I agree... $2.50 a mile, I wouldn't even get out of bed.
5$ a mile and up is what gets me out of the house.
Coil tarps?
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I'd take 2.50/Mile for big mile trips. Cross country in four days for $7000 isn't a bad rate when you can get it going EW and WE.
Now for short miles from TN, NC, or thereabouts headed up to the new England area I'd be looking for $5000 up then scrounge up $2000 to $2500 on the way back down.
The short hop is better business but I can still make a killing crossing the country, especially when that 7k each way hits 8k occasionally. I'll admit I have a bit of an addiction to big mile loads, I just like routine of it. I leave exactly on the 10 hour off mark even if I have extra time, no matter if I'm going east or west.
Either way us OO are making doctor money on an idiots education right now. Stack it up while you can and pay off the equipment. When the other shoe drops learn to stay at home with the wife and kids again or you'll drive yourself crazy missing the road.shooter19802003, earnies2 and cke Thank this. -
I'm in this business for 1 reason and 1 reason only... To make a profit.
I don't do "favors" for dispatchers, nor do I take a cheaper paying load to get closer to something that pays more.
I only run certain lanes.
No Canada, no California anymore.
Basically the Mississippi to the Atlantic.
Better description would be...
NY to GA / FL state line to Houston to Chicago to NY,
I stay in that "box".
Anything outside that area I don't bother with.
That's how everything pays 5$ and up. -
Here is one I came across today. Certainly not as bad as lots I've seen but with the sides not covering the coil completely to protect it from the elements is a potential claim... Rain and snow will easily find its way onto this coil... to each his own, I'll stick with my method using my 4 foot lumber tarp.
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