Choice program on the West Coast - from company driver to IC

oh....a couple of other things.......remember, your time is how you make your money. If you burn a day's worth of hours on a deadhead, that's another day you can't produce revenue.....essentially, you lost 2 days. Second, have you seen the weather in that part of the world??? I've seen snow exactly 3 days this winter......kinda why I'm doin' what I'm doin'.....

 

If your dead heading you are moving for free if you haul a crappy load at least your not moving for free. Those couple hundred extra bucks add up to thousands over a years time and could make a few trucks payments this year.

 

He did it right! If the load pays high enough per mile INCLUDING DEADHEAD then he is making good. If he spent a day with a heavy load out of Denver for .95 cents ..That sucks compared to bob-tailing (great fuel mileage that way) a day for $1.50 or more .. uhmm ... hell yay i would take it!

 

This is why I rarely try to help on this board. Good luck guys.........

 

How do figure moving it for free.. not if the load pays high enough. That is where people screw up they don't look at how it pays per mile Including deadhead miles.

 

I agree it's a lot of deadhead miles but he was in .. what i call the black hole for freight.. extreme situations sometime merit extreme action if it's worth it! I have done similar long deadhead mile runs when stuck up in North Dakota.

 

Not an idea situation to be in, but hes done the math and is coming out with a decent rate, and bobtailing is cheap compared to pulling even an empty trailer due to the very good MPG you can get. How you want to run all comes down to what it costs you per mile and what you want to bring home, obviously still making a good profit on this load so that's OK in my book. Very nice long $4200 gross run that leaves 3 more days in the pay period, paying $2/mile, 656 miles of which is running bobtail getting excellent MPG (again, at $2.00 per mile!), shoot man, why not?!

I'll tell ya why not... from my point of view, lol. Not because of the deadhead, but because of the chance that you show up to the shipper and the shipper says "sorry, we cancelled that load!!". Not knockin' ya at all, I'd just be scared to death that load would cancel LOL. THEN that deadhead would really hurt because you might be able to get the $150 out of Schneider for the cancelled load, but you spent roughly $300 in fuel on the bobtail deadhead.

But look, chances are everything will go fine, and you'll come out ahead with an awesome week. Look man, you run things the way YOU need to run things to be successful, regardless of how SOMEONE ELSE thinks that needs to be done. KEEP AT IT BUD.