Getloaded truck posting !!!!

Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by 2hellandback, Apr 12, 2011.

  1. 2hellandback

    2hellandback Heavy Load Member

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    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!!!!!
     
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  3. jmcclelland2004

    jmcclelland2004 Light Load Member

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    I know I am new here but I just ran 528 miles through my CPM calc and that comes to a loss of $823.68 at a CPM of 1.56. While I understand nobody wants to haul cheap freight I would imagine you could have gotten something going in the direction you wanted to kill some of that overhead. I know that morality takes a play in whether or not to take a load but sometimes buisness sense needs to take over. Ask yourself this, if you had a second truck and driver would your company allow that driver to run your truck on your dime for $800 just because they did not want to haul from somewhere; Or would your company tell the driver to find something that will cover some of the cost and you will pick up the rest of the bill and possibly lower the overhead to $0-200, or maybe just end up making a couple cents per mile. I know that if someone is always getting freight only making a couple cents per mile they will go out of buisness, however if you are going to move the truck anyway you might as well get paid for it.
    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.
     
  4. BigBadBill

    BigBadBill Bullishly Optimistic

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    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.
     
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  5. jmcclelland2004

    jmcclelland2004 Light Load Member

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    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.
     
  6. SHC

    SHC Spoiled Rotten Brat O/O

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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.
     
  7. BigBadBill

    BigBadBill Bullishly Optimistic

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    And you need to figure out a lane or region and stick with that if you want to get a consistant better rate. You develop a repuation with brokers that work the area, you have a better chance of getting direct business because you know the market and you have less chances of making a big mistake on taking a load to cheap when you have no good reloads.

    Biggest mistakes I make is chasing the money and taking a load to a market I am not familiar with.
     
  8. BigBadBill

    BigBadBill Bullishly Optimistic

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    One advantage you have is that you can see what is available coming out before you take a load. It's hard to get a good rate out of Denver when you are looking 2-3 days out.

    And it is too bad because I like going that way every once in a while.
     
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