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spyder7723 said: ↑

Those of us advocating bouncing 500 miles are working under the idea that we got enough going in that after a 500 bounce we are still averaging good coin, far far above a buck a mile.
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In addition to the load you bounce to has enough in it to help reduce and or pay for enough of the dh cost

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maybe stay away from posting what might have been, what could have been and just plain what wasn't.

you're gonna get ragged on regardless, might as well stop taking the bait.

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Spend 100 tohave opportunity to make 2500, all day everyday.

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freightwipper said: ↑

Yes you did miss something.
Thought I explained fairly clear but I guess not.

First of all i have no idea where you got the idea that I will have a $7k week. I was a little over $7k yesterday with like 4-5 hours left of driving time for the day.
For me to end the week at $7k that would have meant sitting rest of the day yesterday, sitting today and then sitting tomorrow. Nowhere have I said I'm going to sit the rest of the week so I don't know where you got that from.

As far as those loads go at a moment I had the opinion of booking a load going into the Northeast, a load leaving the Northeast (.80 load) and a load going to Iowa. The .80 load would have brought me exactly to the load leaving going to Iowa that paid good.
If I did those loads I have have been a little over $10k for the week on Monday with a live unload at noon.
I was ready to book them, started pulling all three loads but the .80 load got taken and there was no other option leaving the Northeast unless deadheading 500+ miles soooo I decided against booking the other two loads. In other words I did not go to the Northeast.
A lot of people here think deadheading 500+ miles out of the Northeast is a great idea, way I look at it is even if I got $2 going in and had to deadhead 500+ miles leaving then all in all that trip would have me at running at $1 a mile all miles.. probably a little less before doing the Iowa load.
$1 a mile all miles going in and out of the Northeast might some awesome to some but it does not for me.
If I wanted to run for $1 all miles (which I don't) there sure are a lot better ways of doing so rather than going to the freaking northeast.
Soo I figured I would do something else and now today we are.
That's pretty much how all that went down.
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See I did miss something, sorry. I was thinking the three runs would make up the bulk of the $10k (well two really).

Also anyone that knows me knows I hate DH. I wasn't advocating it. I figure DH into every run before I'll book it. With me having the facts now it seems you made the wise move.

Continue on FW. I'm sorry for the interruption.

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MACK E-6 said: ↑

Let's not bring that discussion here. We already have several threads running on it.
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I go place where people consider dead holes all the time. I just make sure i get paid good to go in. If i found okey load i take it if not not i go dead head where ever i can get good load no matter how far. And i pull dry van in spot market.

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duddie said: ↑

500 miles@10 mpg is $100... Yea I'll dh out
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It costs way way more than that. First you need to add in wear and tear, Second since we have limited hours we can work you have to assume you are not making any revenue while driving those 9 hours. (Grant it with a team you can operate 24 hours a day).

Be Safe Out There

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driverdriver said: ↑

In addition to the load you bounce to has enough in it to help reduce and or pay for enough of the dh cost
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Adding 500 miles to pretty much any load kills the rate. No way around that.

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TennMan said: ↑

Spend 100 tohave opportunity to make 2500, all day everyday.
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If you take an 80 cent load 500 miles to get to the next load say paying 2/mile for 1250 miles, you have 2900 total revenue or 1.66/mile. If you DH 500 miles to get to that $2 load, you have 2500 total revenue or 1.43/mile. I'll never understand running for free when you can generate revenue, even a little bit, and get to the same place.

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tax said: ↑

I go place where people consider dead holes all the time. I just make sure i get paid good to go in. If i found okey load i take it if not not i go dead head where ever i can get good load no matter how far. And i pull dry van in spot market.
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Do you add those DH miles to your next load to determine what your rate really is or do you just ignore it? To what you really made per mile in a month, you should write down your starting odometer and ending at the end of the month and divide by total revenue. Is everybody else just ignoring the DH miles?

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