How Much would you charge for this load??

Ok I took a call this morning from someone who has been reading on this site about rates. I won’t get into who it is or why they are reading threads about rates other than this issue. She knows I am posting about this.

The lady has a 53 foot trailer lightly loaded with car parts (approximately 9000lbs) and other items that need to be moved from a warehouse in Detroit to someone who bought out the entire warehouse’s stock of parts. She runs a small charity that was given the contents of the warehouse and has sold off most of the items, including the machinery and parts.

The trailer is in Detroit a little over one mile from an entrance to I-94 and it has to go on the west side of Ann Arbor off of m14, a total distance of 59 miles.

After giving her a quote of $324 flat for the move, and she lost her mind.

“That is $5.50 a mile” she screamed (well sort of) how people are doing this for $2 a mile, which she expected to do.

i had to explain to her what it will take for a driver to take it, the inspection of the trailer, making sure the product is secured, the hook up (the trailer is in a very bad angle and will take an experienced driver to get the truck hooked up) and so on.

I also said because she is a charity, she is getting a huge discount for the move. I would change $800 for a move like this but she is a charity. I further explained to her that this will tie up a truck half a day, so I will pay the driver a full days wages as if he/she was making a 300 mile run and make zero on it.

so here is my question, what would you guys charge for this?

 

Ok I’m done with this crap, get over it.