Where are all the reefers to go Western Canada
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There is a shortage of Western Canada to ON loads. You will pay a premium to move your freight or make rounder's if possible.
When the market is so unbalanced on a lane I dont know if the trucks are siting in Western Canada trying to get back to ON or redeployed on other lanes.
Plus there are many drivers that spend the winter in warmer climates and return in the spring which causes a shortage of trucks.
When the market is so unbalanced on a lane I dont know if the trucks are siting in Western Canada trying to get back to ON or redeployed on other lanes.
Plus there are many drivers that spend the winter in warmer climates and return in the spring which causes a shortage of trucks.
It is tough all over not just for trucks it is for loads too and rates suck
tons of trucks sitting in western Canada and getting upset because sitting there
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Produce and consumer packaged foods are paying well again. You wont find reefers on this lane for a while - they have all gone cross border. Rates are back down to 5000 cad on to bc and 5000 bc to on
has it really? I believe some folks are still running it one way for mid 7's to low 8's. We dont run the lane but curious, with fuel prices as they are now, 5k seems extremely low to run cross country.
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No wonder shippers get excited when a small handful of carriers start discounting their rates when business gets a little slow. Remember, it only takes a couple of carriers to drop their drawers and shippers figure their rates are now the new normal. And why wouldn’t they? Who doesn’t like to get things at a discount? What young and ambitious, up and coming transportation manager in their right mind would turn down low rates that help to make him look good to upper management? The result of these actions by a few participants cascades thru the industry as not only shippers ask for these same low rates, but some brokers start to use them as a benchmark for quoting. It is hard to say who does the most damage to rates…..a greedy, who gives a f*** freight broker, or an unprepared, inexperienced, frightened carrier? Hmmmmm?
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Agreed - we run a regular lane ... and once in a while need to get a spot load ... low and behold it is actually 1k-1.5K less than the 'normal' rate where you make a living.... %*^$*& to the carriers who agree to move it at that rate
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$5-5500 BC to ON these days. Lots of capacity moving over to cross-border and cross-border rates have been taking a hit because of this, at least how things are in Western Canada.
