How to bid and value freight

Does this attachment mean that there are 85 loads for every truck out of AL?

 

Am i reading this attachment right?

 

Cheap ### lumber loads

 

Sorry that is the wrong attachment it is showing % of coverage not the "loads against 1 truck" let me dig down the other one and will post it.

 

Ok, Markevonnie, Rolling Coal and others pointed out, most of us, ME #1 guilty of sin, don't have much idea of the real cost of operating as independents o/os. Thanks to this forum I took to figure out my real expenses on a monthly, weekly, and per mile cost. No, coffee is not included... and as a single operator I need to produce based on 2500 weekly miles.

Monthly $ 18350.00
Weekly $ 4587.00
and...
CPM 1.84 cents !!!!

Results: I am barely breaking even !!!! Oh Sh.. !!!!!

Time to change attitude. Yes, coming from a fleet, I am, now WAS !!! of the mentality "if the wheels are rolling, I am making it"

WOW...!!! I am even ahamed to post it....

 

What is an average CPM for an o/os?

 

While the answer is just doing some math if you could get all the data the problem is it would be a meaningless number. There are so many variables that are in play that you need to be more specific (and even then I am not sure anyone will have a real number).

If you look at one region you have different types of equipment, different lanes, different demands based on time of year and different levels in the market. These are just a few examples.

 

All freight is cheap this week seems like so I guess they don't value it to high.
Summer is supposed to be the time of rate increases the ones I'm quoted are lower?
1.65-2.25 average most under 2.00
And nothing at all coming back.

 

My phone has been blowing up all week. I think it's the same story with a few of our other drivers. May was my absolutely best month last year and this year is looking the same. Although none of the good stuff we had last year is around which sucks. And overall volume is still way down, cite that Landstar broker thread, 30 loads post for the day, week, and weeks out? Last year it was 30-50 per day, for that day, and thru the night as well. It would be brutal out here,bloodbath, without a few reliable contacts, from my standpoint. But there sure have been plenty of nervous sounding brokers all week. Better get it while you can cause when July gets here it's crickets chirping for dry vans, unless you roll for free..

 

Flats/steps for my particular application paying less than 2 a mile which equals a dollar a mile with the bouncing I do.
I've had several calls today but all were less than 2.15 a mile and I's going to have to go 75-150 miles to pick up.
Had one good load I called about would have had me slightly over my gross.
This is the down side of being weight restricted by the equipment type I run.
maybe tomorrow packing stuff I sold online to mail out.