is it worth it?

How is he going to pay fuel and maintainance? Did you read what he said ? he is using their Truck not his Truck and fuel.
Also, even if They give him 1099 I think its still worth and if He is making 3000 a week hey Whats wrong with paying tax? Because at the end of the week he is still comes out with a good profit.

 

Also, The last time that I did something like the owner was getting 300 per shuttle 40 miles round trip and I was averaging 10 round trips a day but It did NOT last more than two months.

 

I considered it myself, but it's 10 hours of drop and hook a day, never leaving the yard, potentially with doubles involved, all in a truck you don't know well, potentially a different truck every day.

Between cranking the landing gear all day, and the fact that it will be in a yard during a holiday slam with hundreds, if not thousands of other trucks per day running around trying to get their load down the road made it too much risk for me. I've only got 4 years experience, and have only bumped a dock with a dry van twice in the last two years. There was just too much potential for it to go sideways for me, to make what I'm already making on a weekly basis working fewer hours with less work.

However, if I did it, I'd drop my trailer off at the shop for some R&R and some bells and whistles, and pull a power only load down to the yard, and spend the whole duration at a local truck stop unless they were very generous with the weekend hours. A 10 hour day after a 400 mile commute sounds like a recipe for disaster. An 800 mile round trip for a day at home sounds like trash, too. I'd consider a hotel on weekends, but I don't see the sense in paying for a room I won't be in 12 hours or more a day.

 

Hmmm me smell something funny. 10 hours a day, 5 days a week. Truck GROSSES $4000 you get $3560 of it and use all his equipment and fuel? The truck gets $440 a week to cover its expenses?

If you had a driver, on YOUR truck, and the truck Grossed $4.00 a mile, would you pay the driver $3.56 per mile free and clear?

I think I need a BIG shovel.......

 

Lil Fred just because you don't get offered this kind of work doesn't mean it isn't out there!

Two years ago Hubby parked our truck and drove the Cessna Marketing display truck for six weeks , they paid for the fuel, they paid for a motel and and after F2F's cut we got 3500 a week so yeah it is out there you just have to look!

We got offered the same deal and will probably do it...I have another truck to cover my regular loads and they say a change is as good as a Holiday.

 

I need to check the forum more often. This was interesting to read. Everyone needs to remember the time of year. This is temporary peak work when certain companies do over 30% of their business in December so they need to make sure they have drivers. Funny thing about this because the truck never touches the streets you don't even need to have a CDL. Just have to back a trailer.

 

RC, I love seeing that photo from the olden days with you getting loaded at our first account. That was great money back then but we wouldn't touch that these days.

 

I realize that you turned it down, but I would be all over it if the logistics worked but I am not afraid of work.

It seems like zero risk money (and to me, zero risk money is always a good thing) but I wonder what would happen if you hit something? His insurance so no claim on you or do you get a a black mark on your loss run?