Mileage Rates for Flatbed

Farming is easy when your plow is a pencil and your desk is a 1000 miles from a cornfield.
How do plan on paying a driver for more miles with less money?

 

Older equipment only makes sense to me if you can do your own wrenching. I can change all those brake parts myself cheaper than I can have a shop put pads on a newer truck.

I will lose a day or two of productivity ether way. It's not like if I take it to a dealer I will spend my time in Tahiti or something? I may as well be getting close and personal with my truck?

Since I don't have a payment I CAN perform that work during a weekday when a guy with a big payment would likely be worried about how to cover the missed revenue. I don't even sweat it.

If however you don't or can't work on your own equipment new is the only way to go in my opinion.

 

Nah, it'll always bug me =)

Like @PeteyFixAll says, its going to cost you the same, any way you flip it.

 

Had to replace a pinion seal on my rear drive the other day. About an hour and 15 minutes plus price of the seal, my older no payments truck makes sense to me all the time. BUT..... I have ability to do 100% of my repairs, If I had limited ability I guess a newer truck with warranty would be my avenue? Stay safe out there.

 

Maybe your right. I honestly don't know. With repairs you just never know. With a payment you always know. It is easy to assume that a paid of truck would in a sense cost less on a month. There are months your not going to put money towards repairs. But many companies get rid of trucks after a few years and buy new ones. Maybe because of repairs and maintenance or deprecation for tax purposes. I am too new in this game to know which is the smarter way to own and run your truck. I bought a used one since I cannot afford a new one with warranty. I appreciate the feedback and another way to really look at it.

 

The longer you are in this business the more people you will come in contact with. You will come across brokers looking to use your trucks all the time. Calling you and asking if you have any trucks in his area. Yet his rates dont match what you can get from other brokers doing easier loads. I've learned to just make nice with them and tell them you will call when in the area.

I've strung a broker like that a long for the better part of a yr and never did any more loads for him. Yet through conversation and making nice with him,. he put me in contact with some other brokers who had shippers with better rates going to lanes where I had another broker with good paying loads. So never dismiss anyone or anything,.. you never know when an opportunity can pop up.

To me its like shopping around in a new neighborhood. Eventually you get to know your neighbors,.. who to stay away from and who has that nice boat that will take you fishing out in the gulf.

Pick and choose your friends wisely.

Hurst

 

Well that's a good thing, more miles and more wear and tear on the truck for less money = more money for the driver? Hope you can stay in that lower price fuel
Operating area, I have a feeling it's going to go up. Truly wish the best for us all.