Need help evaluating an offer from a 2 truck company

1099 means YOU pay your taxes every three months to uncle sam, to your state, and to your local town. And then deductions for your ss etc.

ANy time I see 1099, I run unless Im a pure owner operator and have to deal with taxes.

Your 750 escrow will vaporize on a bad OSD situation any time. So that's gone.

What about Exhaust treatment fluid?

Your 3.00 a gallon does not compute properly into a equivilant company mileage pay. Best I can think is your fuel burn per hour on your engine... 20 gallones time 3 = 60 dollars an hour divided by 45 mph fleet average. 1.33 a mile in mountain country me thinks.

You will take your taxes off the top after whoever else gets their money. Truck first, repairs etc second and you, the human last.

I think you will do well. But be very careful. A bad week with no load can wreck it all.

 

OSD. Over, short and Damage.

Sorry about that. Heck spouse and I still say that to each other choosing freaking cans inside walmart. This dent, OSD.. let's choose another.

 

Don't know if I'm reading it correctly. But, paying for fuel out of 32% is just stupid. Paying for whatever fuel additive like lucas is fine, if that is what the policy is. Paying for fuel or DEF is not. As for additive, use it, do not use it, whatever you feel like. As for anti gel, let the #### thing run if you are not paying for fuel.

32% of dollar a mile freight is .32cpm Dollar fifty is .48cpm and the rare 2 dollar a mile off load board would be .64 with you paying all your own taxes and health care. I would be out on the driver charge back policy of OSD. You are not paying for cargo insurance, the carrier (ie your boss ... the person that should be paying you W2) is.

 

Ugh. Minefield for me.

Anything consumed in a business down to paperclips can be deducted.

70 a week for DEF? omg. That's good money.

Anti gel wont save you if you shut down long enough in -20 or colder. My defense is to hot fuel, run engine because it equaled life in temps approaching -60 And we have gelled fuel before (That is a story I don't mind telling too much...)

We had the volvo, a 89 ES Sleeper cab with a 350 I think it was a cummins. serviced at the shop requiring the fuel to be disconnected. They opened one tank, failed to open the other which proceeded to Gel that week. 2 days later coming up to Roanoke the engine drained the one tank that was open, sucked air and then quit on I-81 a mile north of the Fancy Gap Road literally 15 minutes after a full fueling that had us discussing why one tank was revealed to be full at the Petro. It was winter. Not too cold that week 10 above to 15 below constantly. It gelled.

We dumped it. A tank load of fuel. Sheesh. I think the ghosts of the dead from that bk outfit are still yelling to this day, remember Deseil was considered expensive at 1.10 then.

 

Don't do it man. You'll be sitting at the truck stop getting his call to roll empty 200 miles away just to earn 32% of $1200 minus your 200 miles spent to pick up, the distance(fuel, tolls,scale tickets) and time for the trip, minus your dues, minus your taxes due =dumb slave

FYI, def is like 15 a week

 

Ok appreciate the update on DEF. Shows what a old dog like me can learn.

 

He'll be smoking cigarettes for breakfast, eating off the dollar menu for lunch, and drinking coffee for bed. Lol