Instant O/O and Load boards

I have seen others that pay that well also. In fact I got a 254 mile load for $1.87 and was able to deliver it the same day and I had to tarp it! Fastest tarp job I ever did.

Last week I booked then had to turn down a local tarp job going 65 miles that was paying $300 (the overseas container with the lumber did not arrive the day it was supposed to) Would have loaded at 8 and been delivered by 11!

The work is out there and you have to work to find it. I book almost all I what I do the day before it loads.

There are plenty of the 1.15 crap.
The lowest paying one I've had so far has been $1.30.

My only negative is that I have to dead-head to these (avg. 200 mi), Unfortunately I live in the middle of the I-5 shipping lane.

I do not mind DH if It will get me an extra $150-$200 (after paying the DH fuel). I try and stay around the 700-800 range for loads. You can do the same amount of work for 700-800 (deliver next day) as you can for the 400-600 loads. Above 900 you move into the second day delivery. I try and average 3.5 loads a week.

I get most of my loads (so far) from internet truckstop. It came recomended from this website as did the transcore website.

 

I see a lot of them doing container work, I think it cause the intermodal companies take advantage of the immigrant workers that dont know any better and pay them shotty wages. The container trucks always look like they are falling apart and are held together with duck tape! I was at the CHP facility in fremont gettin a voluntary truck inspection and I asked the officer who gets the most citations and has the worst trucks, you will never guess what he told me...

 

You found that out this week. The problem is it takes the same effort and time to haul a $300 dollar load as it does $ 1000 load. You still have all that time loading and un-loading.

 

Is there any way of knowing you are not going to get 25 tons? Did your broker not know the product was light.? That 5 tons light is a deal breaker. What a BUMMER.

 

Where do you deliver Monday?

 

I think the broker is just trying to keep you moving. I am not convinced he is taking advantage of you yet. I do think he should know enough about the product you are dispatched to get so you have real numbers to project you potential earnings.
Va sucks. I will be going through Ohio for sure this week. Get to Ohio I will buy your chicken dinner. You lost a lot of chicken dinners last week.