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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gentleroger, post: 10085923, member: 43957&quot;]You are empty at a truck stop and just finsihed a 10 hour break.&nbsp; You are dispatched on Load A.&nbsp; Load A requires you to spot your trailer and then take a 10 at the customer, then run 300 miles straight to delivery.&nbsp; Not fun, but no big deal.&nbsp; You spend 3 hours in the dock and then are told to sit there another 9 so you have a fresh clock for load B.&nbsp; If you move now, you will not be able to get loads B done - same thing if you start in 7 hours.&nbsp; You do what you have to do, right?&nbsp; You figure after load b you can hit the truckstop.&nbsp; Nope, gotta start load C, but this one has a little time on it so you&#039;ll be able to get yourself sorted out.&nbsp; Midway thru load C you get called to swap loads - shut down now, wake up in 5 hours to switch trailers, then go running in another 5 hours.&nbsp; You technically have hours to do the repower, just like technically I have a chance to win the Powerball.&nbsp; Reality is that you won&#039;t make it on time.&nbsp; After you busted your tail, missing the on time delivery for the repower costs you your gauranteed pay.</p><p><br /></p><p>Start to see the issue?</p><p><br /></p><p>5 hours into your break</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p>If the load pays $2 a mile, and it is 2,000 miles it pays $4,000 gross.</p><p><br /></p><p>If one driver takes it and is paid 40 cpm KB&#039;s cost for driver pay is about $1,300 (taxes, benifits, etc).</p><p><br /></p><p>If 4 drivers are each paid 400 miles for that 2,000 miles load then driver pay only amounts to $1,040.&nbsp; Account for additional costs associated with repowering loads and KB nets at LEAST another $50 on the load, or roughly 1/2 of a percenatge point increase in profit.&nbsp; Using your 2-4% cap rate thats a 8-25% increase in their net.</p><p><br /></p><p>These are not realistic numbers - relaying out loads will not cut paid miles by 25%.&nbsp; Companies do however look to maximize tractor usage while still mininizing expenses.</p><p><br /></p><p>As a for example I picked up my go home load - delivered 5 .miles from the yard.&nbsp; I&#039;m going to be in on Friday afternoon, leave out Sunday morning, load can&#039;t deliver until Monday afternoon.&nbsp; I am told to relay the load 111 miles away, then dead head home.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; Because if I take the load home and relay it, the next driver gets $50 to deliver.&nbsp; If I relay it 111 miles away, the next driver gets $48.&nbsp; Odds are that we would be dead heading into the market anyway, might as well save the $2.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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