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Need waaaaay more context. From, to, circumstances on the run... etc.

 

Yes prices like that exist every day. Simple answer - call 3 carriers and get there bid for that exact job.

 

It sounds like the freight broker wants a raise. As long as you aren't a client of the brokers and your nephew can help you get the gig, you'd be nuts not to make a play on it. Yes $4.00 or more per mile loads can be hard to find, and when you get an opportunity like that, do whatever it takes to make it happen. Tell your nephew you'll do it for the existing rate.

 

Well, make sure there isn't a 10 hour wait on each side of that run....

 

Weight, commodity, PU and DL times? Area it picks up at and delivering to? The prices are about to jump up within next few weeks

 

This. The above posters are missing a lot of context, and that affects such fun things as, "can the broker cover the load?"

 

I won't give the full details but within the next month my dad will have his #s re-instated and he's buying another eld exempt mack and 2 53 ft dry vans to run light 7,000lb loads of what most would call bottom of the barrel dry freight, 325 mi up into mass for 1500$. That's over 4.60/mi for general freight. And its only 7000LB and dedicated run.

Its on the brokerage side of the company I used to be a company driver for. As many loads as we can handle they said.

They company my dads leaving that he was leased to did these loads so I can post rate cons for those who call bs.

Loads of plastic pipe are usually tmc back haul to get back down south for cheap. Not on a Nealon transportation flat its not cheap, 4.20 mi same with Frito lay loads d-h that they can't cover with their drivers.

 

From my perspective, as a cargo hauler, it also matters if a load is easy. For instance, if the pick up and delivery is within open window appointment and the likelihood of detention is low; the cargo itself is not high value and don't need to worry about leaving the loaded truck over the weekend because of a potential theft or the deadhead distance from the delivery site to my parking is small etc.....I might be all right to take it by a less amount than someone else would otherwise, especially, if it gets me back home quicker by a day or so. It may look from a stranger point of view, that I took that load from MD or PA to IL too cheap, but the fact is that I made my money going over there and back - hauling is only supplemental. Sometimes even completely omitted - I prefer to deadhead 600-700 miles to get back home for the weekend than sit there for 2-3 days and wait for 1.50- $1.85 a mile back haul deal.