Is Texas Really As Under Serviced As The Board Shows For Hoppers?

Um ...... 95k with 7 axles in Nebraska, the other three your skewed

hell yes come on down and clean up all this cheap freight thats posted on the board..... theres the one guy that will let you haul tyler to mary neal for 28 per ton..... just be ready to dead head 2 to 300 miles for a decent load back , unless your good with 100 mile dead head and then a buck per mile.

then you can suck up some of that high dollar gavilon freight...nuff said , right ?

lets not forget the other guys that will keep you loaded like hansen mueller , you can load oats everyday out of houston to fort worth for around 400 bucksoh wait thats aledo 300 miles.....

then theres the guy that will load you with gravel if you have an end dump..gravy haul it is..... 200 miles for i think it was 13 per ton last time i checked

come on man come on down...which stuff you gonna haul first..its all here waitin and can all be yours

oh hell i almost forgot all the cream of the crop frac sand that pays 1.50 or a little better....your trucks do have inverters , refrigerators and mocrowaves ...right ?

Everyone here has nailed it. Too many trucks, too many drivers without license (bc they don' have to have a CDL), too many brokers that have been able to get cheap trucks to haul freight for less than cheap. SO YES, come on down and take advantage of losing everything you have worked for. BC you can sit in bumper to bumper traffic all day long, then long lines to load n unload will give you plenty if time to think.

So same shit different day basically, Lots of steers and (well you know) so lots of BS, Ill make sure we all bring our rubber boots. The world is the same everywhere. But again the same question comes to mind, "What are you doing to fix it?". In our neck of the woods some of us carriers got took advantage of this ELD mandate that removed the pretenders and the part time commodity carriers. We netoworked got together and started knocing on doors. Now a few 10-25 power units companies as a group have more pull and the brokers quickly lose their priority sequence wiht the shippers. Its not that hard to get the broker sout of the way. Remember they dont own a thing and have no investment risk. Therefore they have no way to bail out the customer when S hits the fan and there is a dairy out of feed. The big shippers ustilize the boker sbecause they feel anyone with under 10 trucks is a nucince. Shipping Commodities requires lots of steel and horse power. So if your small they think its to many moving parts to deal with, they rather go to the scumbags and let them make their nut to deal with the BS. But now if 10 smaller carriers network together as a group you have 20 trucks and now your somebody and the shippers will giv eyou a better rate because they know they may get serviced now in a pinch and all the time.

I know you can't get truckers to work together 99% of the time because everyone wants to cut the throat of the next person even though you cant handle everything on your own. But start workign together for once and you mgiht see a difference.

Kind of Sorry I asked, But theres my two sense good luck to you all.

Thanks for the head sup, they do seem a bit on the soft side. Long haul seems a bit better, but looks like the local stuf is just like up North. The new laws basically shut down the small fleets (ma&pops / parttime farmers) so they are cutting each others throats on the local to stay alive sicne they dont want to bother with the interstate laws and regs. It will come with time.

Been this way for as long as I can remember. Texas has different intrastate hos than interstate guys have. Come dec 2019 Texas intrastate will have the same hos as current but will mirror the feds for ELD requirements. Don’t think the rates will change much after that either.