Why ya'll trying to make your Ferrari or boat or vacation house payments on one or 2 of my shipments? Maybe buy something a little cheaper next time. [/rant]
It’s one of the few times we get to make the rules car transport rates are very strong right now , life is good .
You’re supposed to be 6 feet away from everything, there’s no way you know for sure that this is page 1. The end.
I think it depends. The reefer rates are down, because of excess transport availability. Lots of $1/mi loads getting hauled, these days.
I would have happily paid $1/mi...the quote from SOCAL to WI was over $6,000....~44klbs gross dry van...dock to dock...nothing fancy. Thats thru broker so their making their money but damn.... If your hauling freight for a living head to CA.
You know your people well.... this is crazy....this country was built on paying truckers barely above a subsistence wage. We need to get back to that....People went into trucking for the lifestyle not money. We need a Smokey and the Bandit remake to get the kids into trucking and drive these rates down.
that's a long way but 6k seems like on the upper end of things. Maybe back hauls suck out of wherever you are going to in WI. My old job we had our own trucking and when we ran out of trucks we had a dedicated broker and his prices were always bullshit and high.
Coming out of Cali was always brutal. The last company was based just north of LA. New company is based in Texas. We did a full truckload from Dallas to north LA for $2000. A week later and Dallas to Vegas was $2200 for the same truck. If they were coming out of LA to Vegas it would have been at least $3K.
Had two vehicles hauled from Nashville down to central Florida two weeks ago. Excellent carrier, local guy, very professional and it was .72 per mile.
That’s roughly the going rate. On an 8-car that’s $5.76/mi and a 9-car would be $6.48/mi, to the truck. That’s good money. Plus, there are a lot of loads back up out of FL, with all the manufacturer/agent auctions, snowbirds, etc.
