$7800 ca-mi-ca

Your drivers have no patience. If they're content with cheap long hauls of 1,500 to 2,000 miles more power to them. They have a mileage mentality and no patience. Personally I have a much easier go of it staying under 400 miles a day - keeping way more money than long haulers - and trying to work things out where I'm home almost every night or at least every other night. Got to use them noggins for something besides a hat rack otherwise you'll end up like MB_Guru thinking there's grand conspiracies everywhere.

 

Loads ot CO should be paying the avg of $3 mile. i just looked on LS board and there are several from the Los Angeles area paying that, and I can find them anytime.... it;s getting back out of CO that is going ot be the killer. Hence why the rates going there pay so well.

 

I haven't seen that at all going back to the midwest. Everything is in the $1.75-$1.90 range, granted it is all just light stuff under 20,000# too. I'm waiting till Monday to see what i can come up with. I have that LTL booked to p/u Wednesday, but If i can find something before then paying better, I'm on it.

 

they just let you landstar guys come off loads once youve booked it???

 

the major flaw in that plan is #3 sure the fixed costs per mile goes down the more you run, but your variable goes up also with more miles ran.

when that happens the actual bottom line may not change at all or little.

and in #4 you had better make more than a contribution toward your fixed costs, you better cover them or you only have a slowly failing business.

 

Not at all, the load I have is a LTL and I plan on picking it up Wednesday. I can pick it up anytime Mon-Tues-Wed, I just figured it might take me some time to line up another LTL to go with it. If i can find something paying a little better to go with it, then I'm on it and out of here before Wednesday. But the way the LTL stuff is going out here it just dosn't seem like it's gonna happen.