O/O Pay

It's about 95% drop & hook. I try to run the least amount of miles I can, usually between 8500-10000 miles a month. The amount of time I spend on the road varies. Just depends on what I've got going on & how long I want to stay out.

 

Define sucessful.

 

But these companies pay rookies under 35k "use em and abuse em". They dont pay good wages, so they can afford to run cheap freight. Which in turn hurts every freight business on the road. IMO

They run good ads promising miles/wages that they rarely deliver. I know this for a fact, it's hard to get decent wages when you have less than a year OTR time. So we take our beating, get the needed experience and move on.

 

If you were worth the amount of money the Moyes family is worth, you would be considered a business success.

 

I read somewhere that most of the big companies get such a good deal on new trucks that they can run them a couple of years and sell the used truck for almost as much as they paid for it. They get fuel dirt cheap too. As a O/O it's hard to compete with them.

 

As an O/O I don't compete for cheap loads the Megas run. They can run all the 40K freight all day.....I'll stick with light loads (under 25K) that run the SHORTEST amount of miles. If I can book a load that delivers across street I'll take it every time (if it pays good)

 

I spoke with a sales rep from Kenworth, he told me Swift buys around 140 brand new trucks a year and they constantly swap them out before the warranty is up.

 

You have to start somewhere and because the liability of a new driver is high, the compensation is fair. $35k is still better than $15k at a fast food place. I think the problem is that people expect something for nothing. They are told what to pick up! Where to go and how to do it, a lot of hand holding so that seems to be a fair wage.

Oh by the way it gets tiring about the cheap freight crap. It isn't those large high volume companies pulling the rates down, it's the uneducated owners and fleets who use load boards that try to capture freight by bidding low and just hoping to get work. Want to see rates go up?

Make getting an authority hard again, they will go up.

 

You really believe they became successful running 1.25 loads? I'm speechless.