Lane Rate per mile check?

There are a lot who complain about rates and say there's no money in trucking. Think they're one in the same?

 

Why are people so obsessed with clearing 100k? You think 50k miles to clear 75k is bad yet you'll do 85k more miles just to clear another 25k more?

Yeah, how thick your wallet is might matter, but so does your time. I cleared less than 100k last year but I only worked 154 days. I enjoy my time off. I didn't get into trucking to only be home a few days a month.

 

If I need 100K, yes. The example I gave is extreme and laughable though. I average more than 1.40 a mile but less than 2.00 a mile too. I want my 100K and have time to mow my lawn at least once a week. Good for those who can get better rates, but I cannot sit and keep practicing my persuasion skills on them to pay me 3 $ a mile, it is not happening. I can only imagine that averaging more than 2 bucks a mile or more is the result of running a relatively small volume, and grossing very average total. If I had more than 2$ mile on all 100K miles a year I am a millionaire in 15 years. How many retired o/o are millionaires? How many ever lived long enough to retire?

 

100K looks so sexy too me. It is attainable too, even with 1.65 on all another sexy 100k miles a year.

 

Fair enough. I guess it comes down to how bad you need them money. I don't have truck payments and my wife make good money as well so I can sit around at home and wait for good loads to pop up. If I tried to keep the truck rolling every day possible, my average would probably be much lower.

 

Guys kill me that can't be patient for the money. Yeah there are times when you book and go the best you can get but there are times when patience pays off big dividends. Blitz week is like a big freebie open checkbook every year. A gift from above. Hell I do probably 12 or 15 loads a year like the one I booked on Monday. That is a HUGE chunk of change in the overall picture of the year. Big revenue on easy miles. It really opens up so many options when you can score big on a load.

I always said you don't have to hit a home run every day on every load. You really only need one good load like that a week that you can build around. It's how you push averages. Of course there are weeks that go by you seldom see opportunity like that. I get it. But keep telling yourself it doesn't happen or it's fantasy. It's no wonder you never see it.

 

I can see already, that had I skipped winter time, my rate per mile would serve well this "look at me! I don't haul cheap" propaganda. No matter what rates are to be for the remainder of the year, I will not average more than 2 bucks, but if I were to start now and quit before Christmas, who knows. Average, or prospective o/o, especially those planning to invest heavily on new equipment should not hope for $2 per mile average on all miles and keep it up the whole year.

 

Trust me 2 bucks a mile ain't gonna make a millionaire.

 

Who said anything about not hauling cheap freight? Cheap freight serves it's purpose. You pick your battles out here -when and where your rates are down, when and where they aren't. Or you should be imo. You're exactly right prospective o/o looking to get into this should not have unrealistic expectations. At the same time there's unlimited possibility out here.

 

That's crazy many you rather run85k more miles for a extra $25k ? That's a lot of extra work for a tiny bit of pie