How do you figure the value of a load?

Thanks! Super helpful.

By rate in "rates on reloads", you mean price per mile? So you can expect a good price for moving freight out of Chicago vs. Florida?

 

Of course you can always count on reloads out of Chicago to pay much better than the ones out of Florida for most of the year on typical freight.

The rate is just the revenue it pays. It can be broken down many ways. Yes, everyone in this business is always talking about rate per mile. That kind of thinking ought to fall to the wayside with the EOBR mandate. But anyway that's how the math will get broken down.

But generally when you ask someone for a rate from say Chicago to Indianapolis they will give you a flat number like "$1,200 is my rate" but usually they don't say "my rate is $3.22 a mile" or whatever actual rate per mile it pencils out to.

 

The value? The pay rate? They are both discretionary.

 

I think, that by the value, it was meant how much to book it for. Not the cargo value itself.

 

Lol you said way way way too much here dude.

 

It's all in the bargaining. And how good you are at it.

 

Bargaining is at best 10% of it. When and where-to determine truck gross vastly more than talking to people on the phone.