$1.03 a mile

How do you you know EVERY situation that EVERY O/O is in everyday? You don't know that the $1.03 load was sitting a mile from my house, took 15 minutes to load, and 15 to offload. It weighed 15,000 and no tarp. I was going that way anyway... You may think thats bad business and that is your prerogative. When brokers and shippers have easy loads like that and its not time sensitive, they put stupid cheap numbers online hoping a guy like me will take it.
If you're worried that guys are trying to make a living doing buck a mile freight regularly, don't. Don't worry about them, they'll be gone soon enough. Guys like me who know haw to find filler work to minimize deadhead we will be around a while. If you choose to be the guy sitting two weeks at the truckstop whining about not getting good paying loads out of Denver or Miami, don't blame me for relocating to a better area and having someone buy my fuel to get me there. Im third generation in this business, I was "triangulating" loads before anyone ever heard that term.

 

So I say I would bounce empty to the good paying load and you interpret that as I would bee sitting in Miami for weeks whining about no good loads. Umm ok.

As for your easy on easy off hypothetical load, yes they exist. But you might find one a year like that. The other 99 percent of the time that cheap load going to where you want to go turns out to be a time dump. That's just the way cheap freight is, brokers and shippers with good freight have a decent rate, the ones wanting to pay bottom of the barrel are just not easy fast loading no tarp loads. They are 48k pounds of lumber that take all day to load.

 

My point was, addressing your "bad mentality" comment. How can you say I have a "bad mentality" when you have no idea what the situation is?

 

I changed my mind.
I DONT like this guy. He just taught everybody how to run cheap freight.

 

It took me 10 months to make 50...####. I need smarten up. That's ridiculous. Awesome job.

 

Sounds good.

 

I visit the repair shop regularly. It's called before an after trip maintenance.
Not necessarily for repairing my truck but I feel better about going back out on the road when I know my mechanic has looked over things can't or won't see. But I see your point

 

I like this guy. If you put your truck on the load for cheap then you are going to get cheap freight. Nothing wrong with putting $3 per mile on the load board...I've done it and they do exist and I have a 99 Freightliner Classic n a new reefer.
I refuse to get out of bed for less and neither will the rest of the family. I am not going to be out on the road with a bunch of asswipes away from my family for pennies on the dollar. I know a guy who runs flat bed for $4 a mile and he puts it on the load board. Yes I called his ######## and son of ##### he's running just that.

My mother has been around this industry for 30 years they call her the ##### and she proud of it but she always got the paying freight. She told me years put your big boy pants on and stand your ground! I do. So when you see me on the load board for $3 a mile ...you know its either him or me! Produce pays!

 

First of all, you have no clue what I need to earn to be profitable. $50K gross in six weeks is awesome, I do that occasionally (when my Paccar runs) but I spend more than you to do that 50K so its not as awesome for me as it is for you. You don't know what kind of work I do (i don't really even know what to call myself) I think you live in a box, a box where everyone has a freight trailer and calls brokers to get work. I use load boards less than 5 times a year. When I do have to use a load board it means Im stuck somewhere that I need to get out of, If one of my regular customers that give me $300K a year worth of work wants me to be 800 miles away day after tomorrow, should I just deadhead? You guys are all experts on what I need to charge to make money. You blame other people for "ruining freight prices" when you have no clue why they do it sometimes. Bottom line, Im going to put 3 times the money in my pocket this year than the average OTR O/O, you may earn 4 times as much... Congratulations, if you can do that while NEVER EVER pulling ANYTHING at a less than profitable rate, you have figured out something that I haven't. I have neither the financial means nor desire to deadhead 800 miles just to "keep freight prices up", I need to make a $2,700 house payment and put a few kids through college. I'll keep doing os/ow and using my off road equipment when I get to a jobsite, sometimes that means hauling stuff cheaper than others. If what you are doing is woking for you, keep doing it, I will.

IMG_2966 by Guntoter posted Dec 27, 2015 at 12:03 PM

IMG_2957 by Guntoter posted Dec 27, 2015 at 12:03 PM

 

Now that last pic is cool.