power only load ?s

power only/intermodal loads

 

try sending business cards to trailer dealers and such and see what happens. Ive done it and have found its a good deal going to get a trailer you bought but you don't want to get stuck b/t in the middle of nowhere..

 

from what i understand about power only you have to have your own authority which you have to have liabilty and cargo insurance to have that. i checked into jb hunts power only program and they only pay 70% of the gross, to me if i gotta pay all that insurance i would get my own trailer and make more money.

 

Here's one for you O/O. What kind of rate would you charge for a "power only" haul ?

IE -- You pull someones trailer to a specified location, drop it, then bobtail home.

Combination weight would be less than 54k....... 734 miles, one way.

 

10 cents under prevailing TL rate........ DEPENDING on the starting point and destination.

 

Oh gee great...my post got moved here...in a totally irrelavent thread discussing intermodal.

 

I did a power only load a couple weeks back. Picked up an Aggreko trailer
with a generator on it in Baton Rouge and brought it to San Antonio, TX for right around $2400 then bobtailed home....

 

Is that one of those things that looks like a container box with one axle under the back? That's incredible if it is, $5/mi on a legal load.

 

It is a VERY BIG generator that just sits on a regular drop deck spread axle
trailer.

4 to 5 per mile is about what we average as we dead head about 50% of
the time. We specalize in the oil and gas industry and are paid round trip
rates as like I said we usually d/h home after del.