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This year i think it would be safe to say!

Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by FREEBRD, Apr 6, 2012.

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  1. Apr 6, 2012 #1
    FREEBRD

    FREEBRD Medium Load Member

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    MOST FLATBED-STEPDECK DRIVERS ARE PULLING LOADS FOR $2.00 PR MILE CAUSE THATS ALL I AM OFFERED AND AT THE END OF THE DAY IM THE ONLY ONE LEFT IN THE TRUCKSTOP!

    :biggrin_25521:
    WHAT SAY YOU!
     
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  3. Apr 6, 2012 #2
    SheepDog

    SheepDog Road Train Member

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    This with your own authority?
     
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  4. Apr 6, 2012 #3
    Blind Driver

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    What? Why are you yelling?
     
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  5. Apr 6, 2012 #4
    FREEBRD

    FREEBRD Medium Load Member

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    Yeah! i have my own authority...been sitting more than driving not wanting to take $2.00 a mile.. i guess its the norm now! last year this time 3 wasnt a problem..
    though it was flatbed season!:biggrin_2556:
    my eyesight is not so good any more so i just use caps! FUNNY THING IS I CANT HERE A THING!
    CAPS NEVER HAS BOTHERED ME READING IT OR WRITING IT! I just think its easier too see1
    i guess im not up on proper puter etiquit!
     
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  7. Apr 6, 2012 #5
    SheepDog

    SheepDog Road Train Member

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    LOL,,,laughing about eyesight and caps...

    Sounds to me like you might want to consider getting a different trailer for when flatbed season is over. I have talked to many O/O's that run a flatbed and a reefer or van. I am NOT an O/O and am only telling you what I have heard while doing MY research.
     
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  8. Apr 6, 2012 #6
    SHC

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    $2.00 a mile to the truck isn't good??? I have been getting $2.50 a mile avg so far to the truck, but these are also 1,000+ mile loads as well. If I was going to stick to regional like I believe you do, then $2 a mile would put me under.
     
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  9. Apr 6, 2012 #7
    FREEBRD

    FREEBRD Medium Load Member

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    no not regional! im permited midwest- southern....
    I have been in florence KY for two days!
    middletown oh and the steel mills had plenty 48 thou loads with 30 trucks ahead of you paying 2 dolla a mile.LOL!
     
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  10. Apr 6, 2012 #8
    FREEBRD

    FREEBRD Medium Load Member

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    You are correct about this! its dog eat dog with my 53' flat let alone adding another trailer..
    Do think about it from time to time!
    Also thinking about trading my new 53 cali-spread flat on a low pro stepdeck...
     
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  11. Apr 7, 2012 #9
    SHC

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    Yeah that is just crazy. Are you an approved carrier with Landstar at all?? I took a look and there are 19 loads within 100 miles of you that are paying over $3.50 a mile on the board.
     
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  12. Apr 7, 2012 #10
    BigBadBill

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    Sure I see those rates but don't take them. But plenty of people are jumping on them. But issue I see is my accounts that still only care that insurance and authority are good are able to keep rates low.

    My plastic pipe and insulation accounts have CSA score standards and rates are up with them. And open deck accounts have higher standards than my van accounts.
     
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