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a good rate isn't a good rate, if you burn up all your expensive fuel chasing down rates. and wearing down your truck. and burning up that clock also.

but that's just me.

 

I always figured burning up your fuel hauling cheap loads was worse. If the end result from 2 different ways of operating - low deadhead and lower rates versus high deadhead higher rates - is that the numbers are the same the higher deadhead way is less wear and tear, is better to me. If you're running a tight ship it isn't all that difficult to think out ahead several moves and keep moving even in a higher deadhead situation. For some reason everyone thinks you have to sit around and wait on things to happen? It does happen but no more so than even with trucks that'll roll out on lower rates. I don't get the burning up your clock thing. It's not really a concern.

 

I would much rather deadhead a few hundred miles for a better paying load, even if it averaged out to be the same money per mile as taking the closer cheap load to a better area. Less wear and tear on the equipment and just a piece of mind knowing your not fattening up some greedy brokers bank account.

 

I think snowwy holds the record for derailing threads with questionable information here on ttr. Sometimes I wonder if he (?) even holds a CDL...

 

This^^^^^^^^^^

 

I live an hour and a half north of the GWB and never pay that toll, I run up either 17 or 287 in Jersey to 87N ( about $7) and I 84 across the Newburgh Beacon bridge (12.50), a lot cheaper and not much traffic.

 

everyone has a minimum for which they haul. do they not.

deadhead hundreds of miles for a better rate. as far as im concerned. i got $2 going out for that better rate. i made money. instead of wearing the truck down adn burning up fuel for free. $2 met my minimum.

burning up the clock. well, you can't just unplug the thing and roll without using up some hours.

 

don't blame me, if you don't understand the logic.

what most of you preach. is only realistic in certain parts of the country. in other parts of the country. it's unrealistic. and your just running your truck into the ground. we'd all like to haul for $3+. NONE of us want to bounce several hundred miles chaseing $3. and none of us certainly like to haul cheap. we don't like to haul heavy either. but again, that's only realistic in one part of the country.

i don't haul for less then $2. that still makes me money. and if it's all that's available. to get me from dead freight to good freight. i'm certainly not passing it up. $2 is better then FREE.

if i'm going to have to bounce. if i'm going to have to burn up $4 per gallon worth of fuel. if i'm going to put wear on my truck. if i'm going to have to use up my clock. i'm going to make money. and $2 makes me money.

i musta missed the logic somewhere, because i was under the impression that the whole idea was to MAKE MONEY.

 

So that is the disconnect. Thinking that you can make money in trucking.

 

If you were going up I-95 say north jersey to Maine do you know the increase in milage going that way??