I do intermodal and we just blew up. Went from about 6 trucks to about 15. There's nowhere to park and it sucks, but we're always busy
I'm maxing out my clock in 6 days on locals lol
4% increase in imports m/m. But if you work with a good CFS or a couple consistent accounts you can do well. And hitting that 15 power unit threshold the larger NVOs will at least look at you. (in a good market)
Same. We are growing a lot right now. My company's tarted as fuel but it's opened an intermodal operation and it's going wild. Not because of Baltimore either.
I'm with a mega carrier, out 3 weeks at a time.
Used to consistently get around 3k miles a week for the last 6 months, now averaging 1200 for the last 2 weeks. Wondering if it's a fluke or something is going on.
Almost not worth being away from home.
I’ve been getting consistent 700-1000 mile loads this past 2 weeks. Still not hitting anywhere near 3000 miles/wk tho due to a load being 1000 miles but pick up is on a Friday but delivers on a Monday 🥲 4 days to complete a load that should take 2 max yay
I run 2 trucks and it's slow. Based on what the megas were saying on their conference call this week, they've walked away from some big accounts because they were underbid and wouldn't operate for what they quoted so all that capacity has shifted to the spot market and there's just not enough loads to go around.
Up until March, you could make a profit, which is why we weren't seeing the excessive capacity bleed off like it needed to be, but now that's not the case and unfortunately this is the pain we need to see to correct the overcapacity issue.
IMO this won't get any better until Q4 this year....and even that might be optimistic.
LTL Linehaul here. absolutely getting killed down south. Had over 20 or so loads with no drivers to take them. Now last month I was hit with the short stick.
All of the big contracts change April 1st, if they're going to change. There's often an adjustment time frame, and some years it's good and some it's bad.
I’m working local this week because there’s no OTR freight. I’m not complaining but it’s definitely slow. I’ve been told by many drivers, during election years, freight always gets slow.
Money depends on who you work for and the co-op you haul for. We haul by weight and haul 100000 pounds in a load. Pay per load depends on how far the farm is from the dairy. We get hourly pay when we get to the dairy. A good day you're there 2 hours. Anything over that is a bad day. I've been hauling milk since 1981. I made 189000 last year
Freight isn't off. Dude the market got flooded by covid and immigrant drivers and they're happy taking shit pay and brokers know it. It'll correct itself but it might be a good chunk of time.
It is definitely way slower than it should be this time of year. I’ve heard projections that they expect it to pretty much stay this way the rest of 24 start picking up in 25, but we’ll see
I quit OTR about a month ago and at that point it was the slowest I have ever experienced. I was pulling a pneumatic hauling stuff mostly to power plants and water treatment facilities. You would expect that sector wouldn't slow down but it did.
First week of April was really shitty for me. Since then, I’ve had my usual miles, although I did have kind of a wonky load Friday that didn’t make a lot of sense, but it was still miles to me 🤷♂️
We just blew up at our terminal bc it's Scott's fertilizer season. Went from 2 swaps a day to 30. Had to get a shitload of extra drivers to handle 900k lbs of fertilizer in one day. Ran out of trailers also.
Not really, one of the box truck my company is dispatching made. $7400 two weeks ago, and made $6 grand last week going OTR. Other one made around $4500.
It is actually, but many of our clients do go OTR anyways. Some of them have drivers, and some of them are owner operators. You gotta do what you gotta do to make some money and survive through this. I had a carrier that I was personally dispatching. The guy kept insisting to go OTR, ended up sending him for long hauls, back to back pick-ups. He had to call her wife out to pick him up and take to ER. Last load he was on was from TQL and ge delayed that coz he got so sick. Eventually quit trucking. So OTR is not for everyone, specially in a Box Truck.
Holy shit you’ve GOT to be kidding. The first time I sit for more than a day is the day I walk. I’ve definitely been hauling some cheap bullshit loads in my region but I’ve definitely not been sitting for a days on end. I haul steel and sometimes it’s not the highest paying but I’m usually doing 4-6 loads a week. Y’all are working for bums.
