Rate/mile ????

you can do ten a month with mercer with your eyes closed and a week and a half off a month but You do not have enough experience.Just my opinion.

 

How much are you going to pay your driver? Without him the rest doesn't matter.

 

Just one idea.

 

What trailer are you wanting to pull??? That will make a BIG difference to not only your income, but your expenses too. My expenses are higher than the average freight hauler with the same truck payment, but so are my earnings.

Martin

 

I know you said fuel in there but I burn way more than $333 a day in fuel alone.

so from what I'm seeing you need to profit $2,500 a week after fuel, so if your making say $2/mi (just using this for a number) if you get 6mpg and fuel cost you $3.60 a gal that's $.60 cents a mile for fuel so you drive 2,000 miles a week $4,000 gross fuel to do that 2,000 miles would run you $1,200 take out your expenses @ $2500 that would leave $300 on the table

 

I'm just a company man, so this is just a question.... but I was looking at crst's load board the other day and it seemed every load was right about $2, maybe a little less. .. but that was without fsc. So its possible that less of your mileage pay would be used for fuel, yes? Still tryin to learn this myself..

 

yes in fact I'm doing a CRST load right now it's a 12 wide oversize when they called me on it first price offered to me was $2,600 for 1,000 miles sulphur,La going to Gary,In most drivers would of just booked it but not me I come back at him with $4,000 ended up at $3,600 and they covered the permits. Ill say this the fuel is broke down on my paper work and comes out to be $419.25. 80% of the loads I call on or see posted are under $2/mi in fact I don't like to call on loads with the price posted because they stick to that number.

 

shhhh.....you're giving away all the good tips.

 

In most operations by slowing down and optimizing fuel you should be looking at numbers closer to 7.5 mpg and .47 cpm for fuel. Thats over 13k a year back in the drivers pocket.