flatbed freight areas

CLI wants more experience than i have. I tried.

 

It's not really banking, that mileage gives me a baseline. At 2k miles per week I know I need this much per mile, if over 2k miles per week the cost per mile goes down, if under 2k miles per week the cost goes up. Just saying $1.30/mile is break even is incorrect if I only do 1k miles in a week. That number will be much higher.

My cousin has her masters in accounting. She has been doing my business accounting for years and she has a few 0/0 drivers she plans for so I should be covered for accounting.

 

You need to figure fuel in there somewhere and fuel cost is based on miles driven. (pulling numbers out of my butt) if a load pays $2,000, you get 75% of that load it pays you $1,500. Will you take that load not knowing how many miles it is? If that load is 800 miles with a 200 mile deadhead that load turns into a $1.50/mile load, knowing your costs average out to $1.30/mile you will profit $.20/mile, not a very good load. I don't see how you can figure this easily without taking mileage into account somewhere. Then you gotta figure in delivery time, if this is a 1,000 mile load with a 4 day delivery time that leaves you 3 days in the week to make up for the bad load.

Not saying your way is wrong, or right, just different. You can probably look at a load and in your head know if it's a good load. That comes with experience. Without experience a person needs a different way to figure a loads value to them. Everyone will have their own way of doing things and what works right for some may not work for others. But knowing different ways to do something will make a person more flexible in the long run so while I may not think something is best for me, that doesn't mean I don't want to know it. Knowledge is power.