Lease to a company or run solo?

Depends on if you have your own trailer or not

 

Also, don't forget freight insurance

 

Depends on your abilities. It's like a cook asking if he should work for someone for a percentage of the profit, or if he should open his own restaurant.

 

Your right, $1.30 is low. I have leased to a few and run my own authority on a few. I have found the smaller companies CAN be good, IF your have the right dispatcher in place.
Currently the company i am leased to pays 80% of total Gross, including FSC, i'm averaging $2 a miles and dong 5K a week on a 5 day week without killing myself. Some weeks a little better. The Dispatcher i deal with is rather good at putting together lanes and watching the rates and areas to send me so he has been doing a pretty darn good job of keeping my rate per mile up there. I don't think i have done less then $2 a mile yet, (on a weekly average).
If your interested in the company i'm running with let me know, just message me.

 

Wow...I'm shocked that you would even consider that...lol

Counter their offer with $3/mile, then meet in the middle

 

How do you do 5k miles per week? Two logbooks?

 

$5k