Picking my own freight baby! My journey to & of being on Schneider choice, the Adventure & Numbers!

Whether %pay or flat rate or whoever you want to term it, compensation breaks down to dollars milage

Another option is to move on to more profitability. Why sit around chasing low rates in hopes that they'll maybe improve while under the delusion that you're running your business your way contracted on to SNI. Good load rates do pop up often, albeit, snatched for company trucks.

 

ROFLMAO

 

No ... compensation is compensation. Mileage has nothing to do with it. Mileage is nothing more than a metric for measuring a load's efficiency/profitability. Doesn't matter whose mileage you use, SNI's, hub, practical, gps or Googles, as long as you use the same methodology.

And before you go off on the "well the customers pay by mile", no they don't. They pay by lane and every lane has it's own rate based on market demand. Miles only comes into play for FSC on contract freight ... and that methodology for mileage calculation is negotiable - shippers want the shortest and carriers want the longest.

 

If you're thinking about the IRS mileage rate. That's not in addition to your truck cost - payment/fuel/maintenance - it's instead of. And it's only $.54 per mile ... but, it doesn't apply to heavy commercial vehicles anyway.

 

No you can not. When you claim expenses such as fuel, truck payment, etc, you can't claim miles as well. That's double dipping.
Unless you get paid by the mile, everybody incurs deadhead miles. There's no way not to unless you reloaded and unloaded at the same two places every time. Who does that?

 

Then don't use them. I don't see what the problem is here.

 

Nope you're dead on. You always claim operating expenses because it comes out more than claiming miles.

 

What is your point? Obviously the further the MT miles are the less the "overall" rate is going to be. This isn't rocket science yet you're trying to turn it into such. What's your complaint? If you don't like the deadhead go work for somebody that pays deadhead. Jeez dude. We get you're miserable. Why stay?

 

@freightwipper how are things going on your end? I know things are pretty rough with all that happened at home.

 

Didn't stay...I suppose you missed that part. Run your truck, I'll manage mine which is doing much better now. My methodologies legally work for my operation. BTW, there are many who are still ICs whom are miserable. I don't need to get the last word in, nor need to win... Therefore, my last comment on the topic. Happy trails - enjoy the SNI micromanaged abuse dude!