Best lease truck company? 1000 take home

I see it as plausable. I live in the black hole of florida and manage to book loads keeping me local for weeks at a time pulling truckload. So i believe it can be done consistently in better areas. Especially if you contracted to a company that specializes in that market.

 

Ok, can you explain to me how or why you feel it will effect an owner operators bottom line. However i would like to keep that discussion about independents and small carriers that currently run legal. It will obviously effect guys that have to fudge the log book in order to generate their profit levels, but that is a different discussion.

 

You can net $2000 a week leasing at those megas if you train newbies. Bad thing is you run your truck 4000 plus miles a week to earn that plus you are training a newbie in your truck.

 

Screw that. I'll keep running much less miles and net more and let the newbies trash someone elses truck. The closest affiliation i have ever had with a mega is the occasional brokered load when they were in a bind and willing to get bent over to get the load covered and keep the customer happy. It didn't happen often but when it did that was a 2k $ net day for me.

 

I agree, under the right conditions, it is plausible. The highest paying company job I ever had was a local job. I was making $45,000/yr and home everyday, and that was in 83-89.

 

A fine example of "working smart".

 

That's a few years before my time. I've never been a company driver but have buddies that have tried to convince me to park my truck and go to a few of the local outfits here. There is about a half dozen places i could go to today and be earning from 65k on the low end to 85/90k on the high end. No matter how many times i tell them I'm not interested they keep badgering me every couple months. I guess they feel that since the weren't profitable as an owner operator it isn't possible i am.

 

At that time I was making 24% of the revenue of the truck so you can just about figure out what that truck was making.

 

The rate my pal in ND is getting is 120 to 150 an hour and most of his time is sitting doing nothing...his wait times can be 4 hours a load, gets paid regardless..he'll stay out 16 hours...he say his low week is 10k....has a crappy 900 dollar fema trailer he stays in...goes home to nashville in winter...Alot of the 150 an hour stuff is down to 105 due to oil prices...but he's making a bunch
He pays drivers 400 a day to run his truck when he goes home...Rates and pay methods vary...but crude is still 'in' up there...fracking/water/sand will make a ton too if it comes back...I was just tossing it out there chasing your question..
Obv theres alot more to just going to ND....The roads to the pads are horrible washboard pitted roads...trucks get beat up real quick...gotta have plan for housing etc etc

 

Yep. Rates have basically remained stagnant while costs have gone up. But that's true in pretty much every industry in America. With a few exceptions my most profitable period was the late 90s through early 2000's. I started basically right or of high school in 95 running part time while going to college and i made decent money, but it took till about the 2nd half on 98 before i learned enough for it to really click and my profit numbers more than doubled almost over night. Now knowing how to wisely use that profit instead of blowing it took quite a few more years and an economic crash to teach me.