$7800 ca-mi-ca

For a $1.78 I would have passed.

 

To drag a fuel sucking container around? And then end up back in California? Not a penny less than $3 a mile. And before you say that will never happen, it can, will, and does. You just need to know where to look.

 

A container on my type of truck (flat-top) would have net'd me about 5mpg at best, no matter the weight (loaded or empty). I would have booked the run as a "loaded" turn since you HAVE to bring the container back to CA. SO $9,500 would have been the cheapest I would have done it. If the wheels are tunring, my average must be $2 mile minimum. The only saving grace on that load would have been if it had an open p/u and delivery date, that way I could find a LTL to fill up the other 8' (or 13' if a 53 trailer) to help out......

But hey, if your guy is happy then you did your job.

 

Is California that bad of an area for you?? I have no idea how outside load boards and freight look. CA is a good area for me so far, as the loads out there pay me around $3 mile and the one's coming back are in the $2.25 range out of LA and the suburbs, going to NY/VA/FL/TX. The one's to our honey hole (IN/IL/IA/OH) unsually pay in the $1.90-$2.00 range as well. My saving factor is getting OS loads out of Wilmington and Compton which are making me $3 mile PLUS my permits back. But as of Jan 1st, I can no longer go to CA unless I get a newer truck.... rates aren't THAT good LOL

 

Going to agree with Oscar here, that rate would only get the container moved one way.

 

You know I can't answer that.