Heavy haul trucks underpaid !

I promise you my truck won’t be leaving the yard for rates like that
As others have suggested skip the brokers
Talk to construction companies auction company and equipment dealers
If you come across as confident and actually have some experience to back it up you should be fine
Make sure to show up when you say you are going to and if you don’t know how to run the equipment ask instead of tearing it up.
Good luck

 

Sometimes I'll get curious and look at what's posted on the boards. 12' wide, 100k, going to the the port for $5k? That's not much more than my rate to go to that ####hole with a legal load.

 

If someone is dumb enough to haul it for that low price ,
I used to run empty back to where I could get good paying loads even though there were low paying loads going there . Screw them , I wouldn’t haul it just to break even , I’d rather go back empty at a loss than haul cheap freight

 

You don’t go anywhere at a loss if the truck is paid back to the yard before it leaves. Lots of times I find my own jeep and booster are the best paying load out of wherever it was anyway.

 

Very true

only folks I know that do heavy haul get $8-10 a loaded mile for the 6 axle stuff and a lot more for the 13 axle stuff or they don’t crank the truck . And they never use brokers . They find the loads direct.

 

I had ink on a contract before I bought my 2+3+2 set. Even then, the way the initial cash outlay and debt service on that purchase ####ed my finances up for a couple of years, a single truck operator would have to be out of their mind to buy something like that with no work for it. Or work it for broker rates.