I'm with you WW...

12:30pm CST and still sitting at the house. Only got a call to make sure I fax my yearly driving record review thingy in to Compliance.

No problem though...I'm enjoying the break!

Heyyyy....here's a local, 2 years exp.+, flatbed, home every night job in the paper...hmmmmm ;>)

I'm just coming out of the house, and I've noticed that rates are beginning to climb compared to a month ago. Stuff that was going for $1.00 - $1.50 per mile is now running for $1.60 - $2.00 per mile.

That's a good sign.
Hope we see some more posts like that one.

slowed right down here. The runs have gotten much shorter, more on the 150 - 250 range next day stuff.

This is due to many of us O/O's and small fleet owners not running last week and this week.....:roll:

Then why, pray tell, are rates still high for stuff that is moving next week and the week after?:roll2::roll:

From the Landstarve board ????

Most of my rates have been in the 1.70pm to 2.40pm range. It may not seem bad however my deadhead has increased by almost 25% due to the extreme lack of freight or extremely cheap freight in Texas. My average for all miles is barely at the 1.70pm mark but it isn't consistent enough. Last year around this time of the year freight going into Ca. from TX paid around 2.00pm with a reload paying almost the same coming back out. This year ALL the freight originating in TX destined to Ca. are moving rapidly for a whopping .85cpm. It has gotten pretty ridiculous. Not sure who would be dumb enough to run over the New Year for .85cpm for 1750 miles. Yes,some doofus booked that load within minutes. WTF?

I've been sitting since the 20th. I have hauled 2 loads all month. My next load is the 4th. It goes up to NJ, but I will do just like the last 2 loads, I will be deadheading home.

Luckily..the load sunday pays exceptionally well. It is a routed permit load...in a tank. When I get back..I will be back at the bottom of the board. Hopefully some of the local guys will have made some money by then...there are 14 local drivers...and only 3 have worked all month.

Between Thanksgiving and now, our terminal had 285 loads cancelled.

Out of Wi. maybe. Out of other areas with the exception of the northwest the rates going outbound are not that high unless they are going into crappy areas where outbound freight is practically nonexistant.