January 2016 locations
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jujubeans
OVM Project Manager
That dang snow is mucking things up...
Murraycroexp
Veteran Expediter
Depends on the carrier. Most of the loads we see/get out of LA are around New Orleans. Occasionally B.R. or Hammond.
Murraycroexp
Veteran Expediter
Houston isn't what it used to be. Birmingham either for that matter. HeII, the whole country isn't what it used to be.
members snickered a few years ago when I predicted a downward trend in the business....so be it....i flip them the bird....
1 example of a lost load to our industry...a few years years ago I was picking a load up in Bowling Green KY....next to me this old gent in a pick up truck they loaded 1 skid on him....I talked with him.....turns out this fellow is the plant managers father in law...and he makes a few bucks taking the skid over to the Toyota plant in Gtown....
yet another I was loading up at a popular shipper in San Antonio...when a gooseneck pickup showed up with 4 pallets from Laredo...they had taken something to the Caruuzo oil fields and now picked this up for fuel back to Oklahoma...load lost to sister business...
yet another I was loading up at a popular shipper in San Antonio...when a gooseneck pickup showed up with 4 pallets from Laredo...they had taken something to the Caruuzo oil fields and now picked this up for fuel back to Oklahoma...load lost to sister business...
Murraycroexp
Veteran Expediter
Yes, there are WAY more pieces to this puzzle than it seems. Some people like to blame yellow trucks, foreigners, small carriers (like us), big carriers (for flooding the market with trucks), lower fuel costs (for dropping all-in rates), higher insurance costs, higher admin costs, higher truck costs, etc.
In a way, I would be willing to bet almost everyone is right.
Sylectus available truck count earlier this week was almost 19,000. I've never seen it that high. Not that I'm an authority on any of this. I just like to hear myself speak. LOL!!!
your CEO badge now means you are a smart guy....LOL
This business has been in a downturn since it peaked in 2005 and it will never get back to where it was. Just wait until the fuel prices return to $4-5/gal and see how many people jump ship because the rates aren't going to support it. JMHO.
Yea but those folks with the goosenecks are crying right now.
with so many gas powered sprinter type van out there now yet another income stream waits to be tapped...
a "structured gas fuel surcharge".....it would bring in good revenue and much easier to impliment now...
a "structured gas fuel surcharge".....it would bring in good revenue and much easier to impliment now...
oil industry is in the tank.....no new drilling....they will be intruding into our loads even more now....they are probably worse shape then us...
Brother in law jumped on the fracking boom, bought 4 trucks... Wanna buy 4 trucks?
Got. Fatty on the line going to Tupelo.. Gotta fight it to get it in the boat!
......back to the hole......
i had a nibble on the line same time you did.....appears just a bait thief...
Very competitive but not anywhere as close to being "bad" as some previous years. I do think it is getting tougher for the single operator though. The investment verses the exposure continues to climb. For folks that are already established, it is much different because we can spread those costs over a lot of vehicles and our margins per truck are much different than a one truck operation. All one has to do is look at rates and look at the investment and operational side. Don't need to go any deeper than that. Three quarters of our fleet are all former owner operators.
and just why is that Dave in your opinion....why did they sell their unit and drive for a fleet?