What am I missing?

How is anyone leasing on with any trucking company and making money. My research says you need to plan on $.70 a mile for operating costs. If a company only pays $.90 a mile you are only making $.20 a mile. Someone please tell me what I am missing.

I would like to own my own truck and I have talked with drivers who tell me they are making good money leased on to these companies, but never give me any specific numbers. I am not going to leap off a cliff into water that is only three feet deep just because someone says it's thirty feet deep.

 

Because they are lying to you friend...There is no money in leasing.You answered your own question. .20 cents a mile if your lucky....You are nuts to try leasing my friend...

You are so much better off going to St.Louis and getting a company job...Hell i own mine and i struggle terrible and i am with landstar.One of the better companies....

Give it up for now and wait till economy changes..To many guys turning in equipment and going belly up..

 

pissed off driver is right, i just sat with a local produce co.and i interviewed them, and there was 1000-1500 dollar aweek difference in what i was told on the phonewhat the rates would be when i 1st talked about signing on with them.
Needless to say I will NOT put MY truck on with them. and I own my tractor. Heck let paco or pablo haul it for nothing! im just not gonna do it, i just wont work for that little bit of money, i will not work just to pay my fuel bill, I work for PROFFIT

 

Thats what i keep preaching....the reason it is what it is today is because of


cheap drivers...........................

 

Thats right, and just imagine im in san diego,
im actually considering pulling the sleeper and capping the back and puting a 2 line wet kit and running end dump # 94 per hr. with a 4 hr min.

 

Couldn't you just add the wet kit and leave the sleeper to see how is goes???,...

 

sure, i guess i could and thats probably what i will end up doing, but i like to dream BIG!! LOL

 

There's a lot of end dump work here in central illinois, the question is can I make enough to make it worthwhile? I've also considered going totally on my own as a regional driver. Central Illinois is a good place to work out of. The problem is that I never hear any real numbers. For instance I always hear drivers complaining that brokers just rip off drivers, but I never hear what the brokers are offering for loads.

I can go to any bookstore and get all the information I need for almost any brick & mortar type business or online business, yet when it comes to starting a trucking business almost everyone I talk to is doing it "by guess and by gosh." It is no wonder so many fail, you can't run a business by the seat of your pants. I am looking for hard numbers. Obviously there is money out here somewhere, so where is it? I'm not trying to get rich, just work when it's time to work, go home when it's time to go home and feed the family.

 

lets start here...how much do you wanna make gross a week for you...then we can talk hard #'s

 

Hey alien go ahead and keep the sleeper you never know when you're going to break down.You wanna buy the tank and pto system that's alot of money, we did that but right now were taking off the pto system the tank has been off ya wanna buy it lol.Yep there are alot of cheap drivers and cheap freight, that's why people are buying 60k rig's becuase they thout rates would be fine look at them now taking that 60k rig back to the dealer.