Skyview Farms

Heres the Math 1000 a week for the truck, trailer, insurance, plates, permits, and all the cost and takes to start your own business.

You all are basing the figures off mileage pay, I get 82% of the gross load! So lets say that all the loads will pay the same amount which I know they won't ie how long the haul is and what part of the country is it going too.

But lets keep this simple for people.

If I run 3 loads a week at 3000 a week at 82% of the pay that is 2460 per load so that is 7380 dollars minus 1000 for the basics that leaves me with 6380 dollars lets say that these three loads was a total of 3000 miles thats dead and load miles combined.

3000 miles / 5.5 mpg = 546 gallons of fuel. 546 times 4.10 a gallon = 2238.60 dollars
take 2238.60 from 6380

is 4141.40

so my take home pay for the week is 4141.40

now heres the way I see it as a business man.

I give my family 1200 for the week and I take 150 for me to live on the road for the week so that is 1350 out of 4141.40

2791.40 goes to the truck

Now in my figures I based it off 5.5 mpg and 4.10 a gallon

Lets say I could do 5 loads a week imagine what my take home would be than!

You see I am not just someone who is looking at I can make more I also have implace an extra account for my maintance.

 

At your figures, you would have to have 3 loads averaging $3.00 per loaded mile every week to make 7380.00 which is 82% of 9000.00 I DON'T THINK SO

 

So you don't think that there is loads out here paying $ 3000.00 a load? Oh you think percentage load is the same as mileage load? I hope you do realize that the average cost of freight in America gross is around 2800.00! But what drivers dont know is after everything is said and done from brokers, and other middle man, thats where you get 1.50 or 1.20 or even 90 cents a mile for the driver! When you learn how to cut out the middle men and keep it between shipper, reciever, and trucking company you will make extra money!

 

If you are for real, please listen to the people who are doing this and have done it in the past. Your numbers are impossible to do. If they paid that well people would be lining up out the door to lease from them. You may get 2500 paid miles a week, and around 300-500 unpaid miles. So, the freight you are hauling will be rated for 2500 miles while you drive 3000. In these times you may find a few $2.00 per mile gross loads, maybe a few 2.50 or better miles, going up the east coast. Think about how much the tolls will be, Plus you are now in an area where the backloads are lucky to gross $1.20 per mile.

Lets say 1000 miles at 2.50, for $2500.00, an 800 mile return at 1.30, for $1040.00, making a total of $3540.00, Gross, or $2902.80 for you. Ok, we know the total loads were rated at 1800 miles, but in reality you will drive around 2000 miles delivering both loads, plus probably another 200 miles deadhead, which now puts you at 2200 miles, when divided into YOUR part of the freight is averaging a grand total of $1.32 per mile.

I am being generous here in my accounts, and if you have to pay tolls, fuel taxes, any maintenance at all, have to lay over a day or two, pay lumpers, which you most likely will, the rate per mile driven keeps coming down.

You need to look at some other drivers settlements and see what the freight is actually paying. And you, never having done this before, will jump onto a good paying load real quick, not knowing it is taking you into an area where loads gross around $1.00 per mile, if you can find one. You could have to deadhead 300+ miles just to get a $1.00 per mile load. This business involves a steep learning curve. It's not just getting into a truck and taking whatever load is offered. You have to know what is coming out of the delivery area for each time of the year, or you will be broke in a heartbeat doing percentage without knowing your freight lanes.

 

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx! I'm sorry I had to say it. Just because it's percentage pay doesn't mean you're going to get crazy high rates. All it means is you're getting a percentage of whatever POS load they book. You really think they are going to average you $3/mile? You are completely out of your league and have no idea what you are talking about. When I said you would average $1.50/mile I was being generous. You probably won't get close that especially not at this company where guys are working for free. It is guys like you that keep these scams going. You would not believe how hard I LMAO when you just pulled those figures right out of your ***. 3 loads at $3000 each per week? How did you... NEVERMIND. Good luck at the unemployment line.

 

ok, if loads aren't paying say 3 thousand, what is the average load going for where brokers are not involved? I am talking shipper/ reciever and trucking company book freight and no middle men!

 

with skyview you rent the trailer it is not a lease purchase. Also they take 8% for brokerage plus 10% for thier authority plus six hundred a week for trailer rent , you have to give them 500 dollars up front to get a fuel card.That 600 a week also includes license permits and insurance. One thing you forgot was wash outs and dead heading which can be 700 miles or more at times. My son and I rode our motorcycles out to gothenburg last summer from Pa to talk to Alan and Cory in person, we were not impressed but they seemed like nice people just take way too much off of you and we both have tractors that are paid for. A man may at times have 2000 on some weeks go to the house but I am not sure that would happen every week. With that being said go for it you may do excellent or fail misserably but you can neither suceed or fail on an internet forum.I kinda liked the skyview people myself,at the time I was with Mercer and had a much better deal

 

I also ran with a skyview guy one day that used to be with Mercer and he felt he did about the same at both placesIhave no way of knowing if he was telling the truth

 

We also stopped in to meet the Chicoda people in Beatrice Ne in January of this year. I asked some questions on here about them and got some negative feedback and the owner Steve called me he was very upset and a little later they posted a fairly large rebuttal on here,but like I said earlier you wont know the truth unless you give it a try