How much $ does Owner Op make in seasonal season?

I dont pull maters. But the question has too many variables to give a reasonable answer. A driver running legal will make way different than one not. A market flooded with trucks will make a huge difference. A bad growing season will be worse than a good one. Etc.

And if you don't get an answer, your less likely to do it. Therefore, less competition.

 

Not much from what I saw with the trucks running tomatoes in Ontario, their wagons looked like they were held together by bailing wire.

 

The tomato wagons around where I live are usually owned by the grower and he hires trucks to haul them. They keep the tomato wagons seemingly forever. That's all they do, the rest of the year they collect dust.

There is an abundance of drivers competing for those jobs hauling those tomato wagons. The rates don't justify doing it....to me. The drivers are paid hourly and home daily, don't leave Canada so no border b.s. or elog to deal with. = everyone wants to do it. So the driver wage is low. And the same story for the trucks. Keep them forever just ride around locally with them.

Similar to container work.

 

Yeah I know, I have a cousin who has a tomato farm just outside Leamington, he has some trucks but when I saw him last time I sort of pissed him off saying his trucks were kept together by baling wire.

One thing I miss with this post 9/11 crap is going over there and coming back with a few bushels of Tomatoes for sauce.

 

Are you asking about hauling tomatos in California?

 

You have to ask them what their rate per ton is, what tgeir percentage is, & then figure out how many tons you can haul. We can’t give you an answer. Every farm is going to pay different.

 

You'll usually get at least 25 tons on a set of trailers. The rate depends on how far it is from whatever field you're in to whatever cannery you're going to. In otherwords, they can't really quote you a rate since the rate changes constantly.
The only thing you can do is ask your dispatcher on each load what the rate is. They may not tell you. I hear a lot of bad stories about tomato haulers getting rooked and hauling for almost nothing.
If your company is running their own trucks they'll probably keep the company trucks on the good paying hauls and give you the leftovers.
If you're picking up loaded trailers, dropping them at a cannery and taking empties right back out you might be okay. But if you have to wait on either end it shoots your profit down to nothing.
Sorry for the bad news but you'd be better off driving a company truck than competing against them.