What’s my best option for earning potential?

Gross pay?

To the truck or to the carrier?

Think ... always think ... to the truck.

If your numbers are to the truck ... that's better than others are getting.

 

If you got an aero truck and got out of the NE you could do better.

 

So they are charging you a percentage for van rental and insurance, fine. But it sounds like it's coming off the fuel surcharge amount also? That's not right.

 

How do you go from 2.80 down to 1 to 1.25? Running NE and with that fuel mileage not sure how your making much or any money.

 

1 mpg typically equates to roughly $10K year.

 

Do you mean 1-1.25 after you pay for your fuel, and all expenses accounted for? Leftover essentially being driver pay + (your) company profit?
At 2.80 for loaded miles which are 75% of about 2500 per week you're essentially grossing 5250 on 2500 miles or about 2.10 per mile.
So are you paying 15% of the 2.10? Or is it 15+4+9=28% of 2.10? Basically is the equation 100×.85×.87 or 100×.72 ?
One way you earn 73.95% other way you earn 72%. Pretty steep... if we saw off halfway at 73% your 2.10 for all miles looks more like 1.53 for all miles.... or is 2.80 YOUR cut after the 15% off the top and trailer rental/insurance is taken out?

Need more info for accurate numbers. For what it's worth last year on my own authority I did 2.639 for all miles (CDN$) which worked about to about 2.00 usd all miles on 102,129 miles. (I don't track empty and loaded). With a mix of shorter runs and west coast runs as well as home daily runs (pulling reefer, all cross border work) on 238 days worked. I also drive a hood, heavy all the time, and averaged 5.788 mpg(us) over the year. I spent 29% on fuel at 78,390. (Includes reefer fuel and def). For a per mile cost of .767 (c) or .577 usd per mile. I realize an aero truck would have probably netted me perhaps 1 mpg more... but for my situation, I don't really care, I don't want to drive one of those. But let's not turn this one into yet another aero vs hood debate....




.........because we all know the aero guys are just jealous anyway

 

There used to be a user on here, but he has been gone for a few years now, Mr. Haney. You can probably look up his old posts. He was the master of Cat engines and could program them any way you wanted. I suspect if you someone who can do this you should see higher mpg.

So if your deadhead is 20% your all miles rate would be 1.928. At 25%, 1.8075. That isn't horrible... in this current slow down, if you can maintain that, I would just keep doing what you're doing...

You should also look at what your gross earnings are, after your company's cut, then divide it by your miles, get yourself an all miles rate. The rest of your expenses, notably the ones that cost you per mile driven, fuel is what I'm talking about as the major one here, you can come up with a cost per mile to operate your truck. Then subtract the fuel cost from the all miles cost, also figure it out as a %, see what you have left. Multiply that by the number of miles you ran. Does this number support truck payments, insurance, and payroll for yourself?