Truck Load Rates Halt 8 Week Slide 2.0

I wasn’t taking any swings at you, it was nothing more than a statement saying I would’ve never done that load at that rate. Relief load or not.

You can post screen shots of what a load board says the average is to justify your decisions if you like. Doesn’t mean that that is what I or anyone else would run that lane for. I’m not the least bit interested in being average.

 

Bitter because you didn't get that state job?

 

This is not how it works. If you are taking money for your services, you have to be licensed, regulated and follow health codes for your type of operations. Then you have to think about your home "zoning", if they even allow at home businesses.

 

Another $1500 week for me. First, gotta say there's a lot of opinion here on how/when certain people want or need to run. I'm not going to put in my specifics except to say that I got my $2 per mile and I can make a great living WHERE I LIVE on that kind of money in normal times (*in NORMAL times). I ran a total of about 750 miles for that $1500 and it was honestly my best average in weeks. 4 short runs for small brokerages and friends and would be a lot better average cpm if not for deadhead, like double.

It's getting bleak in my neighborhood (see avatar on left) I'm not moving more than a couple hundred miles from the house for fear of getting stuck.

I am with Talljoe on a couple of things. First, I get bored. I sat for weeks and now have settled into a pattern of finding a handful of short runs that pay ok just to get out of the house and drive the truck. Wife and kids home, losing motivation on home improvement. It all cost money I'm not making and I like my solitude in the truck.

Second, I HAVE a truck and trailer. Running for lousy rates is still better than any job near me, and I'm equipped for it. Don't confuse this with appeasing lousy 3pl's with .80 cpm rates.

Third, as bad as it is if I put together a halfway decent run and needed to pay for fuel to make the last let home I would run whatever I could right now rather than deadheading home. It saves money and that is a basic principle of business.

There are a lot of you who have been at this a LONG time. You might have the pride, expertise and patience to completely sit this out. That might take months. Good for you, I'd like to be one of you someday.

There are a lot of you who are brand new and have bills and are in panic mode. Good luck, I hope you make it. I do think poor choices led you here and you have no choice but to enable broker price gouging.

Myself, as a 2 year O/O, and I think I'm in about the same boat as Joe and a few other regulars here. I can weather the storm for several more months but every day of doing nothing is worse for the bank account than doing something. To put him in the same league as the Amazon runners and cheap ***es out here who's long term business model is running for peanuts is doing him a disservice.

Off the podium......

 

Surprised that such resolution was possible Iin Texes . . of all other places.
It seems they are testing people with this virus in aspects far beyond health.

 

No, bitter because I pay the highest taxes in the nation to pay for those state jobs and all of the corruption that comes with them.

 

Let's see...
Bruce Lee.
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