northeast rates for power only opinion

can you unload 2 or more loads per day, or just one. that will tell if you can live with these rates.

 

ok if you can get some off at night,might work out, try some of the short runs keep track of time gate to gate. longer runs look to be short on $.

 

Stay a way from trips under 500 miles unless you get what you need daily to survive trucking when you added all up and you don't take home 2000/week you will Loose your truck.a good company driver job should pay you 1000/week with no truck payment,insurance maintenance etc.

 

I very seldom do any trip over 500 miles. My average length of haul is 340 miles 25% of that deadhead miles. I do a lot of 100 miles runs it's easy money. The rates OP posted are roughly half of what I'll accept as a minimum and I'm not paying any tolls or fighting east coast traffic. IMO those rates are very poor and look almost spot on exactly like a broker's initial offering that they'd hope any prospective carrier would just take without haggling. Makes no difference that it's power only and drop n hook. The rates are rock bottom.

 

X2 what Rollin coal said.
Have a minimum that a load gets on your truck for. Regardless of how short the miles. I'm in the northeast, currently leased. If its on a trailer I hook it has a minimum $ amount even if its going 1 mile.

 

Out of those you listed I would go to Long Island daily. That surcharge would cover your fuel and then some. Even in metro traffic Kearny to Melville isn't a bad turn.

 

You'll go broke fast with those numbers. Even doing 2 loads a day.

 

The only ones I could see myself doing are the Edison and Hackensack and only it were drop and hook and if there was a sufficient volume of loads daily, like 6-7. It looks like its typical cheap container work.