LOL...speak for yourself. Have NEVER...Will NEVER. No excuses. It seems there are alot of EXCUSES for it. Go out there and ask any CEO, Buyer, Seller, Exec, Broker...When it comes to YOUR business there are NO excuses. Yet, many truck drivers give sooooo many EXCUSES for low rates. Use less time with your "spreadsheets" and more time towards finding and working to raise your profits is a smarter way to run your business. What is put on paper doesnt mean its successful. Image is golden. Be safe out there drivers.
I do not and will not pull cheap freight!
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However, I feel that now my spreadsheets are basically set up how I want them. Now they basically do my thinking for me, they run the numbers for me so I don't have to. All I have to do is enter the data (which needs to be recorded anyways). And doesn't that free up time for me to work on raising my profits as you describe ?SheepDog Thanks this. -
Well done!! Educate, prepare and control your outflows. The same for your net income in your personal life!
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Remember.....the only problems I have are the ones I CANT do anything about, therefore I have no problems......a message to try to understand and live by.
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Keep it very simple, inflows minus outflows, simple, understand the simplicities of it, educate, prepare and prosper. Do the math. What is an acceptable net taxable income per mile for an O/O who drives 100 K to 120 K per year? .50.............65...........80........1.00? A new truck a used truck it all boils down to net taxable income......then it becomes a personal matter. Drive a business with a truck!!
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The market is going to have a large influence on your inflows. If you do the hard work, not drive more, educate, and prepare you can find additional available cash from reducing your outflows. Dont be like "everybody else" become a top 10% wage earner. They are up there just like the bottom 10%. where are you? where do ypu want to be? How do you get there? Education and keeping simple numbers and understand them. A sheet of paper and 30 minutes a month will do it. Top out and track on paper every fuel stop so ypu read and understand it.
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I was thinking the same thing.
I can earn the same or more revenue running less miles and don't have to kill myself doing it by working so hard.HwyPrsnr Thanks this. -
It was an hypothitical question posed to an industry standard. Not to anyones individual circumstance. It is intended to get people to think about their business and where thy want to go with it. 80k miles annually 200 miles at a time can certainly be harder and cost more per mile than 120k miles 1200 miles at a time. By hard work I mean the education and preperation required to help make sound business choices to increase inflows and reduce outflows in any paticular market.
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