Need advice for line haul opportunity

Run far, run fast, don't look back. You'll get just under 80 cpm. I know team drivers making that who don't have to buy a truck and then pay for insurance, tires and maintenance.

 

$355 per day? Let's say you burned a tank of fuel per day, and call it about $300 in diesel. That means you make $655 per day. Did you really spend the time and money to get your own numbers, and your own equipment to turn around and make $655 per day?

 

The people offering you that job think you're a moron. Don't prove them right. That rate is insulting.

 

Too cheap! That is driver pay, you will never be able to afford to repair your truck!

 

Definitely too cheap. Even with them furnishing fuel. I am sure, if they furnish fuel, that will be with ‘strings attached’, such as you must have truck governed to a max of ‘X’ mph, no idling longer than ‘X’ number of minutes, truck must be no older than ‘X’ model years old. In other words, no running a 25 yr old large car w/8V92 opened up to triple digits.

 

That's part of the problem. You really need to know what it's going to cost you to run. Until you know what your expenses are it's hard to know if you're really making a profit or just turning dollars over.

 

Barring any major repairs you are looking at a bit over a dollar a mile including fuel. +/-

 

How often do you have to replace your brakes on a pickup? I’d imagine they don’t stop nearly as good as a class 8 truck and trailer.