Company Driver to IC

Yes, I've heard there is some cheap freight out there. Most of what we have up here pays 1.40+ for out n back and 1.70+ for system.

 

One month in the books! So far my plan to run all summer is not working out. I was hoping to defer as much as possible to the winter, but that isn't happening at all. June is going to be a total bust thanks to downtime. I've got some truck issues being sorted out and some bureaucracy issues with the state keeping me home. It's a real pita to renew a CDL w/hazmat in this state. In North Carolina I did everything in one day, only had to wait for the fingerprints to come back. Here I have to ASK for an appointment (they decide the time/date) to get tested, then make an appointment for fingerprinting, then ASK for another appointment to actually renew everything.

So with 1 month of driving as an IC:
9154 odometer miles
8402 rated miles
8.3% OOR or PC (a lot of those extra miles was PC)
$14,776.66 gross
$10,818.85 after fuel and deductions, pre-tax net
$1.61 gross cpm all miles, $1.18 pre-tax net cpm
$0.40 cpm fuel cost (with discounts)

1 week at home, May 26 to June 1

If I can get running and stay running $18k+ is doable.

 

I'm still here, haven't updated this thread in ages but that will change soon. I spent most of July and August on the road. Did a lot of out n back in July and August was 100% system. So far in September I've been keeping close to home doing the regional stuff.

 

Things are going well enough, my trucks been much more of a maintenance nightmare than I had hoped for but I'm hanging in there. I'm expecting to pre-tax net $35,000 from being an IC since May. Not any better than being company driver; the downtime + maintenance has really added up. At this point in 2015 I had grossed about $65k. I'm kinda at the point that if I spend another 10k on extra maintenance I'm getting rid of the truck and going back to company.