First reefer load,help please haha

From what I've seen you can find above $1.20/mile if it's going to FL, TX or anywhere on the East Coast, and then $1.00 going back west

 

Hey fr8..thanks for posting your numbers...if you are happy thats really all that matters. Some people give great advice on here and some give advice but in a condescending way which there is no reason for it. For someone just breakin into workin load boards and running ur own truck I think your gettin a handle on it just fine and I highly doubt YOU are the reason freight rates are low in the industry...but hey keep chippin at this thing and i think youll get where u wanna be. Hell..I learn a few things from alot your posts ive read in past.

 

All I seen was garbage 1.40 a mile dry or reefer freight out of FL to the northeast. They could pay 2.50 a mile but MAYBE with a couple drops. Unfortunately, I got a straight load out of the FL panhandle to PA for 2.36 a mile.

 

The stuff that the dude I know hauls down here never hits the load board. He says he only uses the load board to get a load coming back to Florida after he run NE for two weeks.

 

I didn't know reefer had to be refrigerated. Guess you learn something every day.

 

OP, Actually I was wondering if you knew your break even rate to cover expenses per mile.

I won't haul under $1.76 (go/no-go)but average over $2 on all miles, loaded or empty.

Break even after driver pay and all expenses is $1.47 but company sees no PROFIT at that rate if it were to be hauled.(NOT GONNA HAPPEN)

Pursuing better rates and not hauling cheap freight does better for everyone in the long term. Not playing the FSC game is part of this.

Short sighted cheap freigh haulers damage the industry and have a failure rate that is atrocious.....but we all have to live with the mess they cause in their downward spiral.

Not an attack, I want to see you succeed!

 

A protect load at 70 is not much different than a dry van--now you are going to go to Jersey for $1.73? Really---which is every bit of 1.25 LESS than you should even consider---and what are you going to do outta Jersey--(unless you happen to have customer freight out there)where people are loading for well under a buck--just to get out?
Sorry doesn't make any sense in my world

 

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My thoughts on the matter is anything going to philly and north/east/northeast, should be well over 2.xx/mi. Depending on where you are coming from. You can guarantee money in tolls, providing you pay to use the turnpike, otherwise deal with the headache of fighting traffic to avoid the tolls. You have a SMALL window to accomplish a lot before traffic takes you 4 hours to go 30 miles.
My mentality on anything in the tri-state area better be 1,000 a day if you're doing short runs, gross obviously. However that isn't there, at least from what I hear through the grapevine. Now I run into the NE and enjoy it because the $$ is more than worth it. Really rewarding to get the extension into Boston.
Now I, like yourself, bought a reefer and am finally putting it to work. Spent the past year following the rates and our customer on the dry van side isn't receiving enough loads (partly because the slowdown in stores and I am a firm believer that some idiot is running into the NE for well under 1.75 and doing a terrible job [this I know from the stores calling us and asking why we aren't delivering]). The difference is I have no payments on the equipment and that gives a stronger bargaining tool.
I apologize if I came across as a jerk, but anything into the NE should be paying a premium because it's a one way market.

 

Years of reefer and I've only once had a lumper load and it was because it was dry freight that we just happened to pick up for a backhaul. Never a lumper when it's an actual reefer load.