Can New Owner Operators get loads?

CHR has been great for me in the last couple years....Rates have climbed up...Now TQL is beginning to go cheap on me...Loads that I was getting better than $2200 are offered to me for $1600.....Stainless steel loads....The loads are picking up from the same place and getting dropped at the same place...

TQL tells me that's the "best they can do"....Yeah right...when I was getting the loads for my rate...Fuel was in the low $4/g range....When it got to almost $5/g they dropped the rates?

I'll tell you what happened....TQL bumped their rates up and took out a higher margin....

TQL is not the only one....Some LandStar BOC's do the same....

I get emails for loads from the LA area to DFW for $1/m for full loads....

 

I swear every time I see this question I think it is a troll! Its just so unfathomable for someone to know nothing about the industry to want to go buy a truck and become an owner operator.

You DON'T KNOW WHERE TO GET YOUR LOADS FROM???????!!!!!!!!!

You may want to look into that because that is how you make money out there!!!

Wait till the brokers see you comin! Bring lube!

I have a better idea to get rich quick, go by a private jet and fly movie stars around! What you are asking is the same thing!

 

Unless its all basic basic basic forget it,lol.

 

At least you are smart enough to recognize that.

I have owned my own business before and my deployments in the National Guard took it's toll the second time around.

Now I am going to do something I love and enjoy doing. The driving is my "me time".

The business side of it is the side that's the job.

 

Quicken home and business. I'm all about easy.

 

That's what I use too.

 

What do you mean you're going to do something,are you going to be an O/O?

 

yes, I am going to go independent and not even lease on to someone....

Exactly what the OP was asking. Is it possible? yes, it is.

You just have to keep your wits about you and you can do it.

 

You never see the what the broker gets per load unless it's a military load....

Don't worry about what the broker makes per load....it's what you get paid per load that matters....


I have hauled some Mil loads that paid me better than $3/m for a 1000 hub miles.....$3K TTT.....I saw on the government's B/L that the broker's cut was $6K.....So the brokers took 50% off the top....
Unfair?.....Gouging?....Perhaps.....

But as long as you get the rate you need, don't complain....

Now the loads I mentioned before were an example of true greed....that is....The broker knew they were offering far below what it would cost to run.....Even a NAFTA rig needs to make at least $1.50/m to keep running....Fuel isn't being given away.......Old tires blow....Duct tape and tie-wire cost money too....