This is what i posted on my truck, listed in Denver Colorado!
I am dead heading 528 miles empty to Idaho and Northern Utah where freight is 2.00+ per mile I will NOT haul Colorado/Denvers CHEAP freight!
Anything below 1.80 per mile is CHEAP freight!!!!!
Getloaded truck posting !!!!
Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by 2hellandback, Apr 12, 2011.
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On second thought maybe you should consider having your company tell you (the company's driver) that they have to pay that deadhead out of thier own pocket because it was thier choice not to take a load from there. I make this statement assuming that your company's money is completely seperate from your personal money. -
The idea is when you are getting a load into an area with cheap freight that you are getting enough to DH to better freight or cover the difference to average freight out. This is a personal choice as to what you want to do. But the more that can get the DH rate built in and hold to some sort of values the better the industry will be as a whole.
Last load I took to Denver I did with two things in mind. First, it was a long shot that delivering on Thursday that I was going to get my rate for a Thursday reload. Second, I would have to sit Thursday and wait till Friday morning when someone got stuck with a load.
And that is what happened. CRE truck broke down and they paid to get it moved.Native Dancer Thanks this. -
Ok that makes a little more sense to take into account for the DH before taking to load. I have been telling my fiance that when she accepts a load for us she has to be thinking about the load after that and maybe even one after that. I still don't know if i would want to spend that kind of money a couple hundred dollars maybe but 800 seems a bit high to me.
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I won't head to Denver for less than $2.25 a mile pulling a SNI trailer, and that is what most of their loads pay going that way. But the DH to KS or NE kills the profit, but sometimes it works out ok.
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Biggest mistakes I make is chasing the money and taking a load to a market I am not familiar with. -
And it is too bad because I like going that way every once in a while.
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