Owner Operator Income
Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by Letsgetreal, Sep 12, 2017.
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The California to Washington lane is over ran with idiots who run triple brokered cheap freight. Do your research and weed out the “joker broker” and find a real one. Preferred would be one not named “Gill” or names of such.
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What is the average $/mile for loads from Brokers/loadboards in the US starting in MI for Dry Van?
Is $2.00/mile easy to get because I am trying to base my calculations at $1.80/mile... which is terrible when I calculate profits... Something must be wrong either $1.80 is too low or my expense to operate at $1.55/mile not including waste is too high
I have never operated in the US/long haul. I operate flatbed in Canada so kinda trying to get an idea and some calculations from experienced O/O in the US. -
$2/mile is easy to get out of MI. Plenty of 200 mile $400 freight out there you can go broke on.
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You can do well just doing Ontario pa ny nj md oh mi in il wi.....
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gokiddogo Thanks this.
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West MI is good but Detroit and Flint where I live suck. Even right now Detroit and Flint sucks.
When a broker calls and asks you to go Midwest 500 miles to MI and then has the balls to say "we usually cover this for $1000", are you gonna have the balls to ask for $1500++? Or are you gonna take it? That's the difference. -
MI to PA is okay but PA to MI sucks. If you go 400 miles into PA, $1000 is terrible. $1200 is normal broker rate but even that's too low. $1200 per day is what you should be averaging. PA 400 miles to MI pays $600-$700 so you would need $1700-1800 to go there and no broker will pay that unless they're desperate to not tick off a customer.
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