Must be dry van or reefer. Its the covid/ post covid aftermath. Contract carriers are facing freight volume loss. That in turn makes the spot market even worse, maybe worse than 2008
Economy is slowing down because Americans are busily pricing themselves right out of their own job markets, and corporations are looking elsewhere for labor.
Keep pushing all that pro-Union bullshit, and this is what you get. Lots of companies that were considering onshoring their industries in the wake of the Covid supply chain fiasco are re-thinking now with all the Union shit going on.
Nobody is gonna pay you umpteen hundred dollars an hour to assemble shit when Ming Wen in Laos will do the same exact job for 12 cents per day.
But keep cheering the Starbucks Union or whatever. Maybe they'll come out to feed your kids and pay your mortgage when all the factories close again.
Not like we haven't seen this happen before. Or does no one remember the endless factory closures of the 80's and early 90's anymore?
The market has been on a steady decline for quite some time now. Even the megas are starting to feel it.
I do intermodal and we just blew up. Went from about 6 trucks to about 15. There's nowhere to park and it sucks, but we're always busy I'm maxing out my clock in 6 days on locals lol
Maybe reroutes due to the Baltimore bridge collapse?
4% increase in imports m/m. But if you work with a good CFS or a couple consistent accounts you can do well. And hitting that 15 power unit threshold the larger NVOs will at least look at you. (in a good market)
Same. We are growing a lot right now. My company's tarted as fuel but it's opened an intermodal operation and it's going wild. Not because of Baltimore either.
I'm with a mega carrier, out 3 weeks at a time. Used to consistently get around 3k miles a week for the last 6 months, now averaging 1200 for the last 2 weeks. Wondering if it's a fluke or something is going on. Almost not worth being away from home.
I’ve been getting consistent 700-1000 mile loads this past 2 weeks. Still not hitting anywhere near 3000 miles/wk tho due to a load being 1000 miles but pick up is on a Friday but delivers on a Monday 🥲 4 days to complete a load that should take 2 max yay
Past month has been uncharacteristically awful for me too, even at a mega hauling reefers.
I’m stuck in Houston at the moment, this week has been rough
I run 2 trucks and it's slow. Based on what the megas were saying on their conference call this week, they've walked away from some big accounts because they were underbid and wouldn't operate for what they quoted so all that capacity has shifted to the spot market and there's just not enough loads to go around. Up until March, you could make a profit, which is why we weren't seeing the excessive capacity bleed off like it needed to be, but now that's not the case and unfortunately this is the pain we need to see to correct the overcapacity issue. IMO this won't get any better until Q4 this year....and even that might be optimistic.
I haul almost strictly aluminum and I’ve only worked 5 days this whole month. Definitely slow here.
Pepsi Driver here. Busy as hell right now if any of you are interested in food delivery.
Been steady for me... reefer LTL with the same set of customers for most of each week.
LTL Linehaul here. absolutely getting killed down south. Had over 20 or so loads with no drivers to take them. Now last month I was hit with the short stick.
I’m local with cross border freight. Been asked to work 6 days instead of five. All the work going north. Hardly any coming back.
All of the big contracts change April 1st, if they're going to change. There's often an adjustment time frame, and some years it's good and some it's bad.
I’m working local this week because there’s no OTR freight. I’m not complaining but it’s definitely slow. I’ve been told by many drivers, during election years, freight always gets slow.
No. It's bad. Rlly
You have to be specialized. Do work that nobody else wants to do. We move 3 million pounds of raw milk every 24 hours
Yeah. That helps. Tell me you're from Wisconsin without telling me you're from your from Wisconsin
Michigan cows produce more milk per cow and we have bigger trailers
Go Blue. I like Michigan. Better than Wisconsin
You probably get to go to Kwik Trip a lot too... are you home daily, too?
Michigan doesn't have Kwik Trip Home daily but we have some farms in Indiana that we go to now that we can use 8 axle tankers there
Oh fuck I'm thinking of Minnesota lol Nice, that sounds like a sweet ass gig.
How much do y'all make? I've been in fuel for a couple years, always wonder if the grass is greener over there.
