I have a couple trucks i was wanting to lease to a carrier that hauls livestock. Can anyone give me some leads, and what is considered a good rate for a o/o hauling livestock?

Holler at bullhaulerswife, maybe she has a few leads for ya...

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My childhood dream of becoming a truck driver turned into a nightmare!

Ok, if you are leasing on, is he taking care of your fuel, ifta, authority, and reporting?

We run under our own authority. So the pay would be different for you.

Here's what I can tell you to expect:

You will more than likely run at night, during the summer months, have to keep the animals alive. LOL And in the winter, you will run during the day.

Expect quite a few MT miles, ours range from 1/4 to1/3, because of distance to get your next load. Plus, your not going to be picking up loads in town, you will be traveling a lot of gravel roads to get to feed lots, ranches, etc. Get yourself a book called Beef Spotters, it will help you, finding the feed lots and Ranches. Not all of them are in it, but a good majority of them are.

Expect to use fuel. There is a huge drag on those trailers, and most cases the ranchers or lots will want to load you heavy. Get your overweight permits for that. It will save you quite a bit.

What radius are you planning on running. Hubby wouldn't take any loads that required the cattle to be on his truck longer than a 600 mile day, with a couple hour wait time to unload.

You will find that the organics will pay better than the steroid fed cattle will, but you will have to wash out the trailer to haul them. Wash outs will eat quite a bit of your profit.

Since you are leasing on, I'm not sure what to tell you to expect for income.

Your best bet is to talk to other drivers that are leased onto this company, and see how long they have been there, how well they are treated, and how much they average per mile.

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i know of a couple guys in montana that are lookin....but i dought ya wanna work that far from home

Those Montana runs are CRAZY. LOL Utah as well, long and grueling.

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thats what i hear form a couple of guys i know....hence the fact i dont do it!!!

i get tired of drivin after 16 hours LOL

miles city to grand island in one night aint my idea of a good time!!!

Nope, I hear you there. And theres no stopping once they are on the truck. They tried to get hubby to take some of those, and he told them to find someone else to do them.

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my one friend does nothing but those runs, loaded heavy with "fats" as he calls em

but hey he did pay off a new truck and trailer in 18 months....LOL

and he says i need a bigger truck to run with him....so i guess ill just have to keep waitin to hual unprocessed steaks

Thanks for the feed back, I got ahold of a fellow in IN who told me Eastern was lookin for o/o, so i called him, he too told me i would need my own auth. Im just sick of pulling these $1.25- 1.50 pm loads. I have heard from different drivers that livestock was the way to go. Ill have to look in to getting my own authority, cause im just about done hauling this cheap frieght. Also he quoted me about $ 3.80 going out and $2.15-$2.50 comming in. dont sound bad. As far as long night during the summer and long and long days in the winter.... im doing that already, hualing J.I.T freight. Any other feed back would be greatly appreiciated.

Who carries insurance in case of death loss? In my area (east-central nebraska) lots of guys rent pasture in the sandhills in the summer and truck their cattle out there in the spring, truck them back in the fall to pasture on cornstalks and winter in the lot. A friend that does this told me to get my CDL and do that in the spring and fall, haul grain in the summer, take winters off.