Truck Load Rates Halt 8 Week Slide 2.0

Under $2 per mile? I'd rather do a quarter of those miles each month and make more. Not to mention you'd be gone at least 2 weeks on every run. Every truck I see hauling mail is generally some beat up old piece of crap held together with bailing wire and duct tape.

 

There are 70+ million of us feeling exactly the same way right now. Great post.

 

You guys keep talking about freight, but here is how I feel right now, watching the ####show everyday, remembering crazy 90's in my politically unstable Eastern European country after the Soviet Union collapse

 

Am I the only one a little freaked out by the dog?

 

It seems to me that it is a team job.
This distance is covered in 3 days each way by a healthy team . Best suited for a committed wife and husband (owners and operators) team...if they don't quarrel too much.

1. Power Only. Quick Drop & Hook --- if it is.
2. U.S. Mail - yes, it may be a consistent year long contract.
3. Potential revenue of $42 400 per month on 21 600 miles should leave enough to amortize truck's wear due to the high mileage. It is a substantially different matter when you run $2 per mile on 2000 miles per week and $40 000 on 20 000 miles per month.

This job could either cement the marriage or break it too. LOL
Which is to say that my major concern would not be the profitability but a mental break down of doing this for months on end.

 

beat up newer piece of crap**

 

A stage coach sounds like John Wayne movie. I may take you up on it one day.
I also would like to try some gold mining in Sierra Nevada. Maybe they left some nuggets from the old days.