Rate my month! How did I do as an Owner Operator?

On a personal level, how did that do for you, did you feel like you were slow walking things, or exhausted at the end of your days?

$ amount is good compared to me certainly, but im a lazy home every weekend guy.

Looking at it, you might have been able to drop a week off depending on how the logs and loads lined up for you.

Do that 8 times a year and enjoy your hometime or 11 and sock away money till youre burned out

I give it an 8/10, but mostly cause I burn out living in the truck near the 2.5 week mark, that may not be an issue for you.

$ wise, looks good but if youre looking to max your gross/day, gross/mile, i think your biggest hurdle is knowing which types of loads to take for minimal load and unload, which places ship or receive 24/7. which should translate to a few more loads pulled in the same amount of time, maybe at same miles, maybe a hair more, but wiggling in even one extra 1000$ load each week in there could have gotten you up above 40k

 

I give it an ‘A’ - and concur with all replies thus far for similar reasons.

Though this year is a ‘good’ one, I didn’t hit your figures till the 2-3 year mark.

I’d like to see you at $1250/day for a week or two out, but overall those figures look good to me.

Out of interest - what’s your profit/loss % so far this year? I’m running about 65/35 this year.

 

I think you're on a similar track. When you max out your daily rates, that's usually a 350-600 mile per day trip, depending on markets. What I think many people miss is getting paid that extra day when schedule prevents a same day reload. If you're zeroed in on rate per mile, you don't see the loss.

Another way of looking at it: invoice dollars go in your bank account, rate per mile dollars are fun to talk about but you can't write checks with them.

 

Just talking gross, you’re about where I am with a van except you have to work harder

Already booked for the next 12 days @ $17,250
May just call it $21,000 for 15 days because I’ll get a $4k load from NY/PA to home, South Florida.

Seems like I run a figure 8 around the country twice a month. I typically gross $20/21k per trip.
I chase high gross daily revenue loads and could care less where I go to get it. High paying loads that sit in my trailer too long do nothing for me. $8k SoCal to PA in 4days is what I like, 5days and I’m sour about it and looking for something else.
Unfortunately I run a fuel pig so I won’t get into the nitty gritty, lol.

 

Ok.
Scrolling by fast, I thought of Deliverance episode was going on and you said rate your mouth..

Insert Banjo Music, we’ll just add it..,

 

I've always figured you should have a balance of both what you actually make and rate per mile. 1500 dollars for 800 miles is just as bad as 10 bucks a mile for 50 miles.

 

Great job. You may have left some money on the table running those long distances but for doing so few of loads I’d say you did great.

And frankly these are dream numbers compared to past years. Trucking is extremely easy money wise right now. More so then I’ve ever seen it myself.

Try pushing for 40k this next month. I think it’s possible for you and what your doing. Might as well stack as much cash up as you can while it’s possible. Then, go into the normal times with paid for brand new equipment with a healthy bankroll as well. Then, when your doing 25k per month you’ll still be doing really well but will have adjusted your miles down to do so in order to keep your per mile up.

 

When I first saw the thread title I thought it said Rate my Mouth. Then I see the blonde girl avatar and I thinking WTF is this about. Then I re read it and it’s like oh, not exactly what I thought it was.

 

Oh our first week running under our own authority power only we ran 3700 miles and grossed 10,200 and paid out 1500 in fuel. Last week being our second week we ran 4100 miles and grossed 13,500 and paid out 1700 in fuel.

Today we are starting our week out and booked a load power only going 870 miles(round trip) for 2600.

 

Rates are crazy good at the moment even for power only. We figure we work power only until we save up enough for a step deck or flat bed then we start making even better money. Dry van trailers are stupid high right now so we’ve decided to go step deck here in near future.