Best company to lease my truck to

30 years and your working for what 1.02-1.07 a mile

 

I get this crap all the time.

I've got one team truck in our TLX making $1.31 per mile plus FSC which last week was $0.29.
$1.60 per mile
6138 miles (average for last year was 59XX - haven't looked at this year)
deductions $103/wk. Free plate and quallcomm.

my three trucks in LTL are getting closer to $1.55 after fuel - but they are all on dedicated and we all love it because we get miles and we NEVER ONCE sit at a customer or deal with lumpers. We pull into our terminal, drop, hook, and run back to the terminal we cam from. I dont even have to open doors! and my trailers rarely ever show more than 20k!

I'll never understand why ya'll are so caught up n too good to run for anything less than a 2.00/mile. Doesn't consistency and reliability mean anything to ya'll? I've rand for $2.00 a mile and averaged 1600 miles a week. Yeah I could puff my chest out and call myself a cowboy but my cashflow sucked ballz, bout bankrupted myself.

I've grown from just myself and my truck to having four trucks - with all but the brand new '19 completely paid off. All while running for faf - i even took a year off and ran containers back home in chicago.

Believe me - they aint perfect, alot of things i'd do differently, but they've made me a ton of cash. tired of hearing how nobody can make it. Theres a couple groups of FAF IC's on Facebook where we all are happy as hell. I'm talking husband and wife teams, not sandal wearing freaks. Most IC's i know here buy a new truck every three #### years!

some do better than me - but 98% dont.

sorry for the rant.

 

No penalty, just a kicker on top of base rate

 

Running yourself into the ground for $1.60 a mile with all the miles you can handle sounds like hard work to me. $2 a mile on 1,600 miles is lousy you're exactly right. Even on 3,200 miles it''s hard work and low. It's not all about rate per mile but mostly what sort of revenue are you generating in a day. But all in averages and rates are good numbers to keep close tabs on and know. It's ok not everyone out here is cut out to find work with quality rates. That's why there are plenty of companies offering all the miles you can handle for $1.60 a mile.

Honestly though on real miles does it even come close to that? I'd be surprised if by the time your drivers bobtail around Willy nilly or deadhead back and forth from home to work that in reality you are truthfully much closer to $1.30 all miles. You,may be the first but I've never yet met a driver paid on a flat mileage rate like that who actually kept up with every single odometer mile they ran and knew exactly what their truck was making per mile. They're only worried about getting as many 1,000 mile runs from dispatch as they can handle. And those dispatched miles are usually shorted by 5-10% if not more. But never mind that....

 

They pay me actual miles unless i choose to go home on my own schedule.

 

Im a new owner operator Texas... Whom is the best company to lease my truck on ... Dry Van

 

What area houston, Pasadena etc etc?

 

You could try companies like Frey Miller or JB Hunt O/O side is really good.

 

I'm looking to get started with my own truck O/O but want to lease onto a company first. What are some of the best companies as far as pay, freight availability, etc. I was thinking schnieder, landstar, jb hunt, forward air, maybe some LTL. I also don't mind driver unload for higher pay. Looking at 2016 freightliner around $50k paid about half down

 

Try lone mountain leasing so you will have a good repair fund they have some decent looking trucks and the whole economic instability can make the industry worse