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

Just imagine those stupid drivers on a .90 a mile flease only getting 1500 miles a week due to "lack of freight"!
Wooo buddy!

 

I average $1.70-$1.80s 2400-2800 all miles a week but i dont really push myself. I've been running those numbers for most of the time I've been here. Some weeks are higher but i dont count those cause it's not often.

Say I had a team driver and I paid him .55 a mile and in his driving I averaged him 2800 miles a week at $1.65 all miles.
Thats $900 in fuel $1,540 in driver pay.. would have to pay part of taxes for W2 right? Say $60 for the day to make it even.
That's $2,500 in cost leaving me roughly an extra $2,000 for the week by running the truck as a team.

I've been dispatching myself for 18 months now and have a pretty good idea the numbers I could pull off.
The time the truck is sitting or I'm sleeping it could be making money. Might as well get the most out of this $40,000 a year I'm paying for this truck lol. That's just the simple idea.
I never go home lol, no kids or wife, stay out weeks for a time so it could work.
Dunno if I'm going to do it... just pondering ideas now being I feel acquainted with the system here.
As with anything else.. is the extra hassle worth the extra money? That is the question I have for myself.
I asked same question when thinking about switching to flatbed and the answer was no, that's why I'm still here.

 

There is something but i dont remember.
I'm half way through my lease and have very few miles so I'm not worried about that.
If you buy the truck after the term it probably doesn't matter at all anyway.

 

Ummm if they did a lot if short loads and took a lot of time off lol