Why oh why are you drivers taking this cheap freight????

Says the rookie.....

 

No one will need a new rig in four years, they can be retrofitted for less than the cost and all business expense deduction anyway.

 

Can't wait to get my 1.30 a mile freight headed home this week from Georgia. While all of you sit around for 2 weeks waiting for rates to jump up to some insane number I will be gladly headed home. enjoy your stay at teh local T/A or your 300 mile deadhead to a better freight lane. LOL.

 

Aren't you blaming the victim here? Your asking the driver, when you should be asking why these rates exist. I am almost positive those low rates were not caused by a driver.

 

Owner/operator or company driver.

 

I hope you enjoy running away from your house (Georgia) when everyone that is there is "going home" for 1.30. Your new outbound is 1.30, sir.

 

If you'd put more thought into you wouldn't have to take the easy $1.30 option and you wouldn't be parked in a truck stop waiting either. If you're going back to Chicago from Atlanta and you pick up a load in Atlanta paying $1.30 on those 700 miles you're saying that is much better than deadheading to Nashville and or Louisville for a reload to Chicago? Even if the 700 miles from ATL to Louisville to CHI has you at $1.30 it's still head and shoulders much better than $1.30 from ATL all the way to CHI. More empty miles paying the same is always better than cheaper loaded miles. The end result is the same except while you laugh at the guy deadheading 300 miles really that driver pulled it off a little slicker than you.

 

I am giggling over that whole conversation now.


I see reading comprehension isn't high on some folks skills list.

If he's LEAVING Georgia, and heading home, he's apparently not FROM Georgia now so that $1.30 freight isn't his load away from his house, but TO his house. Which he never said where it was. But if you look at his name block shows Illinois.

 

Dang. You got me there. Point is still the same though.

 

And it goes on the law of averages....


If he's going down there for $3.50/mile, coming back at $1.30 per mile same distance, he's doing it for an average of $2.40 per mile.

If his goal is to only run 2000 mile a week and earn over $2.25 per mile average, he's met his goal.

Why screw around and sit in a truck stop trying to better it? My time is worth considerably more than that.



He's only giving you a "small" picture of what he's doing. Until you know the rest of it. Who knows....