Sidman82, I can just hear my boat, and the fish calling I live about 150 yards from the Intercoastal Waterway in SW Florida and the boat will be in the water within an hour of setting the parking brake

 

Sounds nice, Walking Eagle. Have you ever hauled for Butch @ LDH corp. He is in GA and does specialized oversize. He is my new brother-in-laws uncle. I will be doing some work with him in the near future. I have only done RGN for about 5 years about 15 years ago, and I am going to get back into it with LDH.
I have experience moving machines, like D-8's and 980's. I would like to move much bigger things before I move on. Have fun fishing.

 

Name kinda rings a bell, but not the initials LDH. Would have to go back thru my "stuff" and look, I have kept all the agents, shippers and recievers I have worked with over the past 20 years doing this Never know where you might find a load. What part of Ga. is he in ? That is how I file it.
Good luck with getting back into HH, the only place to make $$$$s at the minute in trucking.

 

Main hub is out of Savanah and another in Atlanta. Also a few more up North and West.

 

Probably have then as I have hauled quite a few large loads out of the port of Savanah, in fact that is where the load I am going to pick up in Ca. next month is going, if we can figure out a route to get it there.

 

Thanks for the replys.

Yep...it's SLOW.

Sat in Orange, TX from noon Friday till noon Monday.
Load of pipe from Houston to Hughes Springs, TX then over to Daingerfield for a load of shingles to Houma, LA. That got me to Wednesday.

Sat empty at the Buena Vista, LA truck plaza till I FINALLY got a load out of Bayou Steel in LaPlace Friday at 1pm to Ashland City, TN for Monday...

I knew things were bad when I pulled up to door 5 at Bayou Steel and the supervisor looked at me with a strange look then got on his radio and said "Well I'll be a sonuvabitch...GET UP BOYS AND GIRLS....WE DONE GOT OURSELVES A TRUCK TO LOAD..."

 

I work for Swift and am based out of the New Boston, MI terminal and the place is packed with drivers with no loads. I was thinking it was because Michigan is so automobile based and the manufactures are cutting down production due to over stock, but I am thinking the lack of freight is much broader than that. YIKES :cry:

 

We need to expect freight to slow along with the rest of the economy. If products are not moving or construction is not doing much then there is no need for trucks to haul the freight. I read somewhere that JB Hunt is taking about 1300 trucks off the road. This is a cyclical slower time of year for freight. It is slower than usually due to the general slow down in the economy. It has likely helped that some capacity has been taken out of the mix with recent bankruptcy filings. You can't take over 20,000 carriers out of the market in a single year and not expect that it will have an effect.

 

As long as the rest of the world, especialy Arab countries, keeps buying I don't think there will be much of a slowdown in OD or open trailer freight, as long as you don't mind going into the ports. Tuesday when I unloaded at Port of Baltimore with an OD Case load I was in there right after 9am cerfew and was only about 20 in line, when I came out of shed 12 at about at about 1pm there must have been 60 trucks lined up (who knows how many in the yard) at least 20 of them with Case tractors.
The load I am taking into Miami I know there were 11 more all going to Venezuela.

 

Bankruptcy doesn't mean that we'll suddenly see an upswing. The companies can still function(depending on the type of bankruptcy).