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They're really racking it up on straight trucks if that's what they charge per mile. More expensive than tractors but I guess if they can why not right? Rates on class 8 tractor were $850 a week for sleeper cab plus 13cpm or $750 a week plus 13cpm for a day cab. I was really in no position to...

The rate per mile on your rental sounds high. I rented a class 8 tractor from Penske a couple of years ago for 11 cents a mile (+ weekly rental fee) that was negotiated down from 13 cpm.

It's just ordinary freight but Frito Lay ships like this. Geneseo shipping shoes also ships this way. They are customer load/unload though. Anything lightweight that can be will be hand loaded into a 53' dry van stacked from floor to ceiling, nose to tail, cubing it out to cut cost.

You most definitely want to get a lot of details on what this entails. I have generally found most loads I have done requiring labor were fairly easy and very lucrative loads. But you do have to be picky. The first one of something unknown is always a risk.

I've tailgated with a pallet jack and charge $50 per stop. Hand unloaded nursery loads same deal $50 stop. Never hand unloaded unpalletized floor load of boxes. If you're talking about a couple 1,000 or so boxes then probably charge by the piece but I have no idea how much never do those kind.

On truckload rates are down right now for me running on all in rates. I think it is more due to demand. Back in December rates were as good or better than what they were December '13 when fuel was more expensive. I believe when freight picks back up this spring rates will be demand driven as...

That's interesting I had no idea.

Maybe not lol. Looks better in person the pics don't do it justice.

Put your glasses back on ;-) maybe you can see this one better?

Conversation with a broker this morning about rates and how what we really need is a huge storm to disrupt half the country lol.

Lettered up my new trailer today. If any of you ever see me out there give a shout.

No help either but worked some of their brokered freight a few years ago and remember them as one of the good ones.

For me my money is made on the outbound. If demand in the reload area is good then that's a bonus. But I mostly go out and back. I know what I need coming out of TN to deliver to in most of the outlying states I run. And also know what the going rates will typically be coming back. Makes it...

As far as looking for greener pastures I've been with 2 carriers in 15 years. I would have never left the first carrier had I not been absolutely certain it was a step up. I will never leave the second one either until I'm certain of the same thing. At both carriers I have experienced normal...

@ Turtle You're right about the rates with cargo vans and I get that. Sometimes I lose sight of it. It's not like that with straight trucks and semis. I know I can go just as broke sitting around doing nothing as I can working at it. When demand is there I'm hustling. When it's not I sit...

I agree and it's all fine and dandy but there are drivers who will never get that. Seen it before you can offer someone a lucrative shorthaul and they will turn it down because they want more miles. Head scratcher for sure but not a lot of business minded employees out here or contractors...

Parts are cheap. Excellent motor.

Wouldn't surprise me if they regulated a way to keep 2nd opinions out of it, or maybe with integrated medical records obamacare the second Dr is biased as to what the 1st Dr mistakenly believed, instead of independently concluding anything.

You'll take waffle house for granted when there's one close by home. Once in a while on the road it's nice to stop at one for hot breakfast.

Re: States & Provinces You've Been In In 15 years driving tractor trailer running regional (mostly - always out from TN and back to it) have been to a lot of states but not all of the lower 48. Never been to Canada. Been to or through the following 40 states: TN AL GA NC VA KY MO...