Pilot Car Rates?

The only times that I have had to pay a pilot to come to me was in Nevada and I had to get pilots outta Cali to go up into Oregon just a 270 mile trip so they charged me 65 cents a mile deadhead to get to me. Right now I've got trucks working on a project from Houston to northern PA and I pay the pilots 1.35 a mile and then they deadhead back to Houston to meet my guys for another round they say it's the best money they've ever made. As far as pilots around home base goes I usually just use my own guys in WY, MT, SD, and ND since those states don't require any certifications. Two years ago I was working on a project from Wyoming to PA and tried to use my own people on a couple loads. I figured out that it was costing me 1000 dollars per load more to use my own people than it cost to just hire the work out so since then I just hire pilots.

 

Sounds like I need to sharpen my spanish and put a dump bed on the ole dog, be about the same pay and I already own the dog....

 

Did your insurance cancel or go next renewal?

 

My insurance paid for the 72000 damage to the cargo less my 5000 deductible it was the first incident I had in ten years so they didn't say much although they did go after my pole car and their insurance wasn't worth ####.

 

Hey Ron -

What were the dimensions on the load?

Ron in Denver

 

Hell that was a baby! Where you not routed down the interstate in CO I've never ran a pilot for 13 wide in CO except off the interstate.