Okay...is the $2.00 per loaded mile average BS or not? plus other ????

I can only say to you do not sign on all 3 trucks with CRST Malone. You can run around Texas all you want for cheap freight. Getting out will be the big issue. As for average $2.00 a mile....all BS you may average $1.00 a mile. There are good paying loads on the load board and from agents, however they are all dead end. You will be deadheading an average 150-200 if not more miles anywhere. Broker load are cheap. Please do your homework first. Have your recruiter show you the loadboard. Try to find a load and a backhaul include deadhead miles and figure it out for yourself. Don't be star-eyed before you do the math. Agents all own 12 or more trucks (or they aren't allowed to sign on with CRST Malone) and their trucks come first. Test the waters first.

 

Im with Malone and I do my best not to put anything on my trailer that isn't paying the truck $2.00. Does that ALWAYS happen? No, but once you learn the system you can do very well for yourself. I just had my best week ever last week....I sent over $2700 to the house. You can make money here, but it will take awhile to learn the system.

On the other hand why not lease on with a company out of Houston that mainly hauls pipe. I met a guy last weeek that stays within a 500 mile radius of Houston (mainly hauling pipe) and he clears over $2000 a week. Just a thought.

 

I'd pass on Malone if I owned trucks and choose someone with a little more resources and financial backing in the industry.

 

Spoken like a true Landstar agent. We have plenty of resources and financial backing . Go away troll.

 

Just like these guys told you its just a gimic and hell two dollar a mile freight is out there but it aint like it use to be. They just want to add more truck to their fleet to replace the truck that left after falling for that gimic. Tell them you want a contract stating that you will average 2$ per mile, they wont do it

 

If you stay in there main running area you can average $2.00 a mile. If you choose to run into Texas and the 11 Western States you won't find $2.00 a mile freight coming back. I occasionally will take a load out West that is paying killer money, knowing full well that coming back East I won't get near the price I want. It's not a Gimic, you have either never been here, or you don't have the common sense and business knowledge, to go out and find the good freight from the agents. Nothing is going to be given to you here, you have to actually be proactive and make calls and hunt on the load board for the good paying loads. If you want a dispatcher and load planner to find your loads this isn't the place for you.

 

I can honestly from experience tell you that you will not average $2.00 a mile no matter how good you are with the system. Like I said before...good paying runs are out there however.. The deadhead out of there is 150-250 miles back to the freight box. So subtract the long deadhead from the mileage and you won't net $2.00 a mile. As I said before have your recruiter show you the loadboard. Find a load you see that pays well then do a radius search from the city and state of your destination and you won't find anything within 100 miles that pays $2.00 a mile to the truck. Texas you will be able to run around in all day but the loads are not $2.00 a mile. To stay in the box you will have to run in Iowa Illinois Indiana and Ohio. That's where you will find the better paying loads with less deadhead. Feel free to ask more questions. I will always tell you the truth.

 

Like Landstar?

 

I can tell you this, im an O/O for a good company majority of my frieght starts at 2.00 mile. I know a few O/O for Malone and they say run away fast and furious! i looked inti them about 3 years ago and was ttold to run. If you run Texas going in is good coming out is bad unless you pull OD loads and even those arent that good anymore out of TX, do some research look around the net and talk to O/O that work for Malone. But i would look else where!