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Would he need to have arrived at the shipper before his 16 hour window closes during which he does a 3:15 sleeper? Does the new shift begin at end of 3:15 or the later 6:45 sleeper periods? Where is the new calculation point for the 13/14/16 in such scenario?

 

1.35 cents per mile is a grossly undervalued rate. You are likely in deficit with this rate. The average diesel fuel price was in the $1/litre range in 2016. Unless, a fuel card provided by the large carrier is being used, it is insufficient to cover all costs with a rate such as that. 2016 was also a year in which the USD-CAD exchange rate was at 1:1.34.

 

If you are running trucks profitably and can run that one profitably, then put it on the road. If you are going to put it on the road for the $37 per hour or whatever it was previously and pay someone to drive it... you are losing money every hour it is "working" and you would be further ahead to cut your losses and just sell it.

You want to make money in the Toronto area locally with dry vans? If you have maybe 3 or 4 of them, preferably tri-axles... there is lots of work locally, but often they require drop trailers for 24-48 hours. They only want to pay $300-400 per load, but there is hardly any miles to do it and you are in your own bed every night. You can bang off 3 or 4 per day. The caveat is you need to be able to leave your trailers here and there. I have been turning down tons of this work. I am not near Toronto and the idea of leaving equipment scattered here and there isn't really my idea of how to do trucking. I am paranoid of theft, especially in the larger cities. If you have some older vans and an old truck, you could make a go of it.

 

It's all local to Toronto.... they are all flat rate and you drop your trailer at the delivery for 24-48 hours. The load board is a good place to look. If you twig on to one of these operations there is plenty of work...

 

10 days????? Heck with that. No wonder nfi spams the heck out of those loads.
Well, back to the drawing board..