Flatbed percentage

Oh hold it a minute ! I pay for licenceing and insurance .

 

Well I'm in a different market.. However that sounds like a lot of long days of work for ok money...
I dont know the market there, I can't speak to better or worse opportunities.

I'll commit to saying I wouldn't sign up with a place that expected 6-700 miles a day every day/more than maybe once a week.

The money question is really one for you to decide. Does it pay enough for you? Does it provide enough gross to keep your net respectable in your eyes?

 

Most flatbed carriers pay 75% plus fsc. Carrier pays insurance. You bring your own trailer or rent one from them.

 

% is relative tho. Place by me advertises 85%/87% but there rates are trash in comparison to many other carriers. Including those carriers paying 70-75%.

Gotta look at the sum total regarding the pay and what comes with it.

 

I'm with you there. Maybe once or twice a week if it means the difference between catching a reload or sitting for a day. Usually depends how my week is going.

I hustle when I need to.. but I'm not out here to work any harder than I have to either. 300 to maybe 500ish a day is where I've settled in at. Pay a higher rate usually.. unload and reload in the same day usually as well.

Trying to load a 700mi run and expecting to get a reload and enough sleep in the same 24hr period is pretty much impossible.

I'm comfortable with 1800 to 2500ish mi a week.

Hurst

 

I don't blame you. Mountains or traffic riding those kinds of distances wears me out. I did 900 yesterday/ today. Tomorroe gonna do like 50 & take off Thursday to even it out.
I have a max mile limit per week. 2k n no more truck driving. I don't care if it's Tuesday.

 

*900 between yesterday n today- not each day. F that

 

I seldom run more than 450 miles a day ..I'm getting old and don't give a hoot .