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

Anything is possible. Just doing 60 today. Plenty of time to make delivery. I never said I liked going over 70....

 

Wow moosc, you know me sooooo well. Actually you don't. I have plenty of hours left on my 70.
I choose to take my 34 NOW so that next week I can run these two very profitable loads that I found on the load board. If I waited I could not do those two loads.
You see it's called being able to pick your own loads, make the money you want to make, and go to Florida and see my kids. I choose to do these things.
You choose to go where the man tells you to and to already make as much money as you can make here.
It's all about choice....
Now stop griping so much and hold that steering wheel tighter.

 

No. They're not HHG. Difference varies. Sometimes they're really close. Sometimes not.

 

Sitting here at the Pilot off of exit 6 on I-84 right outside of Newburgh, NY. Taking today off to recoup from running so hard the last two days. Way too many miles going way too fast. I'll take 34 hours off, but not sure I'll count it as a 34. Still have 22 hours I can run on my 70.

Tomorrow, Sunday, I have a load to pickup in Breinigsville, PA that I am taking to Wintersvile, Oh. 120 miles DH to Breinigsville and then 310 miles to Wintersville. Load is 42,000 lbs, which I would normally not take. Also does not pay a lot, $386.72 revenue, or about $.87 per mile. But I did it because........
On Monday I drive 65 miles DH to New Concord, OH to grab a load that is going 985 miles to Winter Haven, Fl. I really wanted this load because my kids live in Tampa, about 30 miles from Winter Haven. Haven't seen them in four months, will be nice. This load weighs 38,000 lbs but pays really well. Revenue of almost $2000 or about $1.97 per mile. Load picks up on the 10th and delivers on the 11th. Will probably take the 12th off to hang with the kids. So I might wait and take my 34 then.
Been busy today working on some stuff for ATBS. My rep called this week and we set up all my expenses and such for my profit and loss statement and for my profit plan. My break even point is .92 per mile. I actually look at NRPD, Net Revenue Per Day, when picking a load. It's all about NRPD, not the per mile rate. A load can pay over $2.00 per mile but if it takes 2 days to drive 700 miles to deliver it's usually better to pick other loads to make more per day. MY personal goal is to bring in $800 a day in revenue for every day that I work. I would like to make $4000 in revenue a week minimum. This week I will do $4600 in revenue to the truck working 6 total days driving. Monday's driving will go towards NEXT weeks check.
With flexible expenses of $1700 and fixed expenses of $1100 this week (first week with a truck payment) I should bring home $4600-$1700-$1100 = $1800 next Friday. Very happy with that number.
Hope this helps break some things down. I know a lot of you are looking at Choice and I know when I was looking I wished more people would put up numbers and settlement statements and such. As soon as I get some settlements that show everything I will put them up.
Again, these are my thoughts and comments. I choose to run my business this way. Everybody is different.

APU and truck have been running great (knock on wood).

Take care and stay safe.....

 

As of right this moment on the load board there are 40 loads available for pick up in the state of Florida.

The highest RPM (revenue per mile) is $2.31, the lowest is $.87.

The longest length is 1200 miles, the shortest is 239 miles.

Weight is all over the place, from 10K up to 43K.

Hope this helps....