Per miles rate

It means having an operating authority to haul for hire without being leased to a carrier. An MC number for interstate and/or any various state numbers for intrastate.

 

Owning your own truck and trailer does not automatically mean that you can go to a shipper or call a broker to get loaded. You have to obtain the authorization from the government agency FMCSA to perform such activities yourself----be a carrier.
OR
You can lease to another carrier (get hired), who has such authorization and haul under their name and their authority but they decide what you can what you cannot do, impose rules on you.

 

Except your not hired. It's a equipment lease and your a independent contractor.

 

I am having a hard time trying to understand what you mean by (too much) is there even such a thing in your mind?

I do not understand this thinking, My equipment is paid for and has been for a long time, I will not even consider running for one cent less than the guy with a big payment, and actually get much more, most of the time, because I am nit under the gun to run every day.
Even if your equipment is paid for, it will eventually have to be replaced or rebuilt, running cheaper not only hurts everybody else in the industry, but your self in the long run too.

 

My view is the same as yours. Let it sit for some fool to take. I was comparing the guy with the new truck/trailer and a high note each month to the guy with paid off equipment both running at the same rate.

 

Literally your own country. Able to hire out and get freight arrangements etc.

If I had 48000 pounds of widgets paying 2.50 a mile from LA to Avenel NJ at 2930 miles total you will take that in a heart beat. It's worth about 7325 dollars to you as a trucking company for 6 days work.

IF you had a team in that owner operator truck you can do that twice a week for me. Thats worth almost 15000 dollars to you. 60000 dollars a month overall income. Minus fuel and team driver pay which will be around a dollar. YOU will probably as a company net .30 a mile. Call it a personal income of about 7100 dollars for 23500 miles run each month.

However.

If you are just a company DRIVAH chump... none of that is for you. You get .34 cents a mile and that's it. ANY complaints will be referred to the Unemployemnt.