Minimum Rate you you haul for???

i think perhaps i see how ya got your forum name.

 

Livestock is roundtrip work, and dragging that big aluminum parachute down the road at 80mph has your fuel cost per mile up between .90 to 1 per mile. You better be getting at least $3.30 to break even! Then add more if you want some profit for your time, effort, and capital risk. I'd probably want more than a straight $0.35/mi for those three things. At $4, that's about where you stand. Truck it up, bullwagon! BOOP! BOOP!

 

Actually, I get 5mpg average. With fuel costing roughly 3.70 where I fuel that makes my fuel cost per mile at 74 cents. I pay myself $1.00 per mile. Everything else goes to the truck and I do very very well for myself. Keep hauling ur freight at 60 MPH trying to make money while I get out there and get back to get another...

 

So, companies with hundreds of trucks calculate 1.10 plus driver's pay but you say 1,25 is ok?! After driving 3000 m, you will pocket 450 bucks.

 

Wonder how many would hold out for $2 freight in Kalispell

 

Not me, but I wouldn't go up there expecting to do anything other than bounce out empty.

 

Not me either!! Dead head 700 miles. But I also don't go up there for less than 3.00,
at the end of the cycle it still avg A little less than 2.00 a mile door to door but probaly drove empty for 900 miles, on a 4000 mile trip.

 

I bid it with a 200 mile bounce out......


And still went in and out for over $2/mile.

 

Did you get a re-load?