Are you happy you are an Owner Op?

I was in awe last year seeing so many here scorning at 2 dol per mile e.g. grossing 200K on 100K all miles, like they believed that 3 dol per mile was like Gravity or Oxygen, a thing permanently granted by Mother Nature. Yes most, including myself, were averaging more, or much more but it was not an average market.

I even remember some saying the phrase: "Don't be that 2 dol per mile guy" I was thinking WTF...am I so cheap minded or are they so full of it?

Well, not that I really cared...but I know that If I can average 2 dol per mile on 80- 90K miles every year ---- I will retire in 15 years a happy person. Which is not to say that I will not aim higher.

But the message is this: if 2 dol per mile is too cheap for some of you then I am glad...I will keep doing my thing while and you won't.
As someone once said to me here "I don't give a rat's ### what others are running for, I know what my rates are" After a couple of years, I could not agree more.

Important to note that I am talking about a dry van, which requires more mileage and more moves than other types of equipment.

 

A small regional company in the Midwest. Not sure what you mean by company fixed costs. I get 73% of the gross, they get 27% for dispatch, trailer, and blower. I don’t have any fixed costs with the company. The more I work the more each of us gets.

 

I'm going to JBHUNT cause this is too hard.

 

Joe it's nearly 2020, incase you didn't know.

When are some of you gonna get out of the $2-mile mindset?

Some of us have more of a maintenance regimen that requires more than just putting duct tape on a volvo...

 

“RECOIL”.......... not to late. Told ya......

 

No need to pay anymore with the amount of suckers that will run it...

 

Btw, have you tried getting a quote on truck insurance ?