O/O what is your pay per mile, try to be honest.lol

That's right. It is useless to rely on any common sense or logic. In the end, it is always for them to decide. By common sense though, I think that odds are high to be put OOS when there is PC done right after 11 or 14 hours run out and someone keeps rolling more than 2-3 hours after This is exactly what those ambulance chasing lawyers are waiting for.

 

Going back to the rates... I see a nice spike right before the 4th of July here in the Midwest. Whoever wants to work next week should be nicely rewarded. This could be the moment for scalping.

 

Rates up here in the Detroit area were pretty weak, many plants and suppliers are down re tooling, or finishing up construction on new plants and facilities. Booming up here, I haven't seen this in years. Next week will be so so, but the following week we should be building up some steam to roll into fall. I have a feeling it is going to be a good year.

 

Interesting.

Landstar limits PC to 2 hours, but as I understood it that’s simply their requirement, otherwise you could drive the tanks dry if you wanted to, unladen and on your way home.

I rarely use it, ever. Guys here have been abusing it and scrutiny is up. I would regularly abuse it too, moving toward a load, and have the agent enter load information once I got to the shipper. Technically wrong and easily shot down.

Now I’ll drive to a load on duty the night before and sleep there. I did that Wednesday, used up my 14 and then switched to PC for the last hour home, just to sleep in my own bed.

I guess we diverted from the original topic - rates.

They’re disgusting right now. Worked Tuesday afternoon till midnight Wednesday, home to home - $2700 to the truck.

Work this coming Thursday, $3600 to the truck on about 500 miles all up, same deal, leave Wednesday be back Thursday.

Bouncing around close to $3/mile to the truck for the half year, $120k to the truck and around a 60/40 split profit/expense.

No real desire to run more loads than I am right now, enjoying being home more during the hot weather.

 

That's what I'm looking for. #### em. They all want trucks for nothing and talk about drivers like we're all dogs anyways.

I was reading on social media the other day "why should a truck cost any more on a holiday anyway? Trucks roll 24/7 that's trucking... This isn't in a regular job...." Yada, yada...

That's how you're looked at from the office types. You drive that F,ing truck and shut up! From the crisp white collar environment of their comfortable cool 70* eight hour office job.

haha haha... #### you. Triple or quadruple rate for you "buddy". I want to say thanks to Epes Logistics. Everything you said was as it ended up to be... Nice customer with a clean break room and facilities. Treated like an actual human. Fair and happy rate for everyone involv3d... Now for you 3 letter mega ####s and your cold customers, bend over, hahahaha!!!!

 

I have an average of 1.81 for every mile I have put on my truck since the first of the year. This includes a whole bunch of long deadheads to get home to preach on Sundays. If I didn't have the long deadheads my average would be considerably more than $2 per mile. I mainly hang around the midwest, I did a few trips out west during the winter months but other than that it has been midwest miles.

 

Are you leased on to someone or have your own authority?

 

I operate on my own with a dry van.

 

Nothing wrong with that, and I’m the same - the $/mile figure would look better if I had less empty miles.

But like you I’m sure, why hang around till Monday when you’ve got things to do at home, and wheels to get there.

 

those 500+ dhs home sure do cut the mileage rate down. Still do it tho. Its spend 200 to 300 bucks in fuel to be home Friday evening. Or run the generator all weekend at .5 gallons per hour for 50+ hours, that's 75 bucks by itself plus whatever extra i spend while sitting around all weekend.