Bare minimum miles?

You need to run your own numbers to answer that. Some people have been parked for the last month and are doing fine. Some people lose everything running 4,000 miles a week.

 

HAHAHAHAHAHA....

Something will happen, you will wait some time then find that you are going to miss a few days work getting back...

That's one problem...

Trucking is all or nothing. There is no bare minimum unless it's zero if you wait long enough.

 

I use 8,500 miles a month for an annual average for everything to work it okay. Under that I have to really tighten the budget. Over that is all gravy.

 

I was considering doing this as well; however, the insurance for a new authority is pretty expensive and would cut severely into the revenues you would generate. You may be able to break even depending how much time you are able to take off though. My fear also was that a lot of shippers are closed on the weekends so pickup would have to be a Friday and delivery would need to most likely be a Monday, then you would have to deadhead back to make it to work on Tuesday.

The route I am going is to activate my authority ~2-3 months before I plan on "hitting the road", to have my authority active for 90 days, so I don't look like a completely new operation. My thought is to have insurance minimums ($750K) for this period and up the coverage to what I am comfortable with as I am transitioning to this new venture.

 

There is no answer to your question. You need a set amount of revenue per day/month/year to cover your expenses. How many miles this takes is anyone's guess. One person may cover their monthly expenses in a 500 mile run. Another may need 5,000 miles to cover their monthly expenses. This is like rates, no two are alike and everyone is all over the place.

 

You are kidding, right?

This isn't part time work. This is a business that needs to be attended to in order for you to be anything close to successful.

Don't take this personal but we have enough crap owners with crap trucks running around on shoe string budgets and it is why we need to eliminate a lot of these crap authorities with means testing.