Stepping Out With My Own Numbers

Care to share anymore details wise one?

 

What details? Holidays are coming

 

This. I've been preparing some of my customers who still don't seem to quite get the holiday difference...

 

It's good eatin' right now. My advice is to not be timid to name your price and no matter how much they squeal on the other end of the line, stick to your guns.

 

Might wanna keep your customers informed that prices are going up to cover the ELD mandate, rising road taxes built into fuel price, etc. Carriers shouldn't be expected to absorb those extra costs. That's what I'm sharing with everyone I do business with.

 

It's an ongoing topic of conversation with the folks I do business with. Most folks have been preparing for it.

 

This is why I'm refusing to even offer a quote next week. If someone needs a shipment moved, I'm simply telling them: "Let me find you a guy; I'll let you know what the rate is before I book them, and you can make a decision at that time."

 

Got hooked up for the holiday on a load with Coyote. PU in IL and has two stops in NY, 5k dollars, and finals Saturday 0600. I already have a load that afternoon that is also big money, then a not so great one to MS; booked up through the 28th. Even with 8 days off in this month I'll still have 20800.00 by the time I hit MS, or, 1,000 dollars a day.

 

Had to drop my trailer in the mud hole drop lot to be loaded and hook back up in the same mud hole this morning and slide my tandems there. The 6x2 had no trouble, engage the diff lock and the traction control and did all these tasks just fine in thick mud. If I didn't have the switches to do it myself I'm sure it would have had a problem.

 

I'm @ $20,513 in revenue for the month at around 7,800 all miles with a dry van doing an Oregon to California loop. I could easily end up doing $26,000 in revenue if I want to this month, which would be my best month so far as an owner op 2 years in. I'm thinking about it