$3.00 a mile

Yes. Home every day and working four days a week.
Suckers.

 

I'd get a kick out of sending you a week's worth of confirmations, any week would do, and gauge your reaction. Another member and i were emailing about this. He's leased to a different company and lives in Louisville. Runs some of the same spot lanes and do and works with some of the same brokers. We laugh how if you flatbed guys saw what some of us are making with vans you'd be selling your flats and trying to get in on the action. Some of my buddies at F2F have been at it long enough too and they know what the deal is.

 

Apples to oranges Rollin'. Skate-Board likes to run WY to MA just to make it tough on his dispatcher.

 

This is what Oakley pays. I made more by far at Watkins Shepard.

 

Bruce Oakley out of little rock or another Oakley

 

If they charge $1pm to move freight they would be out of business by now.

 

I've gotten so many high dollar loads on good miles from the likes of JB Hunt, Swift, Knight, USA truck, USxpress it doesn't even amaze me anymore. That driver would flip out.

 

I see your user name, and I'm not picking on you, but your fellow wedge drivers are a large part of the problem. You used to be able to make a killing off of Central Dispatch before the proliferation of guys who pretend to be carhaulers drove the rates through the floor. And the big fleets bidding ramps at backhaul rates has only exacerbated the problem. But I hope they keep it up; spot buy money is like holding a bag under a money spigot, and no carrier will ever properly service a ramp at the cheap rates.

 

It's sad b/c there is a lot of rate built into freight transportation. Drivers aren't saving the shipper any money by pulling freight for cheap. The money goes to whoever they are leased to, or broker. Rollin coal brings up a great point, I've pulled loads for usxpress, knight, smith, and other big companies that payed over 3$ a mile. Makes you think of how much of a killing those companies are making when guys take loads for 1.75-2$. The title of this thread is 3$ per mile as a sarcastic notion. That's exactly where you need to be, and it's an achievable mark.

 

Just consider for a second - When you take that great load from "one of the bigs" that pays $3-$5/ mile, it is typically for a customer that they move dozens or even hundreds of loads per week for. The chances that that customer's average cost to move freight is $4/mile for all loads that they ship is nearly 0. On a multi-million dollar contract, taking a hit to get a load moved on time is well worth it, just to keep the customer happy. They know that they can cover much of the contract for $1.50 - $2 / mile, so it all evens out.