in Sparks Nevada ... Been working with the load board the entire day. One agent posted a load from Las Vegas NV to Edmonton Alberta saying the distance was 1,451 miles; the rate per mile was $3.22; and the total freight paid $4,675. Sounds good, right? But I read through the listing and at the very bottom it says, "Drop in Regina"! Now the mileage from Las Vegas to Edmonton VIA Regina SK is 1,931 miles so the actual rate is $2.41 per mile, not $3.22. I hate when these guys do this, so I emailed the Agent and the Agent Administrator at Landstar a complaint about this and asked the Agent to correct the listing. What do they think? That truckers cannot count?

I checked that listing on the Landstar board 10 minutes later and it now had a much more realistic per mile rate and mileage: 1,895 miles; $2.45 per mile. So, sometimes complaints do work!

[solo379]

Originally Posted by tracer

What do they think? That truckers cannot count?

Well, IMHO that would be about right, considering majority....

[Heavy Duty]

Originally Posted by tracer

For me to 'move over the bridge' is as difficult as for a Mexican to get a green card in the US. It's impossible. I can stay here up to 6 months with no visa, I can buy a house but I cannot work for a local employer. If I were a star football player or some kind of Eistein 2, then I could probably get one of those special talent visas.

You could marry a American girl, or boy in some states.