Finally got my own truck

This is the hard thing about owning a truck. Once you are responsible for everything, sometimes you have to sacrifice things that you may have been able to do as a company driver or a 9-5'er. I'm not judging your call here, but rollincoal is right. The end of the month is always the best, however the end of March marks the end of the first quarter for a lot of shippers, being even better than your typical end of the month rates.

Staying out 8 weeks at a time doesn't always net better results. You can make great money, and be home every weekend. You need to find your niche.

 

Friday loads have been jacked like that for a long time. It's backwards of how it should be, or used to be a few years ago, and I have no explanation for it but Fridays have been lousy a long time now on my lanes.

However, end of the month and end of the quarter has always remained solid even in bad times. Consider the end of quarter and/or end of the month as 12 days to always get above averge rates. Well above average. I get being burnt out and needin to go home but for sure you need to schedule yourself to be working on those days in the future. You really can't afford to be missing out on 12 of the best days of the year. Those 12 days could possibly equal out 24 or more days of your ordinary, typical daily cash flow.

And yep I did get screwed over by that broker. Can't get him on the phone Been one big bust of a week. But it's still dead out here and that's the chance I took trying to make something hsppen.

 

Holy crap you are getting ripped on the insurance. I pay $800 a month. The other guy pays $1500 a month but he has a 2016 Volvo 780. That is for everything

 

Thats $800/ week for truck payment and ins,so $3200 a month. Payment for his truck is at least $2500 a month

 

Not to be rude, but that truck payment is killing you. Your a slave to the truck. Most guys I know, start out with smaller payments on a good used truck, then upgraded once established. I don't envy what you are doing. But since you chose this direction, you now have to work within those parameters. I wish you luck, it's a hard road. Sacrifices will have to be made.

 

That sounds about right for being home every Friday night with current prices. You are not going to gross 6k on 3k miles anytime soon (maybe you can once in a while, but not every week). Looks like you put yourself in a bad situation. I say the only thing you can do is get your own authority and get a used trailer, that will bring you up closer to your income goal