bull wagon ?

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.

 

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

 

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.