What are considered Short Runs??

Anything that you can be out and back before your 14 is up, or 250mi one way is what I call short

 

Really more of a personal definition, someone doing 50 miles a day in and out might consider 100 miles a long haul…

i look at hours, not miles personally on the local stuff

 

my dump and flat work straight hourly, $125-$140 depending on the customer and what’s going on (that probably should be adjusted but I’ve been slow with those two this year not doing my own stuff)

with the reefer I usually do a by the mile/day/how many hours I’ll be sitting somewhere to load unload and roll it all into a rate. No one gives a #### how many HOURS you loose, they just care that they want to pay you $x a mile, but rolling into a problem place, I’m absolutely adding in loading/unloading time on top of a milage rate,

 

Everything I do is by the round trip miles and 100 would be long. Most of mine are around 30 round trip. But I'm not hauling general freight

 

150 miles may only take 4 hours of driving. But it’s an 8-10 hour day by the time it’s all said and done, so that’s easily $1000 minimum IMO Actually, it’s $1000 minimum just to turn the key, no matter how short of a run it is

 

Depending on the customer. I'm usually around 10hrs doing 300-340 miles for the day, delivering and re loading. Sometimes more sometimes less. Got held up yesterday only doing 220 miles that was 11.5hr day. And the day before that was 380 miles in 10hrs, out of both docks in less than a hour