Load price

$20 a ton on a 24 ton triaxle grosses $480 before anything. Thats $7.38 a mile on 65 miles. This sand, will it be hauled in a gold plated bed?

I think that rate is too high to even get work/future orders, but owner operators dont make money by hauling cheap either.

 

I guess I can probably fill your trailer in 20 minutes if that with a cat 936 front end loader 7 yard bucket. Not even. You probably wait in line with others so call it a hour to load. A hour a 20 minutes to run it 65 miles. Not long to dump.

Back empty 65 miles to shipper for another load. Another two hours and 30 minutes cycle.

If you took 15 ton of sand I would like to see the driver make 50 dollars on one run. YOU charge maybe 12.00 ton. Your truck probably needs about 1.50 to break even. If you charged flat fee of 150 dollars for anything inside 100 miles I think you will be adequately covered.

So.

Fee 15 ton sand. Times 12.00 per ton = $180
Fee 125.00 for less than 100 mile haul. = $305 Total.

Your driver gets 50.00, your 130 mile fuel burn is about $74 dollars at 3.00 gallon. That there is your 125 dollar for less than 100 mile haul. Your driver thinks he will make 25.00 a hour or 15.00 a hour full cycle. Whatever suits him. You are paying him by the load.

You can probably do 5 cycles in 11 hours of driving today. Your 14 hours consume the rest. That's 1500.00

I don't know what the market will bear with a load of sand delivered. But I handled rock and sand off a large enough company here in Arkansas called Razorback that bought land at times to dig out sand from it in their own people, equipment to load their own trucks and deliver to a number of ready mix plants like mine. No way are they going to endure 1500 dollars a day expense on sand deliveries. I don't think the ready mix plant ships more than roughly 150 yards of concrete at 60 dollars per yard daily. That's a 9000 dollar a day operation that has to pay everything.

 

It might, but triaxles are a dime a dozen in jersey. Literally. They are all trying to undercut each other.

 

How funny that would be if it was dirty dirt going to the landfill. Its time for you to call people and ask them the questions.

 

Why is this in (Report a bad company)?

 

. I suggest looking at fedex. You got Newark airport right there and fedex has tons of freight coming and going. You dont need a big semi either, i see plenty of 6 wheelers leased to fedex. Usually its custom critical.

Talk to the fedex guys on here, they seem to do well and you are in a good spot.

 

Lets be clear. Im only suggesting, i know nothing about you or your business plans. Im simply throwing out a suggestion like i would a random stranger if they asked me which lollipop they should try.