Now I know where you hide out, I'll take you up on that next time I get out that way.
One came a little closer today - 9'1" wide KC to your home 20. His selling point was "Almost $5/mile" on the LS board.
$3.75 TTT divided by 2 (round trip) is $1.875 , then the deadhead . . . permits . . . you know the rest of the story.
The journey begins - purchased a truck.
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The first year I pulled hot oil tankers I pulled in just a hair over 5 bucks for all miles that summer, sometimes pulling doubles. Every year was a little less, until the last year when I started we were finishing a job we had started on the summer before, that I pulled 2 loads a day for 2800 a day, they decided to pay hourly on that job. I pulled it 2 days at 135 an hour, pulling doubles of hot oil grossing 151,000, paying hazmat insurance for 10 bucks an hour less that what I could get to drag a side dump around town, burning 50 gallons of fuel a day. I just couldn't do it any more, even knowing there would be better jobs as soon as I finished hat one. lol
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Running a van I did simple math. I wanted to see a net to the truck of about $750 per day that I was not sitting on my sofa.
My net average to the truck was 75% of booked freight value. ( Line haul at 72% because it was my trailer + the FSC and accessories at 100% yielded 75% of gross revenue)
If the load did not pay $1k per day or set me up to average $1k per day I was not overly interested.
For the OS/OD crowd I would expect that to be more along the lines of $1k per day + permits, escorts, and other "off the top" costs.
The per day costs break down to $200 to the driver, $300 in fuel, $150 for truck payment and maintenance, and $100 for insurance, plates, and the other charges pulled out of the settlement.
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Is that what caused you to sell your rentals Blair?
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We sold 2, 1 is on a rent to own with the only decent tenant we have/had , her oldest boy lives in the other one.
First name basis with the plumber - lol!
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