Is it that there are few manufacturers or lots of truckers or what? My dad was in Dallas last week and he had to sit a day before he could get something out of there and when he did it only paid around $1.60/mi.
He is going to FL this next week and already I can see that loads coming out of the area where he will be are paying not much more than $1/mi. He's going to do some work on a rental house he has in the area so he had a good reason to go down there, but $1/mi really sucks.

$1 a mile is running for a loss.

Fl sucks, but I don't know why he had a hard time out of Texas.

I took a good paying load to ft. lauderdale fl. 5 years ago. got out with #79990 lbs. & .80 cents a mile. I never went back. not even for vacation :lol: to me fl is an import state. everything goes in.. nothing goes out!

Definately it's a loss. Why is it that brokers get away with paying so low of a rate?

As far as Texas I don't know why. I have noticed that there are not many loads from the Dallas area going to or through the Nashville area. It seemed most go North to OK or MO or East to LA or West.

Then pinball your (rather, your dad's) way home to the hopuse doing shorthauls. LH's are nice, but if it paid the greatest, everyone would be doing it

I hauled for $1 a mile once with a partial to get back to my agent for some good tonnage 8)

Only took like 8ft?

Ridge Runner is right. The ONLY reason rates are so cheap in some areas is because people take them. There is absolutely NO reason for rates to be so cheap coming out of Florida or Texas other than owner operators and carriers who are willing to take them. Stop taking them, rates go up. Freight in Texas has been off for a couple of years. You can still get a good rate on occasion, but it usually takes work. When you go to bad freight areas, you may need to go to another better area to get where you actually want to go unless you want to deadhead.

EXACTLY. Who in their right mind would take a load paying 1.60 to go to FL?? The best way to get out of Dallas is to deadhead to AR. and grab a load paying 3-4 dollars a mile(yes,loads out of there do pay that much if you ask)OR take a load paying close to 3.00 a mile going into OK. Rates out of OK going west are not bad. Again,you have to firmly negotiate these loads as they don't just get offered into your lap.Earlier today a broker had a Fort Worth to AZ load for 1.80. I told him my rate was 2.50 since most likely I would have to deadhead to Ca. to get a decent rate from there. By the time he called me back to agree I had changed my mind about wanting to go in that direction. :lol: This was at around 4:30pm as that is when some brokers are really scrambling for a truck and are more easier to negotiate with. Unless you are putting partials together there is really no reason to sit in one area for more than one day. Get a good enough rate going to a bad area from the beginning and you can than afford to deadhead out if necessary.Sometimes you can still snag a decent one in a bad area.

Better watch quoting those rates, DD60. NotSteve will accuse you of lying. After all, he knows, "for a fact," that no one gets those rates. :roll: :lol: