February's numbers

Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by windsmith, Mar 1, 2013.

  1. windsmith

    windsmith Road Train Member

    7,296
    6,031
    Sep 2, 2011
    NEPA
    0
    Dry van:

    Total miles: 7582
    Loaded miles: 6704

    Revenue to the truck: $18173.00

    Total per-mile: $2.40
    Loaded per-mile: $2.71

    Loads: Total of 11
    Running days: 14
     
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  3. apyles

    apyles Medium Load Member

    449
    142
    Oct 21, 2011
    Newbern,Tn
    0
    Congrats, Pulling a Dry van those are some good numbers.
     
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  4. kw600

    kw600 Road Train Member

    1,172
    359
    Dec 9, 2011
    everywhere,usa
    0
    Are you leased onto a company? Or have you own authority? Solo? Either way good numbers; better than ours
     
  5. windsmith

    windsmith Road Train Member

    7,296
    6,031
    Sep 2, 2011
    NEPA
    0
    I'm a company driver; freight is mostly straight from the load board.

    I post in the O/O section because I pretty much have free reign over the operation of the truck. I'm paid 25% of gross to the truck, and I mostly book my own loads. This month the owner has had some free time away from his other businesses, so he's booked about half of the loads for me. Yes this is a solo truck, but we do have the option to team. Haven't found a team load with a worthwhile rate yet though.
     
  6. BoyWander

    BoyWander Road Train Member

    1,411
    2,125
    Jul 22, 2011
    Michigan
    0
    What areas do you run in? I can't imagine this is long haul. The loaded miles add up to 608mi per load.
    I am betting you run mostly southern states and carolinas, minus FL and TX.
     
  7. rollin coal

    rollin coal Road Train Member

    13,297
    26,861
    Mar 29, 2008
    TN
    0
    Very solid numbers on good miles, excellent numbers for the average length of haul windsmith. Check out these dry van numbers out - these are Jan & Feb totals:

    Before Bill's cut comes out: $23,613.00 on 7,427 "loaded only miles" or $3.179 gross per "loaded" mile
    also before his cut is out: +1,201 deadhead miles or 8,628 total miles is $2.736 all miles in gross rate

    13.9% deadhead with 24 loads hauled in 25 days of work out of 59 available days to possibly work. Avg length of haul 359.5 miles. Most of those 25 days I was at least by the house if not taking a break there. That should make many of the guys reading this question the way they operate if they're willing to run a cut throat fuel money rate just to get home, cause I never do.

    After his cut comes off the top numbers to my truck:

    $21,351 or $2.874 "loaded miles" only rate, all miles in rate $2.474 I burned $5,907.60 in fuel (that's pump price not counting discount or IFTA)

    Had a cut rate driver pick a great run off from me running it for 33% less than what they were happily paying me until he came along. That amounted to about a $12,000-$14,000 missed revenue opportunity over a 3 week period. Oh well, that's how spot market goes. Difficult to come by, easy go.... Looking ahead I'm optimistic though. I spent most of those off days watching loadboards looking for opportunity. Had a call out of the blue this past tuesday that landed me my first direct freight load, that was a sweet load. I get lazy on the regular runs and worry I'm losing my touch but then when I got that call Tuesday everything just fell into place and I quickly booked up 3 more loads to finish off a great week on 3 days of work... But freight is really slow. It'll get busy again, if it doesn;t I'll get by... What little I made for all the time I had off in this period is more than I would have made at the old company I was leased to running 2,800 miles a week 8 weeks straight for $1.50 loaded and 95 cents empty...
     
  8. Cowpie1

    Cowpie1 Road Train Member

    5,569
    4,651
    Nov 25, 2008
    Kellogg, IA
    0
    Ok. That explains why there was no Net numbers.
     
  9. windsmith

    windsmith Road Train Member

    7,296
    6,031
    Sep 2, 2011
    NEPA
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    This is my route for February:

    http://goo.gl/maps/WZq3M
     
  10. Big Jay

    Big Jay Light Load Member

    176
    176
    Jul 31, 2011
    litchfield, mn
    0
    Interesting stuff gentlemen. Educational to see what others are doing. Real world numbers like the one's posted require work and dedication to doing your job right and NOT spending time griping about why this broker or that broker has somehow mistreated you. Good job Guys!
     
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  11. windsmith

    windsmith Road Train Member

    7,296
    6,031
    Sep 2, 2011
    NEPA
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    Went through the fuel receipts for the month.

    MPG came in at 5.1
    Average price for fuel - $4.18/g
    Fuel cost: $6176.00

    Truck net after fuel and driver pay - $7444.00
     
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