Intermodal Questions

Are you a shipper or broker?

As every segment of trucking right now, there's a capacity crunch. Most companies either work directly with a steamship line or a customer directly for ocean containers. For domestic containers, there's only a handful of choices and it's all contract.

 

$1 a mile stuff around here, + FSC... Where are you located?

 

That's not what the company is charging, that's what they pay an IC.

 

Yep, but he did not quite clarify what he is. Just assuming an IC, or should I say a lease operator.

 

That was my first gig as an O/O, hauling Pigs, Cans, amd LTL...... Checks where there every week. Paid of my first truck and move on to better things. The problems was, the better things where there all along while I was scraping from the bottom of the barrel.

 

I scratch my head when I see these guys dragging those, in many cases, death traps down the road. They pay around $1.20 a mile around here, with FS. I know what it costs to run my paid for truck, and that does not cut it. Not even close, and their trucks show it. See them pulled over quite a bit. Not worth it to me, even on a bad day.

 

I pull cans out of Cleveland Ohio. Some weeks gross 2.00 per mile. Average 1.50. Not to many issues, but tires leave a lot to be desired. Home most every night. I average 84000 miles a year.

 

I pull cans out of Cleve Oh also. Average bout the same $. Even the miles. Tires are the worst part..shouldn't be allowed on the highways. I stress out in warm months with motorcycles riding beside my trailer!

 

I would find a company that will pay you a high percentage of what they charge for the load, not a per mile. Most companies that I've heard of want you to be a lease operator, and are paying 75% to the truck, I know of other companies paying 90% to the truck all plus FSC.