You still trying to turn the subject cheap freight is cheap freight if you load it on motorcycle. I don't know what your CPM to operate is but most class 8 claim about 1.60 a mile or somewhere there about. Now if you book a load paying 1.50 a mile you are going backwards no matter how many of these turd loads you put on your trailer. In the end if you have three than all you have is a load of turds. Not to mention time invested and liability involved. So you are still working for free and just don't realize it. Right now my CPM is about .80 a mile or less before I pay myself. So if I get 2.50 a mile going out I can delver and bounce home and still make over 20 dollars an hour basically and not have to fool with the cheap .75-1.50 a mile stuff. You should be glad I only haul good paying freight or you might miss making your truck payment. But in all seriousness when you look at this stuff you should look at the real miles being run and not haul the less than 2.00 a mile stuff the market would then get better for all of us. Being a O/O or small fleet we can't compete with the mega carriers and their business model. Our only weapon is to not accommodate the cheap rates by letting the freight sit and pass it by. But this is probably falling on deaf ears.
The REAL Reason Freight Rates SUCK
Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by mcgoo422000, Feb 13, 2013.
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"Big rate" Too!!!!!!
Comes out to a "Big" $1.19/m......How about it....Any Takers?
Btw.....It will be a nice Deadhead back up to Atlanta.....Enjoy....
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I got to say it if noone hauled frieght for less than $2.50 then $2.50 would be cheap freight! Therefore, good paying frieght would be in the four buck range.
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Oh yeah....I can remember back in '09 when rates were real low....Like If you could get $1200 for a LA to Portland OR load you were doing good.....Getting the Riot Act for taking a load from FT. Carson to Herlong for $1.70/m......From a few over at Bronc's thread......
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