flatbed

Yes...if thats your final average on your paycheck after all types of loads and miles driven are accounted for...thats horrible. If you dont average at least 44 cents for flatbed Id look elsewhere.

 

On the west coast. 40 cents is practically unheard of.

 

That's sucks. It might be because flatbed rates are pretty low on the west coast versus the rest of the nation.
http://www.dat.com/resources/trendlines/flatbed/national-rates
Generally Ive seen flatbed companies offer a base of say 40 cents/mile, but then may pay 48 cents for over dimentional loads, maybe 50 cents for hazmat...or something like that, so that at the end of the week when all your miles are added up you divide your gross by the miles driven and you should average somewhere in the 42 to 44 cents (or more hopefully) range.
I dont see how anybody could make a living doing flatbed at below 40 cents. But flatbed rates are pretty low on the west coast so maybe thats why.

 

Also...its true because when I do deliver out to the west coast (which is very rarely), the load that is delivering out there from say the east coast or central U.S. will usually pay very good, but then getting a load out of the west will usually pay horrible.

 

You guys on the east make more. And your housing is one third the cost.

 

Hear that @Ruthless you got it good with all that cheap east coast housing.

 

Oh word?
600 sq ft condo: $178.5k, $2,850 a year in property tax, $278 a month in common charges, plus heat($111 a month x12 under contract) plus electric($38 in fees for getting electric before you have any usage) plus water($85 a month) plus sewer($87.50 a month). Guess that's cheap. Must be I'm just broke as ####.

But the single bedroom fits a queen size bed and a dresser comfortably tho... Gotta #### near drop trough and back into the bathroom however. Good thing I'm a trucker

Cheapest place I could find when I bought it. Glad I live somewhere so cheap. Hate to think what it'd cost somewhere else with high cost of living. I live pretty well out in the suburbs here.

My neighbor is selling a 467 sq ft model with all the same amenitie$ for $147k "because of the recession I had to start that low" according to what he told me yesterday. "I'm gonna lose my ####ing ### man" was his follow up. He's lived there since 2001.

I'll get a phone number for anybody that wants in.

 

Must be in new York city.

A lot of you have been bragging about $75,000 houses.

 

https://www.elliman.com/new-york-city/432-park-avenue-ph95-manhattan-bamsgsz

THAT is New York City. I only looked up NYC real estate/condo- I didn't look for anything I found to be above the norm.

Best advice I ever got was:
if you don't know- keep your mouth closed. You keep it open, and everybody else will know it too.

 

Dad got $85,000 out of his house. When he moved here.

2500 sq. Feet and 5 acres.