If you are faced with this choice and options A and B both give you a full week's work/ revenue for the next week do you:
A: go 1500 miles empty and usually make it up on the way back or
B: haul for the cost of fuel to more or less where you want to go and hopefully do better on the rounder than scenario A.
or
C: sit at least 2.5 days hoping you'll find something worthwhile doing.
Which would/ do you do?
And the survey says....
Run empty, run cheap or sit the weekend.
Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by Freightlinerbob, Oct 22, 2012.
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A. is out. Don't even think about going 1500 miles empty. It may take few rounders to make up for that...
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Don't sit it out, unless you don't feel like driving. Many will say: "Don't take cheap freight", but most of them will do it.
Unfortunately, us (O/O's) are way too small to change spot rates and in some ways, just a lil' too short on cash flow to be able to sit it out for that perfect load that most likely will never come.(way too many under bidding and cut throat O/O's out there)
I believe that freight market prices are in many ways dictated very similarly to oil prices. (it's all speculation,not fair and we are the ones that get double hit) -
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