Would you consider this 'cheap'?

Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by windsmith, Nov 28, 2012.

  1. windsmith

    windsmith Road Train Member

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    Floor loaded boxed knockdown furniture, driver tailgate, 22 stops, picks up near Dallas, ends up in Rhode Island.

    Offered first at $4200, now at $4700. Picks up today 11/28, finishes end of day 12/6. Delivers to retail locations in strip malls.

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    I bid $3.39 / mile, $6700 plus $300 for tolls for $7k all-in. I got shocked silence, and then the statement that they cover 30 of these a week at the rates they're offering. :|
     
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  3. RedForeman

    RedForeman Momentum Conservationist

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    I'm speechless. When I saw 9 days on the truck (conservative, cause you know that load won't go perfect) and 22 stops my brain melted right there. Yet you actually plugged all those stops into a Google map. Awesome.

    Probably best to let the other guy take that one. Or maybe put a UPS label on each box. IMO you spent way too much time with that quote. He's paying just under $600/day with a ton of stops and driver assist, assuming it all comes off perfect. And it finals in a cheap reload area with toll roads to everywhere. I think your offer was too low. Doing a swag at it for $800/day + $50/stop puts me at $7500, and that doesn't include consideration that you'll end up in RI, buying your way west on a toll road.
     
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  4. jbourque

    jbourque Heavy Load Member

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    at $50 per stop after first stop and maybe $100.00 unload fee, you might come out allright. but if you have to haul a cheap back it would take away some of the revenue. you should be payed for the stops, more than likely the broker is and he is putting your stop pay in his pocket, and that should b your stop pay period. jon
     
  5. windsmith

    windsmith Road Train Member

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    The last email I got from them had the rate at $5k, and it's no longer posted. So somebody took it at that rate.
     
  6. mcgoo422000

    mcgoo422000 Medium Load Member

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    I wouldn't even think about a load like that, if they paid in gold bars.
    I see twenty two ways not to get paid.
    I did a six stop once deliver counter top slabs not worth the 50 dollar a stop extra.
    the broker said they move them all day for that I'd say have at it.
     
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  7. HDFatboy

    HDFatboy Light Load Member

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    I wouldn't take it no matter what it paid. 22 stops, all in major metropolitan areas in the northeast.
     
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  8. mcgoo422000

    mcgoo422000 Medium Load Member

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    You should be glad divine intervention has stepped in to save you.
     
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  9. Casual Trucker

    Casual Trucker Medium Load Member

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    $1.50/mile + 0.70 Cpm Fuel surcharge + 21 Stops @ $120 per stop and $20 per stop for driver assist + $100 /day Layover to unload the next stop
    Providing that I get to Kick the shipper where the sun don't shine just for proposing such a shipment.


     
  10. socal

    socal Medium Load Member

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    At a reputable ltl freight co. that load would be 8k in billable freight Easy. Thats why they are farming it out. To cheap to pay for the work and true classification of freight.
     
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  11. SHC

    SHC Spoiled Rotten Brat O/O

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    Pier 1 Imports stuff???? I did one of those runs from Dallas up to Tulsa. I only had 3 stops, but had to unload the whole #### thing myself. Talk about brutal !!!! paid good, but I wouldn't ever do it again.
     
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