Pricing your Truck Per Hour

I agree w/Ridgeline's thought.Myself id have to say 100 an hour-10 hour min,fair n covers the day.When you say-NJ/NY to PA,CT etc-oooooh boy-thats traffic-grand a day starting to look cheap.

 

Truck/trailer and driver = $115 an hour and up (if you can get it)

 

THIS ^^^

Remember, there's multiple entities that need to get paid.

You, The Truck, and Employee (if you have one), taxman?

You = $50/hr

Truck = $25/hr

Employee = $25/hr

Taxes & Incidentals = $12.50/hr


AAAAANNNNDD.....

Min 4hrs breakout pay....just like any other "hourly" job

 

I know right? My sister is a nurse and makes $75 an hour and full bennies. No equipment costs.

 

Same page. A grand a day, and that's not being greedy.

 

For $72 an hour, I'd park it in your lot and let you look at it, load it but if I bump the key?.......price goes up!

 

Is trucking on per hour contracts really that low of pay? Back when I worked installing installing and fixing computer networks the company I worked for billed out $100-$150/hr (depending on how long term a contract was signed) That's one guy in a company compact (read cheap) car.
Heck even when I need a plumber, or furnace work, or other services like that I plan on paying $100+ an hour.

 

If I could fetch $120 consistantly, I'd still be haulin dirt.

 

Yea I was off! I had been doing 650 minimum for anything under 200 miles.....when I get back at it in a couple of days that is going to 850.

Heck I may raise it again soon after reading here!

 

Adjust that as needed driver. I many times quote $1,000 on more on less than 200 mile van and reefer runs just out of annoyance. You eventually get fed up with wasted time for anything less than that. A truck ought to be booking $1,000 a day minimum. I cut off potential or even interupt inevitable whining or sniveling comments by saying that is my daily rate.

And if demand is there I charge more, sometimes a lot more. Lots of brokers pass on it and thats perfectly fine by me. But it's always good when they do accept it never any regrets.

And regardless what BS a bunch of cheap ones posting on social media about never paying anything like that they, or at least their brethren, do in fact pay that kind of rate all the time. I book them and I see buddies book them routinely. You ask for it every time in decent markets and you'll start booking them too.

There's nothing better in my book than a short haul with a profitable day rate attached to it.