What would you do?

@Natural
Read this thread.
Finally got my own truck

 

I used to be like that too. It is one good prerequisite. But I would try OTR as company driver to see if I like it first...without being enslaved by a bank. Besides, you have to find and buy insurance for the adventure, are you even going to find an underwriter to consider you...young age and no experience. I don't want to sound discouraging but do some reading first: Double Yellow or BoyWonder threads are great and fun to read.

 

So you're gonna book loads from a guy that gets them from a broker? So now your paying 2 guys to supply you with one load, not a very good plan IMO

 

And your date is your right hand.

 

And this is the whole problem with your thinking. You should not be looking at cpm as the Holly Grail of pricing. You should be looking as Dollars / Day. People have posted here before an why you need to do this.
As for the answer, it depends. If you an do 2 30 miles runs a day thanks to load/unload time you might wanna ask for $40.00 a mile. If you do one 400 mile run a day you might get away with $3 a mile. You might not....