Stepping Out With My Own Numbers

Load Saturday. Last stop is 0700 Wednesday. I wanted it done Tuesday, but one of the drops had an afternoon delivery and screwed it up. With my previous load though, Wednesday to Wednesday is 8600.00 revenue and only 2150 miles. I did a short run for big dollars, DH back home and sat at home until Saturday.

 

Got everything done through the end of the month. Total revenue 77,590, 23818 total miles, 13.5% DH, 3.25 rpm all miles. My truck brought in the most, 31, 050 revenue, 8578 total miles, 3.61 rpm. One truck only ran 7068 miles but brought in 22,620 revenue. Holiday is up and these receivers had it out for me. All three trucks had multiple delays since last Thursday, it still worked out, just stressful.

 

I could have done more, but I got one guy home yesterday and the other guy got home today and they’re off until Monday. I probably could have close to 30k each on them too.

 

i mainly use them for back office stuff. When I’m driving I can’t sign the rate con or check the driver location right away. Merge rarely books a load for me. I have my pattern and running area pretty set and stick to that. I will send him a few loads I’m interested in and say to call on them while I’m checking in, getting fuel, etc. The majority of my loads are booked and negotiated by me. Merge might book 2-3 loads in a week, but that’s based on the options I’m sending him. I have a hard time giving up too much control. I also run the same lanes every week.
Merge is good because you can give them as much or as little control as you want and it’s nice having some back office support for tedious tasks.

 

Usually, I look the day before my delivery in an area. I’ll browse sooner than that and if I see a good one, I’ll grab it. If nothing catches my attention, I don’t start putting effort into it until the day before. Depends on area too, Albany, NY and East I start looking a couple days in advance. I’m booked up through Tuesday right now. This broker had an out and back run, I asked if they had one back towards Columbus, OH, he did and the rate was good, a broker I work with a lot has some nice loads out of Columbus. Once I knew I’d be there I called him up and got one of his loads that’s done early Tuesday. I do that pretty often too. I run the same areas a lot, so I’ll email brokers I get loads from in those areas and do those as much as possible. I have a regular pattern I stick to. That helps keep my revenue and rpm up without trying to chase the highest paying load on the board. In my opinion, you’ll make less doing it that way.