Advice about becoming flatbed o/o and breakdown

I doubt that you as a person can rent from Penske or Ryder>It's not the business model they have. I also doubt that if you could rent from them that you would be successful. There's just not enough money in the industry to support a carrier, a truck rental company and yourself.

 

5500-6500 gross to truck. u get 75% of that . u get 100% of fuel surcharge which is usually included in that 1st number they quote u in their ad. 175 weekly trailer rental pretty self explanatary and iwouldnt try to rent, too expensive. hope this helps no hose dont seem realistic to me but thats just my experiences in fb. do the math if you can avg 2.20 per mile and run 2500 per week that would be 5500. its been my exp its hard to do both. the shorter mile stuff pays better but you dont run as far. the longer stuff run more but pays less.

 

that would be a good gig if the gross is really 5500-6500, unless you have to buy a bunch of overweight/oversize permits or running back and forth on an expensive toll road or something like that that would require a lot of additional expense. I think it's a good idea to rent a truck and feel it out, it's gonna cut into your potential profit quite a bit, but it cuts down your risk and buys you some time to do the math and get set up for your own truck.

oh, and the first question would be how many miles on average to get that 5500-6500 ?

 

I run FB 5 days a week. And 5500-6500 would be a very good week for me. Again you need to find out what the mileage is for that kind of gross and how many days a week you'll be running. My guess is that's is a potential earning, which most of times is unobtainable under "normal" circumstances, unless it is a dedicated run. And that would mean you probably gotta run 660 miles a day 7 days a week to make that kind of money. And that's extremely difficult with only 70 hr/ 8 day rule.