Rates are crashing and fuel to the moon!

Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by Kenworth6969, Mar 3, 2022.

  1. ElmerFudpucker

    ElmerFudpucker Road Train Member

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    I’ll take my chances of working 3 hours and then being available for 3 more 3 hour loads and still getting done 2 hours earlier.


    There are easier ways to make 50 bucks
     
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  3. wore out

    wore out Numbered Classic

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    I’m for easy too when it comes to 50…..Minimum wage was 3.35 an hour in 1990. 4.50 hr was still unskilled labor wages
     
  4. D.Tibbitt

    D.Tibbitt Road Train Member

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    What....? No wonder why the business is the way it is... I cant believe i just read that
     
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  5. D.Tibbitt

    D.Tibbitt Road Train Member

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    If you work 3 hours 5 times in a row, you will put in 1 more hour of work but make 750 dollars more. Than your piddly 250 bucks for 14 hours totals... Scale that out to a month , a quarter, a year... the difference is astronomical.... If you like to make 250 bucks for 14 hours of work i think you could do better a swift or western express honestly
     
  6. sirjeff

    sirjeff Medium Load Member

    If there weren't a way to crank out a few more of those short runs, I would take the $66/hr profit for 3 hours work vs $17.85/hr for 14, drop my wagon, and go sell some trucking. Sounds like a great opportunity to prospect
     
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  7. ElmerFudpucker

    ElmerFudpucker Road Train Member

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    The old saying work smarter, not harder comes to mind
     
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