Refusing loads from S. Cali to Denver

Co to Ca is a $1 per mile lane and even those fly of the board quickly

 

It’s the rate - pure and simple.

I’ll go from Kansas City to Denver for $5/mile minimum, because I know there’s nothing in Denver to haul worth a $&@“.

Round trip rates will solve his problem.

 

Call it a 1,000 mile run, and 3 days round trip.

$2,500 to the truck on 2,000 miles (round trip) - $1.25/mile to the truck.

Let’s say you support cheap rates and pull a load back to Pomona for $1.25/mile.

$3,250 for 3 days (with no delays) on 2,000 miles - $1.62/mile to the truck.

Operational cost for a truck? Varies - $1.00 to $1.50.

I can park my truck and drive for a company for $0.65 cpm tomorrow.

Endless supply of new entrants to the industry with high debt will shift that freight, but in current times - the herd thins a little quicker.

Hence your clients dilemma.

 

Theres nothing coming out of colorado that pays worth a dang . The way u could fix this is by offering a good round trip rate and im sure u wouldnt have any problem finding somebody to do that load consistently

 

probably .90 cents going back

 

I got $3 in and 1.44 out recently , doesn't happen very often .

 

If not a round trip rate, at the very least it should pay enough to cover the miles from Denver to SLC so there’s a fighting chance of a load back to CA.

 

$2.22 round trip - still profitable, but should be a regular occurrence.

 

Go get a coors or Anheiser busch load out of the denver area and take it back to Pomona. Used to do that almost every time I went to Denver from SoCal as a company driver.

 

Isn’t there a big brewery just 30 mins north of Denver?