Minimum Rate you you haul for???

If you've got over a year or more driving, go talk to BigBadBill at Farm2Fleet.

I have been there since July and it's been a great experience. I would only lease on there I think or have my own authority. It's so laid back, it's like a rockin' chair.


You get out of it what you put into it.

 

You need to figure out your per mile operational cost and try like a SOB to get a least $1.00 per mile over it. If you get stuck somewhere.. string some shorter loads that pay better together in the direction you need to go to hit another longer/high paying load. Shorter loads for the most part have a higher per mile rate..but they eat up time.. work the black art of it as best you can.

 

That is exactly where this comes from.

Experience shows me I average about 500 miles per day over time.

My actual fixed overhead expenses (insurance, phone, salary, load boards etc) average out to about $400 per day for 19 days I am out. (that includes a profit in there too).

My variable (fuel and maintenance) expenses are about $0.88 per mile.

Put those all together and that's how I figure my rates.

 

Right On ...

 

It will be worth the wait... just make sure to give yourself about 6 months to learn the system and the boards/agents. I love it here at LS and glad I came back after I left in 2009. I am running a stepdeck now tho, back then i was pulling a van. From what I've seen in our area (Chicagoland) you should be able to do well with a van IF you stick to the midwest and don't go chasing some big $$ loads out of the area. that's when you'll get hurt. I've done a lot of research and you should be able to make $3,500 week before fuel and be home weeeknds running IN/IL/OH/MI/KY with a van trailer, if you work hard at it. Most local stuff pays about $2.50-$3 mile for under 250 miles, andsometimes better. Most guys hook up with an agent in their area that does frequent loads and just run for them. I have a freind near me that pulls for LS as well and he runs a van trailer. He loads everyday in IL and goes to Grand Rapids. Then unloads/reloads and goes back at $1,000 a turn. He does 4 a week and off FRI/SAT/SUN. Now that's a lucky run, but I've heard a lot of stories like that here at Landstar. Just have to prove yourself to a few agents and they will take care of ya.

 

Don't run for landstar I'm under my own authority thank god to hell with them EOBR's and qualcomm.

 

I usually wind up getting hosed on short runs too. My hat's off to the guys who are able to do it all the time. I always wind up losing whatever profit margin I had to deadheading or time. It's situational though, sometimes a little run works out great, especially if I have paper work to get caught up on or need to get the truck pm'd or something.