54k coil.....

Lol, yea they’s some pretty ridiculous stuff out there. Sad thing is, someone will end up moving it to buy fuel / food / or make a truck payment….

 

"Its only going 55 miles, that's almost 10 dollars a mile !!" - every broker ever

 

Yeah and who ever it is will probably use 5 or 6 chains and a flappin' torn up tarp and take a wrong turn b4 delivery and get hung up on a R.R. crossing, OR the Skateboard will SNAP at Load point.

 

I’d rather pull this than a $2/mi load many of y’all are pulling. At least with this, you’re not going to be stuck in BFE; not wearing out the equipment; $9/mi is 4.5X the aforementioned rate; you’ll net more per mile; you can potentially grab more out of there, working toward a regular deal. Think about it this way: 600mi (all day) X $2.00 = $1200 versus 55mi X $9.09 = $500. If one did two, that’s 220mi for $1000. That’d be $4.55/mi. There’s way less expense, wear and tear, and unknowns on the coil. No. It’s not a huge gross dollar amount, but, you’ve not got a lot in it, provided there are no hang-ups. And, you’re going home at night. If one could work a deal and get that rate on everything with the shipper, twice a day, that’d be $5000/wk on 1100mi and $20000/mo on 4400mi. I don’t see the issue.

 

Any way you slice it, that's a day's work for $500 gross.......no thanks

 

Back in my skateboard days I remember "Doing a Favor" for a steel mill that we were in house carrier for. Ran under cover of darkness, under 25 miles round-trip took little over 2 hours and it paid 20 times that amount 15 years ago.

 

Theoretically, it sounds excellent.
There's just the F. C. F. S. and the NINE HOUR GAP for "sleeping".
(FCFS 7am – 2pm.........11pm – 7am)
What IF one arrived in the first shift hours BUT was told it would be offloaded on THIRD SHIFT??
Maybe could set up with two trucks and run two shifts delivered??
"broker" would prolly cut the rate before payment.
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I'm basing the post on MY EXPERIENCES OTR as a Driver for a Small Company (4 Tractor-Trailers).

TO THINE SELF BE TRUE!!

 

$500 X 20 = $10K. C’mon!

 

If they don't flatten their truck in the process