Only one question that's important. Are you averaging a minimum of 1.75 a mile to the truck and getting 2200 to 2500 miles in a 5 day work week?
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$1.51 is below any market average. Running a team should increase the value of the truck, not decrease it. I get that you're happy now, but with the amount of mileage you'll be putting on the truck, it just takes one major down time to turn things around.REEFERman450 and Eldiablo Thank this. -
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Can’t compare average rates to someone doing power only.
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It doesn't really get much worse than dry van rates, so I'd say it's a pretty good baseline for comparison. The freight is still being moved in a van, so the person paying for it is probably paying van rates. You can take the cost of owning a trailer, likely 5-10 cpm, and subtract it from the averages. Even if you include deadheading, at the very best you'll be at the average for the worst areas of the country. Then consider that most of these loads are priced around solo drivers, not team. This is a worst case scenario for rates, too. I doubt they're running team exclusively in the worst parts of the country, doing regional short hauls.
If they diversify into OS/OD, pintle hitch with air brakes, driver assist, etc., or if they're booking loadouts and trying to fill them with freight, then it would be hard to compare averages. But hauling exclusively for one company pulling the same trailers seems like it would be easy to compare.
$1.50 is probably really close to the break even point, whether you have your own trailer or not. I would be comparing what I net against what I would make as a company team driver for a good line haul company.Cabinover101 Thanks this. -
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