My future

3.00 a mile use to be more common than it is now, but I have hopes that rates will come back up to 2006 levels again soon.
Having your own trailer helps allot, and your own authority helps more in what you can make.
The last company I was working for had several owner OPs working with them. They were dispatched just like the company trucks, but under there authority. Basically the company just treated it like a brokered load. Owners got 92% of the billed rate plus 100% of any fuel surcharge.
To put that into perspective. I was a company driver working for them taking home 800-1400 a week. I was only paid 20%, and I was home every weekend and normally a night or two during the week. (flatbed btw)
So the owner OPs were doing very well. Several of the OO trucks were owned by retired drivers with hired drivers in them.

 

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Best of Luck!!

 

i hate to lay it on you hard...........but i'm laying it on you hard.

Any A-hole or B can buy a truck. The real question is can you fix it?

2) Just the fact that you've bought a truck first and then are asking about "which company is good." "if i have my own trailer will a company pay more than $1.16" and " if i have authority, can i get $3 or $4 a mile" (if you have authority, you set your own rates, honey) means i don't think you quite know what you're doing.


If you can't fix a truck, you got no business owning a truck. i'm not saying you got to be able to take an engine completely apart, machine it, and put it back together, but you pretty much got to understand everything mechanically on the truck.

If you don't know the numbers (and it's clearly demonstrated that you don't), then forget about owning a truck (for now).

 

now latoya having your own truck is a good thing but what you get paid for fright is largly up to you. freight for a 1.16 a mile is hardly worth hauling i just do not do it period.
now you will find that a lot out here if not most have there there own way of doing things and if your hauling for a broker and he offers that kind of money i promoise you he is making more then that you need to find another broker.

contrary to popular belief i dont haul for buck a mile freight , i just
dont do it period and of you don't haul it you wont have to stop it .

check around and find an honest broker to start with and that will help you a lot.

best if luck southernpride