Rates are crashing and fuel to the moon!

Once again, I wished when I opened up to you guys, you'd not post it on the internet.

 

Why get hung up on the percentage when the amount to your truck is really all that matters at the end of the day? I’ve never understood that.

 

All depends on what the percentage is of .... If they gross $400 000 on 80 000 miles, sign me up on 40%.
What they make on the top does not concern an owner operator, just like it does not concern him how much the product, he is hauling, is sold for.

Don't mistake this as transparency which is a different matter. A slightly different matter.

 

He posted what he made to his truck. You said you’d never go there simply because of the percentage. So I asked why the fixation on the percentage when at the end of the day all that matters is what your truck makes. And you never answered the question.

You know one part of the equation based on public knowledge and made a blanket statement without knowing the rest. I could tell you I’m paying $185 a week to rent a dry van and you’d say I’m going broke based on what you know that’s public knowledge, but again you don’t know the entire story. Or I could give you the number of a friend and tell you that he takes 30% and you’d never even call him just based on the number when in reality you could make more to your truck at the end of the day than running your own numbers pulling your own trailer. It’s tough to make informed decisions or statements without knowing the entire picture.

 

No, we’re company drivers and thinking to lease a truck with TEL so we can take it to Landstar

 

Sorry im new to the thread

 

No don't do it. You want to buy a truck after freight has bottomed. Just save your money. In my opinion.

Truck prices have just started to drop.