Owner Operators should be treated fairly, and also they should be well compensated

Very true.Staying home works only for ''me''.It does not work as far as the ''big'' picture and stopping the madness of cheap freight.This only works for the way i do business..I may not work alot but when i do i am ''compensated'' very well...This week was a fine example of that......I made more in 3 days than most O/O's running CHEAP all week....I work smarter not harder...

 

Landstar8891 Sounds like you run like me a little over 4500 mile for feb but 2.00 to 4.87 a mile for those 4500 miles

 

I guess I am a old timer. The big difference is that before deregulation you had to prove need to get authority(shipper support) now anyone with cash can get authority. They start with no customers thinking load boards are the way to instant business, not realizing load boards or "the spot market" is actually the leftover market.

Shippers and 3PL,s give freight to their contracted carriers. The bigger carriers have spotted trailers and will take a set number of loads in different lanes every day at a contracted rate that is the same year round, then what they don't take is given to brokers.

My advice is if you want better freight you need to find a way to get in on the front end and quit chasing leftovers.

 

You must be talking about Landstar Left overs on there boards...ROLMAO..oh ####,the Landstar Patrol is going to come and get me now,i shouldn't of said that..

 

Thats what i try to do.Give or take a little.I am home alot and when i do run,i try to get paid well for my services.I refuse to run my health,truck and my life in the ground chasing cheap Landstar loads.Doing that only makes the Multi Million Dollar Landstar,RICHER..It is to bad we have to many Landstar Drivers that will haul this crap.It's the nature of the beast..

 

I think too many get into loadboard spot freight and don't know wth they are doing. There is very good money to be made in spot. Imo I think better than contract at least with a dry van. I did $4,000 gross revenue last week on 4 loads with 1,003 loaded miles, somewhere around 550 deadhead, need to figure the deadhead. Do contract dry van carriers swing averages like that consistently? That in a slow week. None of the freight I haul is garbage leftovers. It's rarely over 15k lbs and never on the truck much longer than 8-12 hours. That's loadboard freight does it sound bad to you? It's from networking also.. I find it on boards then do what I can to exploit and keep it off boards.. repeat business. It takes more than thinking in cents per mile to be successful with spot.

 

As far as OP is concerned. Respect and pay are earned, not given.

 

I am usually at the 8k miles a month range. my bottom break even to me is 20k. Well not break even but happy living for sure. Another month and things will go through the roof rate wise. So all will be good. Less miles more money. thats my motto

 

My truck

 

I thought it was about Brokers, I watch Load Boards, My Own, & it's fantastic! But I Own the truck.