So you want to "own " your own company

Dead heading 200 miles will only get me about $1.25 per mile. There are some loads in my area that pay $1.50 but they want you to go cross country and I won't do that. If I can get to the Ohio area about 600 miles away I can always get at least $2.00 and more on a long run. If I can get $1.35 to Ohio I'll take that.

I have on friend in my area that takes freight out to Ohio for $1.35 and gets $3.00 coming back for an average of $2.20 per mile. He does this non stop and makes out pretty good. I can't deal with the same run over and over and especially the East Coast.

 

Guess I'm confused. So your saying you would deadhead to a bad freight area?

 

Sorry, I meant to say that I would deadhead out of a bad freight area to a good freight area.

 

I'm not saying its not true but I can say I have never hauled that cardboard out of the NE up by where you live even though I go up in that area almost every week.(I drive for TMC) I will say that freight out of there is a joke 90% of the time though.

 

Since you work for TMC maybe you know the answer. I see TMC trucks dead heading from either Vermont, NH or Maine down to Mass non stop. They pick up trash in Mass going to Amsterdam, OH. Does TMC have some huge contract to deliver up North?

 

We do run a lot of plywood and those types of materials from the SE up into the NE. I have been up into boston area a few times but not any further north on 95. I have gone up to about canada in NY a few times though. I have hauled cheap freight out of there though I wont lie about that. I want to say only 1 load that was really bad. I get % pay so I see the gross of the load and everything and I will say that 1 load was a joke but I do know that place I picked up at is a huge TMC contract so it was understandable and I know that they make up for it in the other areas that we haul for that place so its probably more of a we will scratch your back if you scratch ours type deal up there.

 

Oh, OK. I can sit on the side of the road on Rt 3 and watch the empty TMC trucks heading south at least one every hour or so.

Then when I'm on the Mass Pike heading home I see the TMC trucks loaded up with bailed cardboard heading West so I just assumed they had a big contract up north and just getting their trucks back to the Ohio area.

There is bagged mulch and water coming from up north but I'm guessing TMC doesn't even bother with it. It pays REALLY cheap.

 

I have hauled a load of mulch before and it actually paid better then most the loads out of that area.

 

I had to go back to my old job to help out for a year. I still kept my authority and would haul 1 load of mulch every Saturday back to my home town just to give my truck a workout so it didn't sit. The mulch came from Old Castle. Probably the same place you picked up. It goes by a few different names.

 

Yeah that is the same place