Any Owner Operators willing to let me pick their brain?

You missed how this goes, 1.75 is MY operating cost before the company (and brokers cut) and not taking into account everything else, the bottom you are getting me to haul it on a good day for you is 2875 ( about 3$/ mile)

 

Yeah what @skallagrime laid out makes a lot of sense.

Lets call your run 1000 miles because the truck can’t teleport to the pickup. So, Skall said his bare bones rate is $1.75/mi which is right on the money for a single operator. He said his target profit for All miles is $2.50 or better. That’s good money and also still reasonable.

Further, he has to get back to Indiana, that’s another 1000 miles. 2000 mile round trip at $2.50 a mile is $5000. Well, he will be fortunate to get $1500 coming home. So, that means he needs $3500 from you. He can make even more money by finding a better paying load back through secret developed over time connections. That would allow him to run it for you for cheaper but that would only make sense in a slow market. Right now he still charges you 35 and ends up doing 6k on the turn and $3/mi all hub miles. This is how trucking works.

 

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Incidentally, if youre actually serious about this and want it run closer to the 2800 mark i stated say next week,
You can pm me and ill get the guy in the office on it, but we are busy right now and the northeast is not where our freight really is.

Now if youre in massachusets, repeat buisness is unlikely, but out of north vernon indiana repeat stuff, wouldnt mind setting you up on reasonable rates and you dont have to keep hunting.

Part of developing a relationship with a shipper (for us at least) tends to be a higher price when youre testing us out (and we're also testing you out for pay, how much of a pain the puckups/deliveries are) then volume allows us to drop rates a little.

For us since we arent hurting for freight, theres no point in us coming in low to get your buisness and then jacking rates up or continuing to haul for pennies every time

 

When I threw this into our software for an estimate, I come up with $2900, or $2.93 a mile which is the base amount, I would add 12% onto it to be safe to deal with delays. This includes the deadhead to the pickup and the two hours of time to load and unload.

The truck would move to Boston and grab something out of there back toward the west.

I would think anything less than $2500 if this the only load on the deck, it is a desperate owner.

 

Call laveque or Capello, don’t even waste your time with anyone else up here

 

@singlescrewshaker wanna move this guys backhoe Lol.

 

No!!
Me & ol Buck are get'n a pile o brick slapped on & southbound for the home 20.. Gotta be a good little Mama's boy Catholic & be home for Easter.. lol