How difficult for a truck ?

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by Tétkontak, Jul 5, 2016.

  1. Tétkontak

    Tétkontak Light Load Member

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    Hi guys I'm new here . I'm trying to figured out how hard it is for a truck to make $7000 a week minimum $6000 of load the board?
     
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  3. Canned Spam

    Canned Spam Road Train Member

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    What do you want to haul?
     
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  4. Old school 362

    Old school 362 Medium Load Member

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    not easy making that.
     
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  5. Tétkontak

    Tétkontak Light Load Member

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    I'm looking at the reefer lane .
     
  6. Tétkontak

    Tétkontak Light Load Member

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    Whats the minimum on your opinion?
     
  7. STexan

    STexan Road Train Member

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    You willing to roll 15 hours a day, 6 days a week, and pretty sure you can find decent paying coast to coast freight without any delays in between? Rates, especially reefer, are up and down with various cycles, but currently the trucking industry seems to be over-trucked ... i.e. it's a shippers market, not a truckers market. If there were guarantees of good rates and ample freight, everybody would be doing it ... thereby voiding the previous sentence. Quite a Catch 22
     
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  8. Tétkontak

    Tétkontak Light Load Member

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    I understand . thansk for reply
     
  9. akfisher

    akfisher Road Train Member

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    Pulling general freight at this point in the economy you arent going to gross 7k a week. I do know a couple guys getting in the 6 range but hauling to Alaska so they are beating the #### out of their equiptment
     
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  10. Tétkontak

    Tétkontak Light Load Member

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  11. justa_driver

    justa_driver Road Train Member

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    Best way to figure it out is to go online, get some rates for different lanes you want to run, average them out, then figure out how many miles you plan to run a week then multiply the rate by the miles and that will give you a general idea as to what you can make gross. Thats if you are talking about running under your own authority. Good luck.
     
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