2018 Coming To An End...A Year In Review

No I don’t use factoring, or any quick pay that the broker takes a percentage of. I had enough cushion to wait for the money to roll in when I started, and it’s been fairly steady since then. The things that killed me are the downtime due to unusual repairs like the new hood. The body shop took a good 2 weeks total time that I could have been working. Then the differential then went out 600 miles from home cost me 3 days work. I’m not going broke by any means, but I’m a good $20,000 behind where I thought I’d be by now.

 

I am paying $150.00 for DAT Power. I think that $300.00 is Power DAT version that includes Lane Makers and Shipper to Carrier rate averages. I tried that for a month but I could not find it very useful. The standard Power version with regular 15 days lane rate average should be $150. I tried Truckers Edge Pro for $100 but I like multiple search ability too much.

 

I've been looking at mine as well. I have an even six months with my own authority and the first six months this year leased on driving an expedite van. All in all I'm blown away at how good a year it's been. I've exceeded my planned numbers and the truck has been pretty reliable, less than $10k in total maintenance this year including some bigger jobs like king pins and a radiator.

I'm not getting rich but I'm pretty happy that can take home about 60% of gross (I think) at this grossing about 5 grand a week on average. No complaints!

 

Yes you are correct I did try Lane makers once and the places I go to I already have a Lane so I didn't really need it... I may upgrade to the standard Power version just so I can get the multiple search ability.

 

At this rate you should pay it off before the emission problems start manifest themselves, then before that happens another new replacement, I guess? I am thinking along these lines myself.

 

No, not bad at all. Rolling average of $2.81/mi? That's pretty ###### solid.