I'd take the longer one of course.

But I go back to my original statement. The 250 run should have paid $600 or better to begin with.

Columbus MS to Natchez MS (268 miles) with a load of scrap paper pays $750.

Now ask me which I would take.

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Oh man that would be SWEET! I'd also like to be able to fly and seduce women with mind control.

Nope, I'm probably never going to net more than $1.50 to the truck, and in this market I'll take it.

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Guide to Instant O/O and Loadboards thread:
Financial settlements: 50, 68, (80), 82, 123, 166 (cumulative), 166 all repairs/maintenance, 181, 205
Pics: 3, 9, 10, 16, 24, 29, 32, 41, 61, 63, 78, 84, 94, 96, 119, 210, 326
Vids: 47, 48, 63, 74, 77, 80, 82, 96, 172, 211
JasontheRock cost investment summary: 87

That's all I'm pointing out. You're getting jacked at the moment. Brokers and companies know how to work it to their advantage. Keep your eyes and ears open, the money will follow.

That same $750 load, pays the driver $550. If he gets it through the local broker.

So much for the "I only get 7%-10% of each load" statements you see brokers make in this forum.

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M Enterprises did you fill the seat.

hard usually equals illegal in this industry,,but i'll bet it can be done right with a looseleaf

Well in our kind of trucking there is technically illegal and ILLEGAL. No you don't have to drive 15 hours a day, but I SO PROMISE YOU if you logged 3 hours getting loaded and another 3 getting unloaded you WILL be out of business inside a month. Greed doesn't even enter the equation. YOU WILL NOT MAKE IT.

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You can always tell a trucker, but you can't tell him MUCH!

Guide to Instant O/O and Loadboards thread:
Financial settlements: 50, 68, (80), 82, 123, 166 (cumulative), 166 all repairs/maintenance, 181, 205
Pics: 3, 9, 10, 16, 24, 29, 32, 41, 61, 63, 78, 84, 94, 96, 119, 210, 326
Vids: 47, 48, 63, 74, 77, 80, 82, 96, 172, 211
JasontheRock cost investment summary: 87

You can't say that loud enough, nor can you repeat it enough times to make believers out of some people.

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I don't have alot of experience but when I had a job if it took 2-4 hours to get loaded I would only log 30-45 minutes of on-duty time and the rest in sleeper.Sometimes it worked to "log" my 10 hours break time then log loading as the start of my day.

Do you have suggestions as to how to get more to the driver?

I don't know anyone (well...shouldn't say anyone) that believes the broker is getting 7%-10% "off the top". Yea, off the top of whatever fairy tale you want me to believe.

Not sure if I am being a forward thinker. More like in-the-now thinker. One in ten people who used to have a job within 8 months AND and looking for work actively AND have filed for unemployment AND qualify for unemployment AND are not labeled as "discouraged workers" (people that gave up until something good pops up) AND have not simply accepted part time work for dramatically lower pay AND have not simply taken a huge pay cut at a job they have held AND have not filed for any kind of SS Benefits AND have not fallen off the unemployment rolls.....are looking for an opportunity to get into a new field that is likely more stable during a recession than the job they had before.

The real unemployment rate, of course, is not bound by all the above contingencies, and it is reported around 20% by Moody's. Predicted to peak around 27% by some credible sources.

So we can all sit around in that imaginary ivory tower just waiting t=for the Obama windfalls to lay the streets with gold, or we can get to work.

Are you telling me that I can get my CDL tomorrow and hop in a Swift Truck, find 3,000 miles worth of $0.30/mile loads? That....would piss some people off on this forum.

Reality bites for most people right now. I hope you don't join us any time soon.

Not at all. I'm telling you that you can get a CDL, ride with a trainer for 7500 miles at CFI. And be making a hell of a lot more than .20 a mile.

Or you can get a CDL, spend 10 days in in-house training at Watkins and Shepard. Then start at .29 a mile. If you go the 30 day route, you start at .28 a mile if they pay for the school.

The reality is....not all companies make it a practice of keeping Vaseline in the hall closet.

As far as joining "reality" I quit one job in December, had another in February. Wasn't in a hurry then, and I won't get in one the next time. But hell will freeze over before I accept pre 1985 wages for driving a truck.

.17 a mile equals $340 for 2000 miles a week. Industry average at the moment.

Minimum wage is $7 an hour plus now. I take that $60 a week hit, and let the desperate drive for weeks on end. While I sit at home taking their wives out, so they can escape their reality for awhile.

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