Three years of own authority costs combined.

The youngest is 4. I missed so much with the older kids, I can't go back in time to correct those mistakes but I can try to do it right this time around. But it could also be argued that if I hadn't been working so much then, I wouldn't be able to work so little now.

 

keep your head up man. I can tel you are really down. It seems to go in 2 yr cycles and this one won’t be over until at least Sept of 20 so just hang in there. Next time around when others are taking time off in the good times, you’ll know to be going harder then ever so you can hang back a bit in the bad times. Also, pretty sure I gave you some insight In PM the other day into making yourself more sought after especially in the area we run.

 

Yep. Definately keep your head up. And try to maintain perspective. 3 years is not a lot of time. It's not even enough time to see a full economic cycle in the industry. 17 and 18 were booms. 19 was not great but not nearly as bad as it can get. Take the lessons you have learned in the last three years and use them to excel in the next boom, and get by in the next downturn. This game is a marathon, not a sprint.

 

Attention: DAT, Truckstop, Brokers, Shippers, and Receivers!

Your offered rate of $2.10 per mile is crap!

The OP has invested in making YOUR business a profit that is greater than his own. You have no parking available, refuse to pay detention, layovers and accessorls. And the outcome from a guy that wanted his own business to help out YOUR business shows your greed in profits is more of importance than the truckers that keeps you in business.

 

Why wouldn't they laugh if tons of Elk Grove people move that lane everyday for $800?

 

#2.....I pulled a reefer for a month to help a friend out. He had a small building with two docks, no real storage inside but plenty of room to shuffle stuff around. We’d go pick up multiple stops from a couple different shippers and then take the 2 or 3 trucks and build some really good paying LTL loads at his dock. That was my first look into that world, and I can see why people do it. But his brother was also in the office full time putting multiple LTL loads together.

 

Wait, are you taking 76 all the way? I always use 322-99-80 going west from there