Rates are crashing and fuel to the moon!

How come a bunch of you aren't letting us bottom feeders perish, whilst you're on that exotic cruise, then coming back to hit when it's hot?

It is the way of the short hauler(s).

 

3.27 is a heck of a lot closer then many of the posters on here saying under 1.50 to fully operate their truck. It’s pretty funny all of the people crying about low rates but then turn right around and argue about how cheap they can run. If you can run that cheap then what’s wrong with the rates?

1+1=0 here lately.

 

They say they can drive for that much sure, basically means they drive for free. Now add in driver pay, or if O/O you’d wanna be paid more than a driver and boom your easily at $3+…

 

I’m gonna be “that” guy. You have nothing left over at $1.30 and 10 cents a mile to pay yourself with at $1.40. Any competitive driver pay and a decent business margin is going to push that $1.00 per mile higher. So unless you operate as a charity…

Costs per mile are a way to show how thrifty you are. Revenue per mile shows how savvy you are.

 

Hit the nail on the head. Folks think getting costs per mile down is the name of the game. It’s not. Getting the biggest number you can on your invoice is. But they don’t want to talk about that.

 

So if you're revenue for the year is $250K, and you're expenses are $240K, it shows how savvy you are.