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Originally Posted by tracer
Many Ontario trucking companies by the way have a policy of "staying east of the Mississippi river".
We keep our flatbeds east of the Mississippi as well. We will run our reefers west, but know we will get cheap freight coming back.
We do allot of deadheading. Many of our loads will come back to Chicago or Detroit, then we deadhead 350 miles back north, to get home. I know the only reason we even bother going out west, is we have accounts with Sara Lee, and local Fruit Processors that ship to the west coast, and on occasion, I'll have to sit out there for several days to find a load back. I don't do the numbers, but I'm sure my boss has to figure the averages.
The brokers know they can get trucks to haul back east cheap. It's supply and demand. The longer a load sits, the higher the rate will go. Someone is always going to haul just to cover costs. That's a big problem right there. That's what sets the low rates.
They really have Ontario trucks by the short hairs. I think your new plan will be allot less stressful, if not average out better for you.