I did it! $2.50 per odometer mile for 2013

Dats what I'm talking about. When I retire, I'm buying a truck and leaving it stationary until the price is up to specs

 

I was trying to capitalize on it. Maybe it can still be salvaged.

A CRE truck is trying to back in next to you. OUCH!

See what I did there?

 

Counting the DH miles Landstar must have made over $1/mi offern you 40 cal.

Congrats anyway.

I'm way behind in my bookeeping. Trying to make room to set up a new desk I bought to get me in the mood!

 

Wow that's very good. I'm thoroughly impressed by that!!! Is you're entire fleet flatbeds or do you have a mix of van reefer flat or what kind of work do you do? I see youre from the east coast you just run the eastern seaboard or Cali or what lanes are you running? I noticed in a later post you talked about that 1.50/mile freight I've seen a lot of that headed back west also what you have to haul to make up for that 1.50/mile freight. You have me curious now that's a very good running mile average its good to hear drivers can still put that together.

 

WHOA fortycal--I have been following many of your replies and WAS starting to gain some pretty good respect for you--and you go posting something like this? That would be a really BAD idea--even if someone like moi was available(IM NOT-LOL)
Would you like me to run buy on my next trip down--and give you a real hard SMACK upside the head--just to knock you back to reality?

 

OK, I have been crunching numbers for over a week and look at it different ways. When you have a fleet the averages can be misleading. When you have drivers like Rollin that pull the $2.50 range pulling a van that can skew the numbers. Or when you have drivers that just want to run FL and are happy making $1.50 that can draw it down.

But when I take everyone (not counting my flats) including the drivers I released. All revenue, all miles we ave $1.893/mile TTT on over 1.7 million miles. When I look at the drivers that where with me all year it was just under $2.

On the new dedicated fleet that is run under a different authority, 3-month average is just over $1.80 but that fleet gets a $.30-$.40/gal fuel discount, plates and is full dispatch so I would put that on par with my F2F fleet.

Here is an interesting fact that has nothing to do with pay and rates. Or maybe it does. Before I ran the numbers we evaluated all of our drivers in terms of on-time performance, communication, getting paperwork in, using technology, etc. Mostly subjective. The lowest earners on a per mile rank lowest in most areas. And I'm not speaking out of school because I have communicated this with the drivers that are still here and working on a plan to help them out.

Again, these are all dry van numbers.

 

BTW, great work 40