Completed a $19,000 dryvan load. Highest paying dryvan load?

Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by Pacific Islander, May 10, 2019.

  1. Pacific Islander

    Pacific Islander Light Load Member

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    They posted a load, and I booked it. I did nothing wrong. Nothing unethical about booking a great paying load and delivering on time!

    But, if you want to discuss unethical, let's ask all the brokers to give back their 20-40% of a load for doing all of 10 minutes paperwork.

    I want the other $3000 the broker made when I ran a $7500 load of wine last summer. He did all of 10 minutes work for that $3000. Took me 5 days to deliver that load. Where's the ethics in that?
     
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  3. stayinback

    stayinback Road Train Member

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    First off- Why Would you Knowingly Accept a Rate Con with 20-40% Margins?? Thats Pretty Stupid on your behalf.

    Secondly- Do what you want, But you gotta live with that...Me Personally, Thats a $2000 Move give or take a few hundred.. You Know That,I Know hat,And the Whole Transportation Community Knows that.

    And Thirdly- Brokers Have had a Poor Reputation from the start- And When Guys Take Whatever Rate they Pour on you- They Get used to it. So Dont Blame The Borkers.
     
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  4. Intothesunset

    Intothesunset Road Train Member

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    OK so this makes no sense at all to me 45K pounds of coke products worth 100k, going 884 miles for $19000 dollors?
    Someone at uber will be asking for a refund come Monday or you will be on their do not use list.
    Did this load have armored cars following you??
    How much was the lumper bill?
     
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  5. stayinback

    stayinback Road Train Member

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    Not only that- Uber MAY follow up on business collections towards the OP's , Hit his D&B Credit rating......
    and Worst yet- His name wll be tarnished within the Transportation Community....Nobody Ethical Will Ever Give Him a load.

    he Needs to think about this a little Longer- Not Wortrh a 17k mistake.
     
  6. ichudov

    ichudov Heavy Load Member

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    D&B credit rating is junk as far as I am concerned. They keep spamming me with completely FAKE letter about how "My D&B Rating may be impacted by something". Whereas my business does ZERO borrowing and pays all bills immediately. It is a commercial scam for businesspersons suffering from anxiety. I ignore those sick people completely.
     
  7. Pacific Islander

    Pacific Islander Light Load Member

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    First, that load was $7500, and was just over 2000 miles. So that's why I took it. And still had 2 more days to pack in more money for a full week. Nothing stupid about that, I'm sure most would agree. And dryvan at that!

    Secondly, I sure am going to live just fine with it, even my sleep has improved the last few nights. With your reasoning, I guess a 160 mile load I did last year for $2200 was also unethical right around $15 per mile? Or the 7 mile load I did for $850 was super unethical at over $100 per mile.

    Thirdly, what's with the uber negative aura your bringing to this thread? Get it? Lol
     
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  8. Gdog66223

    Gdog66223 Road Train Member

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    Been that way since the 90's... nothing new now.. Just gonna get worse... Maybe you should become a broker and then you can do what they do, which is skim 40% off the top and not have to do any real work...
     
  9. spyder7723

    spyder7723 Road Train Member

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    While i didn't get one several years back we had 2 legal loads going from kings bay ga naval station to prudhoe bay, ak paying 33k. That's the best paying legal load I've seen.

    Best run in recent memory of loads I've personally done was last spring i did 3 separate 10'6" loads from Jacksonville to 4 corners power station near shiprock nm. If i remember right they paid 9200 after my carriers cut and permits were taken out. Add in permits and the carriers 25% and that's about 12k each.
     
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  10. stayinback

    stayinback Road Train Member

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    There ya go, that Sounds good to me
     
  11. spyder7723

    spyder7723 Road Train Member

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    You may be getting fishing scam letters claiming to represent d&b but d&b themselves are a completely legit organization. Many of the best paying companies won't do business with you unless you have a d&b number in good standing.
     
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