moose,
not sure just what you are asking for? I thought you had expedite experience from previous posts you made? So it's hard to give any suggestions but ask your self a few questions ie: are you locating yourself east of the mississippi river,north of chattanoga,and south of rockford il? are you turning down loads of 150-300mi, do you go to canada? can you carry haz-mat? I'm certainly no expert and am a team operation which is different than single-- though some things we do are the same, never sit for more then 24hrs in a marginal area diesel is expensive but sitting 3 days without a load is more expensive than getting to a better freight area. Request an em if you've been sitting 24hrs you might get one but move to better areas. Where you say? well where does the freight come from,it comes from industry and the more industrial areas have more freight,so madison wi might have some freight chicago has alot more. don't spend to much time looking for that 550mi run take the shorter ones and you'll start running more and the longer ones will show up in the same areas when you least expect it will. Think long and hard before taking that high paying run to tx, if you do ,plan on your cost to get back to single freight areas and add that to the cost on delivering the freight then if it is still high enough pay go for it,just don't plan on a return run anytime soon as even teams may wait for a couple days.This has been brought up manys times in the past on eo but it is hard to say no to an 1800 mile run. However we turned down a 775 mile run this week as the unpaid dh to the pu and the unpaid dh to a decent area to get back was 388 miles. we limit dh to about 20% or so and it mostly works but sometimes you have to bite the bullet and take a chance.So let me know what it is you really want to know and I'll try to give my .02 worth,people like charlee,turtle,davekc,leo and so many more are much more experienced then I am so they would be of much more help. forgive my rambling ,am on a10 hr run that doesn't del for 24 hrs so had some time to ROAM.
good luck keep us posted.