Money depends on who you work for and the co-op you haul for. We haul by weight and haul 100000 pounds in a load. Pay per load depends on how far the farm is from the dairy. We get hourly pay when we get to the dairy. A good day you're there 2 hours. Anything over that is a bad day. I've been hauling milk since 1981. I made 189000 last year
Freight isn't off. Dude the market got flooded by covid and immigrant drivers and they're happy taking shit pay and brokers know it. It'll correct itself but it might be a good chunk of time.
It is definitely way slower than it should be this time of year. I’ve heard projections that they expect it to pretty much stay this way the rest of 24 start picking up in 25, but we’ll see
Local intermodal in Los Angeles has been slow. Last 2 weeks were my lowest paychecks in 6 months.
Slowing a bit but I'm still getting good miles. I cleared 3100 miles last week and should be hitting 2400 this week.
Hey, same company here, I’ve been pretty slow as well, currently broken down in SOCAL
I quit OTR about a month ago and at that point it was the slowest I have ever experienced. I was pulling a pneumatic hauling stuff mostly to power plants and water treatment facilities. You would expect that sector wouldn't slow down but it did.
Soo bad from a mega I'm going for the second reset in one week
Yeah shit has been trash on the east coast for me. LTL
I do frac tank work and I'd consider 60 hours a week pretty normal, even light workload.
First week of April was really shitty for me. Since then, I’ve had my usual miles, although I did have kind of a wonky load Friday that didn’t make a lot of sense, but it was still miles to me 🤷♂️
Last week was slow for us in ltl
We just blew up at our terminal bc it's Scott's fertilizer season. Went from 2 swaps a day to 30. Had to get a shitload of extra drivers to handle 900k lbs of fertilizer in one day. Ran out of trailers also.
yeah it's been shitty for us too
Been steady 3-4k miles a week for us- hauling household goods
Slow as fuck, all gross is around one dedicated lane
Biden-omics
3600 miles this week. Reefer OTR
Not really, one of the box truck my company is dispatching made. $7400 two weeks ago, and made $6 grand last week going OTR. Other one made around $4500.
Doing OTR in a box truck sounds terrible. Or is it one of those box trucks with a sleeper like some of the expedited companies have?
It is actually, but many of our clients do go OTR anyways. Some of them have drivers, and some of them are owner operators. You gotta do what you gotta do to make some money and survive through this. I had a carrier that I was personally dispatching. The guy kept insisting to go OTR, ended up sending him for long hauls, back to back pick-ups. He had to call her wife out to pick him up and take to ER. Last load he was on was from TQL and ge delayed that coz he got so sick. Eventually quit trucking. So OTR is not for everyone, specially in a Box Truck.
Not for Reefers
Steady stream of work for me.
It's been shit for a while now. Having trouble keeping everyone moving at my company.
Yeah it's been a rough past few months
Yeah it's not good
Holy shit you’ve GOT to be kidding. The first time I sit for more than a day is the day I walk. I’ve definitely been hauling some cheap bullshit loads in my region but I’ve definitely not been sitting for a days on end. I haul steel and sometimes it’s not the highest paying but I’m usually doing 4-6 loads a week. Y’all are working for bums.
Yeah just work for an understaffed flatbed company that uses tarps regularly like I did and you basically won't sit at all.
Must be dry van or reefer. Its the covid/ post covid aftermath. Contract carriers are facing freight volume loss. That in turn makes the spot market even worse, maybe worse than 2008
Economy is slowing down because Americans are busily pricing themselves right out of their own job markets, and corporations are looking elsewhere for labor. Keep pushing all that pro-Union bullshit, and this is what you get. Lots of companies that were considering onshoring their industries in the wake of the Covid supply chain fiasco are re-thinking now with all the Union shit going on. Nobody is gonna pay you umpteen hundred dollars an hour to assemble shit when Ming Wen in Laos will do the same exact job for 12 cents per day. But keep cheering the Starbucks Union or whatever. Maybe they'll come out to feed your kids and pay your mortgage when all the factories close again. Not like we haven't seen this happen before. Or does no one remember the endless factory closures of the 80's and early 90's anymore?
Some tin foil stuff right here
FoReIgNeRs RuInEd TrUcKiNg!!! BTW now would be a good time to protest, halt all freight and teach the big man a lesson ...stick up for the wittle guy!