Rate for TONU

I got stumped at the $500 part. How many loaded miles...45 more?

For what you were going to get out of the load, and for the deadhead miles involved, $150 is fair.

45 miles....Houston to Galveston?

 

Galveston is not too far. 150? Eh... that's not too bad. 20 foot boxes go for a couple thousand dollars shipped to Europe. A few chains and hours later you have your 150.

 

Hope that is the poor man's rate on an mty box 500. Mim should be 750 on a flat. Less than 100 miles. Those easy deals can sometimes take a day and next morning.
But 150 for a flat seems fair for tonu

 

You read my mind.

Do you remember where they used to keep trailers before they built that yard on SheldonRd? The construction place off 290 in Houston where you had to dig your trailers out of the mud? There was a place near there called United Galvanizing. Way back when they started having loads out from United Galvanizing to Port Arthur,TX that paid something like $700-800/load. 90 miles loaded. I was thinking 2 loads a day, structural steel, 5 days a week...an easy $7000-8000/week! Sign me up!

They were soooo freakin slow. Had to go to one place, get checked in and watch nature films about the receiver, sit there all day, then get moved to a drop yard where they didn't unload you until the following day. 2 loads a day? Couldn't even get 3 loads a week!

 

Yea good old 4 seasons yard. Mud pit central. Gate closes at 5pm. Even if your inside. Trls just kinda dropped and lumber tossed everywhere
Yea what you think will be easy ld, turns into a joke.
Ask the guy going to Alaska in 2 months about the big bucks he made

 

Was just thinking the same thing!!! Alaska is great... but only 4 a fishing or hunting trip via airplane. Not in a loaded truck. And not in the start of the freeze. No idea what he is getting into. Me and my brother made that trip 4 years ago right before spring. Laredo to Fairbanks and back empty. Took 19 days as a team. I would need at least 23-25k 2 make that run again.

 

A few years back, a buddy of mine calls me up telling about his load to Birmngham,AL to Fairbanks,AK.

Six: $30000
Driver: What?
Six: $30000 to run that load. And that's for general freight. OSOW is extra.
Driver: Oh....
Six: "Oh"? How much did you take it for?"
Driver: $9900
Six: Dude, you just lost your arse!
Driver: Well, I've been wanting to go to Alaska and...
Six: Rent a car.
Driver: Well, I can make it with that and...
Six: Do you know the difference between a trucker and a tourist? A trucker gets paid to travel. A tourist pays to travel. You're paying someone to move their load. If you want to be a tourist, rent a car.
Driver: Man, if I can make $100, I can make it work.
Six: For three weeks?
Driver: .......

Wayyyyy too many tourists out here.

 

Six, kinda like the job I was offered before my opps. Go to Anchorage and haul nacelles 125 miles to lay down yard. Ok and the pay is.. well we're are working on that,, but we will pay you 30k round trip mty up and mty back
Me, are you flippen nuts...
But that's good money to bounce up there.. Yea if I'm in Western B.C. not the states.. But But, we need you up there.
Nope, send a company trk and trl
Luke did it. I called him later. He was all happy at the beginning.. End of project, he admitted he lost money. Dumb arse