Prime Leasing questions. Who's can help?

Why would they do it? Simple. Someone lied to them and said that they would be an O/O. In reality, they have entered into indentured servitude.

 

Are you getting 14mpg or was it a typo???

 

i get between 7.5 and 8.3...my calculations include the fuel surcharge and prime discounts

 

I have a quality truck on if I don't like it here I can move it to over 125 different company

 

I did not want to be the first to say that but I gross over 7000 a with 2500 to 2700 miles per week p/o

 

I really didn't want to get in the details. To me gross doesn't mean anything. Net take home after fuel and percentage cut. In my opinion most get tricked with the gross. For example Independent oo grosses $6k, lets say he spend $1200, he nets $4800. A schneider oo grosses $8k, after company cut $5200 minus fuel, now he nets $4k. Like i said gross doesn't mean anything.

 

I hear you you have a good point, because a lot of us only here the load let's say paying 1900, but forget to ask how much miles and when it pick and when it drop are how much drop are pick up lol I have seen guys got burn like that

 

hey what does p/o mean?

 

hey guys so lets get down to brass tacks. I hope I'm not hijacking this thread, but I want to know where I can gross 5k+ a week minimum. or...if you wanna talk net...where can i take home 2000 a week every week. I live on my truck, no home time, ever. Prime has been good to me...this week i will gross 5100...but when i do 3000 weeks i bring home lile 800 bucks. where and how to net 2k+ a week? i was thinking quality lease and roll under great wide authority with some brokers over there.

 

.. actually .. my "gross" numbers is the gross amount paid to truck after Prime's cut (28%) .. it does not include fuel expenses and other variable expenses .. if you run a truck and know what you spend in fuel per mile and you have run it under another company's authority then you are already familiar with your largest variable cost and fixed costs associated ..

.. it's not terribly hard math .. and as I mentioned before, I don't get into pissing contests about who's company or situation is better .. "weekly average" is a wide open paying field based on a whole lot of issues, not the least of which is "work ethic" (how hard you push yourself) or if you take a day off between loads ..

.. best of luck to any driver out there .. it's not an easy business .. I've been with family who drive either as an o/o or l/o or for a company my entire life .. and I have been in and out of it over the last 30 years in one form or another (from emergency equipment, box/straight, semis, etc.) and full-timing it for the past 2-1/2 .. it's a life ..