Reefer Mileage Price Rate

What is a reefer hotshot? I thought most reefer loads were run hard until you get there. They were when I ran a reefer.

 

Average Price Per Mile Hotshot Rate Within The City Limits?

Chemicals are flat rate for anything 300 miles r/t or under plus FSC. I did a broker load the other day ....picked up at U.C.C. Tx City ....... paid $336 gross plus $110 FSC to the yard ...... load goes on to Westlake,La. which pays another $534. plus FSC of $174.

I refused the interline leg because I don't get the FSC in cash. I get discounted fuel and would have used nowhere near that much fuel resulting in A.C.P.
( Additional carrier profit ) ( If I don't get it, neither do you policy )( violation of )

What's your cpm? Hard to price anything unless you know that.

That help?

 

IMHO, it would be impossible to name an average rate. What freight lanes? What product? What time of year? Are you talking about produce? Meat? Poultry? Frozen loads?

I have never heard of reefer hotshot. The only products that I have hauled that payed by the pound were potatoes years ago. They paid by the CWT based on delivery point. The only other products I know of that pay by the pound are dump truck and hopper loads.

All loads I have ever hauled that were local or short miles paid a flat rate not by the mile. When you haul this type of freight you need to have a daily minimum you charge based on cost of operation. You use that figure to decide whether to accept these loads.

All other loads will usually pay a freight amount and a FSC. You need to add these together and divide by actual miles, not what the company or broker gives you, and get a rate in CPM or cents per mile. You should know your cost of operation in CPM and then you decide if the load is profitable or not.

We have no idea if you are fishing for what you can make buying a truck and leasing it on or buying a truck and trailer, getting your authority and hauling broker loads. You may even be trying to figure what to charge on direct loads. Most owner operators have no direct customers so they don't charge any rates, they look at available loads and decide whether to load them or not. Regardless, there is a large difference in rates here too.

If you are thinking of getting into trucking with no experience you should really reconsider. If you insist the only logical method is to learn more about the industry, look at the equipment you would use, calculate your cost of operation and then look at the available freight to see if it is feasible. If you are looking here thinking there is money to be made, just know that four times as many fail as succeed. It takes a good amount of capital to purchase equipment pay startup costs and have operating capital.

I haven't run reefer freight in years but I would be looking to average more than $2.00 per mile or find something else to do. You can Google freight rates and get rates published by different organizations. The government publishes a rate table for produce by region showing truck demand too. You can also find loads on free versions of load boards and call brokers for rates.

This is a great forum and has lots of information available if you use the site search function. Rates will be the hardest information to get and the last information you need. I would guess you have owner operators hauling reefer freight from 1.40 CPM to 3.50 CPM.

 

Yeeup! I was wondering why I saw those 2 ole boys runnin a 110 out on the 40wb ......
I said to myselfwhen I grow up I wanna be just like them! Runnin Full stak 379's just a haulin #####
I was unaware that was a job requirement

 

Soulseeker, are you talking about hauling produce in a refrigerated straight truck? As in not a tractor trailer?

 

I've hauled produce loads that paid $2 mile up to meat loads that paid up to $3.30 mile. But that's long haul.

If you run around Houston in a straight truck, I think it's more of a piece rate or flat rate. How can you charge by the mile if one customer is 10 miles and another 5 miles? You'd either overcharge or go broke.