freight goes where people are and where business is.
there is a current flow to freight lanes, just like they used to use the rivers to move most of the freight from north to south, there are freight rivers from region to region that you can’t see unless you saw the data of freight volumes on a chart.
some places make stuff and buy stuff, other places buy more stuff than they make, other places make more stuff than they buy.
the more population dense a region is the more stuff they buy. New York / New Jersey / “north east” is the most population dense so they buy way more than they make, if you take a load there there for ok money most of the loads leaving are garbage money.
Texas makes stuff like crazy, there is always stuff leaving Texas, it’s one of top 3 largest international ports, the largest petrochemical area, population dense and manufacturing like crazy. Texas is a great place to leave. 
the Midwest makes way more than they buy, less population dense and basically all the manufacturing to all 4 horizons in one spot, plus good rates coming out to get their stuff to the buyers. the Midwest you can go there and bounce around for a while, and it’s not hard to get out when you’re ready to leave.
if the big nodes are Texas, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Minneapolis, u want to figure out the timing of how to get out for enough, make enough across the week, then how to get back for enough. find spots that pay good to leave, then string together whatever u need to do to position yourself to get back to the spot that pays good to leave and do it again. or find a spot that’s easy to leave, go somewhere where there’s a constant feeding frenzy and just bounce around for two weeks, then go back to the spot that’s easy to leave.
it’s hard in general to leave the northeast and Florida, it’s easy to leave Texas and Chicago, the midwest is a cornfed big boy that’s always hungry and also always has something to put on your trailer. we don’t talk about California.
