"The almighty $2.00 a mile theory"

Who cares how much you make a mile. This per mile BS is propaganda perpetuated by large carriers and the ATA so they can control you butts.

Ask yourself these questions:
What miles are being used to calculate your revenue?
What are the actual miles required?
Why don't the two ever match?
If you were to be paid by the mile and you only needed to move the truck one mile what rate per mile would you need to be profitable?
What if the load went 10 miles?
One hundred miles?
600 miles?
If you don't know how to figure a hauling rate range you shouldn't be an owner/operator.
I have owned and operated my own trucks for almost three decades and never need to know how much I made per mile. I knew what I need to make per day and per week based on the distance to be traveled and how long it takes to go the distance.

The carrier is raping anyone who is holding a steering wheel receiving under or just over a dollar a mile plus FSC. It costs the carrier on average of 1.80 per mile to break even and paying an employee driver 30 cents per mile. You’re lucky if you average 1.40 per mile. If you your gross revenue isn’t between $5,000 to $6,000 per 7 days you'll never make it in this industry. Those are the numbers and the facts.

Finally any one who quotes you a static “I average this much per mile,” isn't a trucker, he's just some one who drank the kool-aide.

 

Why are you so hung up on the $2.00 per mile thing? If you think for one second you're gonna make $2.00 a mile for all miles traveled every single day your sadly mistaken. Not even close.

Personally, I figure on worse case scenario to see what I need to survive, around $1.40 per mile. Everything above and beyond that is icing on the cake. $2.00 a mile sounds great till the truck breaks, or you get hosed by the lumpers and they want $300 to unload you or or or or......

My advice is to focus on a company that actually pays a fair wage, and actually pays you for the work you do, and wont leave you sitting for days on end empty. The rest will work itself out

 

I made $2.00+ per speedometer mile for 2010. Now for the rest of the story~ I'm pulling a specialized trailer.

 

If you don't already own a truck and have it leased to a company, you might want to wait on getting your own authority.

Best thing to do is lease on to a carrier and learn from it. Then you will have a better understanding of rates. Van would be the most simple, don't know much about reefers, and flats are a little more complicated.

I've seen many guys get their own rights and jump into the trucking industry with hopes of setting the world on fire to only end up being part of the problem, not the solution.

 

Heck, I hope you figure out how to make $5.00 a mile every mile. More power to ya. But, Im not a guy to blow sunshine up anybody's butt, I will tell ya the truth both ways every time. If you wanna live in la la land go for it, if you want to hear the truth then pay attention to what the folks on this board have to tell ya. What I gave you was truth.

BTW, if you're gonna make it in a truckers world. You better develop some thick skin, and quick. If you were wounded or threatened by my post bud, you ain't gonna survive.

Kill your thread? Heck no, matter of fact. Im gonna bump you back to the top right now.

 

Well, atleast you not going into this blind.

 

Anyone who don't know their per mile avg. is a fool. Hows that kool-aid taste?