Somebody is hauling it ??

What is considered CHEAP Freight?

What is cheap for one maybe a money maker for another that has a more efficient operation?

What is Cheap Freight is such a wide open question due to so many varibles involving equipment types used, number of stops and length of haul along with supply and demand for trucks in what ever area you are trying to pick up freight in?

It is not a matter of if $5 plus per gallon diesel fuel is coming, but when and that will thin the herd.

 

wasn't that show sad. found the dumbest ones and poof instant tv show.

 

i like the one where the boat hauler ran out of fuel, and tried to syphon diesel with a big rubber hose. lame, he got a mouthful of diesel.lol...........

 

I pull loads at 1.25-1.35 pm and I make money, why are you turning down loads under 1.50?

right now its costing me right around .65-.70 pm to run, so that's .50+ pm going into my pocket.
on my outbound loads I take time to build them and try to aim for 2.00 pm or better. if you figure that I pull one load at 2.00 pm and the next at 1.25 pm, Id average 1.62 pm or better on all miles.

Id rather be making the 1.62 pm then sitting.

 

TMC has moved in and cut rates on alot of freight i used to pickup in the atlanta area

 

Cheap freight is cheap freight. If they think they are making money on it they dontbknow how to figure their true operating costs.

If i run cheaper equipment or whatever to lower my operatingbcosts i.am doing.it to make.more money not to run cheaper and make the same

 

If the truck in your profile is the truck you run you can not compare your hot shot truck to a tractor trailer and i highly dought with fuel, insurance, regs, maintenance and all the other costs associated with running it only costing you around $.70 a mile. It cost me last year $1.35 a mile to run the tractor trailer i drive and thats every cost even the payment on the truck. $1.25 freight is cheap no matter who you are unless it a partial IMO.

 

If that photo is your operation then we are talking apples and oranges.

If you are talking about a semi operation then you are clueless to the true costs of operations. No matter how you look at it, it is going to cost over $1 / mile (before labor) to run a big truck. O/O's that have been doing it for years (and clearing better than $100k a year) will be along to point out what you are missing.

 

I understand, and I'm not comparing myself to you big rigs. two different ball games

but the rev drives a rig like mine, so I'm trying figure where hes coming from.

 

SHEEZ your overhead must be cheap what you quoted 65-70 is almost my fuel cost alone