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I pay the driver .36/mile, but my average bookings are about $1.80/mile. As I've been saying throughout this post, it's all about the route and your strategy. You don't go into a place that you can't get out of and if you do, you need to make your rate calculation not only to that place, but also to the next destination.
I know from personal experience that booking the loads while on the road can be very difficult. Often you end up sitting while looking for the next load, thus missing valuable time on the road. This is why most O/Os are signed up with a broker.

 

There's folks out there that would say 2-2.50 per mile is cheap, those people would look at you as part of the problem, just syain'.

 

I don't haul cheap freight but I also won't sit and wait for 3 days for a "perfect" load. If I don't find something by day's end, I am putting her in the wind to a better area.

I only run southeast, so the worst areas I can think of recently are Morehead City, NC (I deadheaded to Columbia, SC) and Bristol, TN (I deadheaded to Knoxville or Chattanooga). Those have been the 2 worst areas I have been to in a while.

 

Having the guts to run out of an area empty is what allows you to avoid cheap freight and increase you average CPM.

I have done it both ways and was quite surprised how much better I did by demanding better rates per mile and running more deadhead. Not only did I make as much or more but I quit making shippers and brokers money on loads that didn't make me any money.

I don't care how someone justifies hauling cheap freight there is no excuse for it!

 

checking out load boards i came across few landstars and would like to know if they are all in some way related.
Here they are: Landstar, Landstar Logistics, Landstar Express America...
All of them seem to be at same Jacksonville, FL building.

 

never mind, they are all under same umbrella

 

"Free market means you have a choice of routes, choice of loads and choice of prices"


It's not "Free Market" It all started when the government deregultated transportaion, when the ICC was in charge there was real money to be made in this industry...