Are rates over $2 a mile common for an Owner Operator?

Rubber duck kw said: ↑

If nobody would move loads for under that yes. 3 bucks a mile isn't even that exceptional right now, fuel is 3 bucks a gallon and my whole life I've heard price of a gallon of fuel is what the rate per mile should be. There are going to be some loads out of some areas that will never pay that simply because they have more freight coming in than going out, but even they should not be horribly missing that mark. That's 25 years of listening to people who owned their own trucks and were running their own authorities.
Now running for a company like Schneider you won't see that, they always need their commission and office fees and whatever all else off the top, assuming they're showing the rates they're being paid before scalping you. Also assuming they have a lot of long term customers that they may bid lower than the spot market rates you see on the public load boards, there's something to be said for steady, consistent work and not depending on the leftovers which is essentially what public load boards like DAT, ITS, are it seems.
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Assuming they’re showing the rates is a huge leap

I was leased to a 90% company and recently moved to a 75% etc

The exact same loads for the new company that I hauled for the last are a lot higher gross than that of the old one

I’m also certain the 90% company was doing more hiding of $$ than lowballing their bids

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