I can’t find loads!!!

Make some phone calls, they are still out there

 

This is why you should make relationships with multiple brokers... Dont just play the load boards.

 

Why cant you? TTR is not exactly a load board lol

 

Welcome to the club

 

Park and go home. Put your whole company on unemployment.

Sell a few trucks and trailers at a loss until you are covered for the year with the light bill etc.

 

Shut it down driver. Not making money at home, not spending none either.

 

Do you own any trucks? Even one truck? You've started several posts asking how to open a dump truck business. I think you also told us you're nineteen years old.
What's the story?

 

It's bad in the southeast trying to go up. I use several load boards. As for brokers I have several that I've worked with for years and it's BAD. Warehouses are full, Brokers bouncing checks (NSF), factoring company having me to verify everyone now regardless of product or past rating, getting loads dropped b4 I get rate con, and so forth. Coming down from Northeast I have no problem with but going up market is getting dry. What is out there is about a $1 a mile. Yesterday I talked to one broker who needed someone with a TWIC card to get a load out of Wilmington, NC at the port. He asked me what I needed. I told him $1100 (which was still low going to PA but was trying to compromise) he said well been doing these at $600. Stuck to my guns and within 1-2 mins he went up to $1000. I mean come on dude this was the day b4 the load goes out not day of and if you can pay that you can pay the $1100. Full load at that. He got mad at me for sticking to my guns. These brokers are "wage gauging" and we need to turn them into the attorney general (federal not state). Texas already looking at it on their end. I still have a handful that are being honest yet they're struggling to move loads due to their competitors are moving them cheaper. They should federally mandate brokers to disclose all pricing and information to us. A real estate broker has to why not them? They include price of load and fuel but what about increase with our insurance. I had to go from putting 6 trucks & trailers on the road to 3 trucks and 6 trailers (trailers have to have ins due to still paying on them). What I am paying for 3 trucks and 6 trailers I was paying for all of my equipment (little over $50k and that is with no accidents!). If I put all my equipment on insurance would be over $100k plus. Also beware of blind loads they are trying to get you to do medical supplies and don't want to disclose the information about what you are hauling until you get it. Had a load of the c-95 masks that they screwed me over with. Learned a lesson with that one.