Independent and leased O/O average week gross

No 2 O/O even within the same company running the same lanes will make the same money.

What your asking has no realistic answer. One may tell you he NETs $2500 weekly,.. where another barely breaks even. Its not a steady rate,.. never has been. You have to take fuel and mechanical expenses into account as well. The vast majority may brag about their settlements,.. but never fill you in that he had to pay $1800 in repairs out of that $2500 he made that week.

Its different week to week. Some good some bad. This is a cut throat business where profits and success are are counted in cents.

Instead of asking how much guys are making,.. figure out what you need to earn and set up a business model that will support what you need. There are O/O's that work 2 days a week and live much better than others who run 7 days a week.

When I worked construction, used to get new guys asking me how much I made all the time. I used to lie just to get them riled up and tell them I made $4 - $5 more per hour than I did. They would get so worked up,.. I would tell them,.. you make your deal coming in the door. Trucking is no different.

Hurst

 

This would depend on if the woodchuck was on E-logs or paper.

 

there not going to pay up next round .. if things dont turn around soon there wont be a next round , if we keep taking this cheap freight theres no need for them to change . they won.. i refuse to take that cheap stuff . although one can still make over 2 a mile going within there state

 

The same debate has been going on since the first guy put a couple extra bushels of grain on his horse drawn buggy and got paid a roman coin for it. Two thousand years later product is still getting shipped. Supply and demand will always dictate rates. You either learn how to survive the lean times and how to take advantage of the good times, or you stay in a cycle of always struggling. no matter how bad the economy gets, there will be money to be made. It's up to us as individuals to figure out how to make it.

 

My trucks are averaging $2 - $2.39 per mile and they are not running in our state, but after the deadhead it brings us back down to $1.79 - $1.89 per mile. If you are choosy than you can still get the rate that you need. Last year we were running fewer deadhead miles so our rates were up overall. I did not break it off in the brokers or shippers because I thought that doing them right would pay us with loyalty in the bad times. So much for that idea, so you bet when the market comes back and it will, it always does. I will not show any mercy then next time around, I will get everything I can out of them for each and every load that we haul.

 

$1.79 per mile, all miles pulling containers 300 miles around Chicago.