I need opinion, advice, expertise please

if he is just a driver its good pay .
If he is a O/O its crappy pay and he is a idiot if he takes it .
If he is a driver and pays for the fuel he is even dumber .

 

IMO no he is waisting his time. If he does not have a load out he will spend most of the 800 in fuel to get back North to find a load. 1200 miles plus tolls then 400 mile deadhead or more to get to the next load.

 

If your friend is an owner op or a lease op why would he be asking a non driver?
The trip is around 1220 miles the most direct route will involve tolls but nothing too spendy.

This is is a generic mockup. Without knowing weight, tractor, driver you are looking at around 203 gallons of fuel. Take an average price of $3.89 and that gives you $791 in fuel.

Unless your friend is company, which is doubtful since he would be making .65cpm on this trip and you are asking about fuel this is a horrible horrible load. If it's a reefer load there's even more expense to cover, and coming out of South Florida freight rates are not great.

If this guy is an owner op he may need to rethink his business plan.

 

Sounds like a U-Ship load,, Hauling loads like this will put a truck owner out of business,

 

okay so its 1,216 miles from St. Louis MO. to Miami FL.
I'm going to assume a 7 mpg fuel efficiency for the truck.


1216 / 7 = 173 gallons of fuel needed to make a one way trip.


If your friend gases up in Missouri which has a $3.61 gallon average today it'll cost him 173 x 3.61 = $624.53 of his $800 dollars just to get down there.
He will have $175.47 profit to the truck. That doesn't take into account if he eats anything on the road or any other expenses.

Not worth his time.

 

Now Jasel, be honest, is this "friend" really you? Whenever I had something wrong, but wanted to remain anonymous, I'd always say, "Mom, this 'friend' of mine has this funny rash, is that bad?"