Rate per Mile for Owner Operator

1.38 is close to break even cost. More or less, but they need a profit too. That is also based roughly on a 125,000 miles per year. The lower the miles the high the per mile operating cost

 

Two dollars per mile would not be so bad if it was not local. Local work eats up a clock and in some ways more work than otr is.

 

Guys like OP expect trucks to run at cost. They're not concerned about empty miles but honestly that isn't really their problem anyway. If a carrier gives away their service for free that's on them. The real arrogance on display here is someone who needs equipment and thinks they can name a price it ought to cost them... ....well hey, then go load it up on your trucks for cost..... I've had 40 brokers call me this morning all offering me a rate.... ....amazing they called me and told me what they would pay me. When obviously there is some demand there and they still think they can do that. That's arrogance.

 

This was exactly my first thought. All of us or replaceable. My customers can replace me easy. And i can replace them. The good ones will be harder to replace than the cheap ones. That goes for both, trucks and customers.

 

First question: Go ahead, ship your freight with the fly-by-night operation for the price you want. Their quality of customer service will make you come begging for drivers who can do the work you want, but you'll never find it for the price you want.

Second question: You have no idea how important truckers are to the North American economy. Does your business ship products full time? Or is this just a temporary venture for you? Because within a week, hospitals, grocery stores and pretty much every place for people to buy crap will be shut down without products to sell. This is just reality, and your lack of respect for the trucker is why so many businesses these days are having trouble getting good, reliable service.

 

Eh..I'm not a big "the country stops if we stop" guy. If garbage men stop every city has a pandemic disease break out within a week. We are just one of hundreds of professions vital to the country. Could we bring the county to its knees in a few days? Absolutely. But so could two hundred others.