Quote:
Originally Posted by Bigmon
Thanks for the update. I was interested because I have an office about 10 miles from where you were. I was also curious about your loads out of CA since everyone seems to complain about not being able to get out.
Office? If I'm not mistaken I thought you said you hauled reefer? To be honest I was surprised at the loadboards out there. I thought there would be more. I mean that's a major entry point for stuff from China. I guess I did ok as it was a holiday weekend.
There is one guy who I have been talking to lately. He is a broker and has I think 4 trucks. He had more and "lost a fortune in trucking". I asked him where he went wrong and he said taking the $1.00 loads of chicken to California hoping to get out with a good load.
A lot of what has been posted here in the past is making sense to me. I mean if anyone like me who knows nothing can go buy a truck and set up shop, well maybe the entry point should be higher. I am doing my best and not hauling cheap but why would someone be taking a $1.00 a mile?
But my friend in Mass who was in the trucking business for many many years, was telling me that people hauling for cheap didn't start yesterday. He had his own authority before deregulation. I think, just maybe, things might get better in this industry. Things are getting too expensive and hauling for cheap will put many people out quicker now then before. More and more people will probably just end up company drivers and then it's those left standing against the big companies. The advantage big companies have over the small ones is they have multiple streams of revenue. J.B Hunt is doing real well with intermodal.
But I digress and in the end I am too new to make any prognosis for this industry.