I'm hauling turkey and smell a fish

Get your own authority. Only $300.00 at fmcsa.gov. Get your own insurance, pay your heavy road taxes and all the other little things I forgot to mention. Then get a subscription to a good load board. (I use Ooida's ) and you can get better paying loads. Last quarter I averaged $1.76 a mile empty and loaded pulling a 48' flat. I did not have long deadhead miles, and I stayed within 500 miles from home and was home every weekend. I do have my daughter doing my dispatching and she is not afraid to tell the broker "that isn't even average, you have to come up on the price for us to move it." Most brokers will come up. SAY NO TO CHEAP FREIGHT !!!
THINK If you lease to a company that has brokerage license and they get 27 to 30 percent of the load after paying for your plates and insurance how much do they get for brokering the load when you are paying for the plates and insurance.

 

You can neg. a better rate with a broker, yet you don't know what percentage that broker keeps. I'm leased and know exactly how much they keep. The question of leased vs your authority has been discussed before, it all depends on the individuals situation which pays more.

 

Jezzzzus i haul chicken out of the same area for 1.57 mile and think thats border line cheap freight but 1.27 a mile !!!!! just say no, infact laugh at them and say HELL NO ,,, thats what i do! Or i will say to them ,,, 1.27 a mile? your joking right ?

 

I don't think a $1.76 a running mile is very good (Say No To Cheap Freight) with your own authority and trailer. But freight still sucks. I did a little less then that and I am leased to a carrier that furnishes a flatbed trailer, fuel card (which I got back over $3,000 in discounts last year), cargo and liability ins, pays weekly, loaded every day and I am not constantly on the phone or computer looking for freight they are and run a 500 mile radius and home on the weekend. I am just saying if I would go out on my own as an independent I would hope to average a lot better then that if I have to work that much more and pay for all insurance, trailer etc......

 

Im sure the avg frieght right now runs in the 1.60 to 1.80 /mi area paid to the truck, I think a bunch of people here bs about rates,,, sure i get 2.40-2.50 and 2.60 a mile every now and then but that exceptional,,, not the avg.