So what are you hauling today, Driver? where you going? An whats the pay??

I got on butter and it pays $8.13 a mile. I should have four $1300 revenue days with only 160 miles a day

 

Hauling a used and abused meat grinder to a place in lincoln that is going to be a royal pita to get into lol pay was $800 on 73 miles or something like that aint going to make much though dropped my trailer to get loaded at noon yeaterday wont gwt unloaded till probably 4 p.m. tomorrow. I bid this out for an 8am unload tomorrow...looking back shouldve bid it out at 1400 for tying up my truck for 3 days. Hopefully i can load late out of neb city tomorrow night and deliever saturday morning.

 

I'm bringing a load of frozen peaches from Bonner springs Ks, to Harlingen Tx.and is actually paying 215 a mile.It took me a while but I finally found a good honest broker. We need to stick together and start saying no to all this cheap freight, it only hurts us and most important our families. We need to remember, truck repairs,payments,fuel,etc is not cheap.We need to start thinking like what we are bussines professionals and get paid like such.If not you will not last in this business.

 

cable,

I bought my truck and trailer last july KNOWING that I was going to move from dry van to reefer someday. I just didn't know WHEN that someday would be.

I got connected with another person and we started to compare notes on everything. Rates, costs of operations, cost of maintenance etc.

February, I finally made the jump. I moved from one carrier to another, got out of my dry van and got my reefer.

I was typically seeing a net profit at the end of the month constantly of $2000 or less with the dry van and I was running my butt off. 9000-13000 mile months.

The other night I did my quarterly Profit and Loss. I went from under $2000 profit monthly to almost $7000 net profit for March already on all loads booked or ran so far through Monday, 3/18. The only months I came close to that with the dry van, I had over $7000 in fuel costs. Those are months I ran myself ragged making a dime. This month, my fuel cost is under $4000 compared to $7500-8000.

I give the rate I want, if they don't like it, I move on. I don't care. I might call on 10 loads. I will make an offer on 4-6. I might take 1 or 2 of those loads. There is a LOT of chaff to sift through to get the load you want.

 

I might have to move to Minnesota and buy a reefer...lol

 

Plenty of work up here.

 

How do you like pulling reefer? Theres a lot of work in my area as well just heard the horror stories and headaches (supposeldy)

 

Trust me, I'm thinking hard about it.... It would be hard to leave my little brother all alone in Cali though, and I know he wouldn't be able to handle the winters, he's a native southern cal kid and absolutely hates cold weather.... me? I spent a decade in New England and love the brisk winter air..lol...