Owner Operators and Multiple Drops

I have a question for the Owner Operators out there. How are you paid for drops? Let's say your leased on at a percentage ONLY...Not paid per mile. Are most of you also paid for Multiple Drops or are you paid on gross percentage regardless of how many drops are scheduled on a load? Thank you in advance for the feedback!

 

If you are on a percentage, the drops are calculated into the rate so you get your percentage of the load. If on a mileage contract, then there is usually a provision for additional pay for drops. It all depends on what the lease contract calls for.

 

Thanks Freddy57 I appreciate that.

 

Depends on the load some pay more sometimes its just iN. The rate

 

If it's brokered depends on how you work it out with the broker. You can agree to $1,500 all in rate on a load with 4 extra stops or you could have them make a confirm for $1,300 linehaul plus $200 for extra stops. For simplicity sake I always get flat all in rates even though i can collect 100% stopoff pay.

 

Many times multiple stops are in fact multiple loads. The Broker gets paid for multiple loads while the Driver gets paid for one load plus milage and stops.

 

On a good percentage plan, most get paid 100% of FSC, stops, and what have you. Then the carriers percent is taken from the line haul only. So it would make sense to keep as much of your rate as possible by separating out FSC, stops, and whatever else.

 

If you're talking about typical "take 10% + or - companies" that haul loadboard freight there is no surcharge on spot freight. It's rolled into a flat rate. Now you could have them break one out no problem. My rates are over the top for what I do and I've never nitpicked over that stuff considering in a busy year they might make $18,000 off my truck. Aside from what's booked by me they will toss some really good freight my way a few times a year, any one of which more than makes up for what i never broke out as surcharge. We can collect a surcharge on 3PL freight as long as it's at or below tariff. I'm not always at tariff and never below it. That's how the 3PL pays out on it they do break it out. A good company leaves you the hell alone and lets you run your truck as you see fit. Surcharge has never been anything I'd consider a factor at all of what makes or breaks any company but everyone looks at things different.

 

Nope, I was referring to companies that have their own freight, such as a Landstar, CRST Malone, ect... Some of those companies allow you to book a load off a board like ITS if needed. In that case you would separate out everything to keep as much as possible, FSC would be calculated by miles of trip X whatever their FCS rate is, stops as 100% to you, then percentage out of line haul.

 

Hauling steel we got paid percentage and was rated by the hundredweight. It was rated to the furthest point. The extra drops were 100 each to the truck if they were on the way more if they weren't. It was a good deal when you unloaded most of the load at the first stops and ran nearly empty to the last ones.