What are escorts charging these days?

I called one in MS one time. I was bored and wanted to go to olive garden. 150.00 for her to show up another 180.00 for her to eat.
I said thanks and ordered pizza instead. If I have to wrap it I won't tap it. I genuinely wanted some one to hang out with. Not bang boots with. She did sound sweet thou. Just Google escorts in Mississippi.

 

Lately I haven't noticed any increase in their rates, but they tend to be all around the same range.

$1.55 Chase, $1.60 Lead -
$1-70 to $2.00 high pole.
Day rate $300-$500.
No -go $200-$300.
Overnights $75-$85

The overnights are a little on the light side - accommodation is scarcely found less than $75/night.

Their fuel cost of $4/gallon, getting 20mpg runs about 20cents a mile - my pilots lately walk away with $2,000 odd for a 2.5 day run, not bad in my opinion.

I hope not to see any further increase in their pricing schedule, but I wouldn't be surprised. They never adjust their rate down when freight rates are in the tank - I think they've been adequately compensated for quite a while now.

 

And to the second comment in your post, if there is O/S loads on the board not being covered, it's likely they're not paying enough.

I've been doing 'plus/plus' loads lately where customer pays the permits and escorts - no matter what situations arise - protecting me from any costs eating into what I do - which I think is fair. I'm not the one who made the rules requiring pilots/permits or restrictions to running time in the way of curfews or detours - so I shouldn't have to pay out of pocket.I'm supplying the necessary equipment to be compliant, and co-ordinating with all the aforementioned services and abiding by the law.

What I often see is a big round number thrown at a load, then another agent throws a similar large round number at it - and they just want an all inclusive load rate. It takes me about 10-30 minutes to sit down and accurately calculate a load and quote it, and I'm often wasting my time, aside from flexing my brain cells.

Say a 13' 10" load on 1,000 miles pops up, 7 states, and they have $8,000 on it.

Then you order the permits to find you'll be on 2 lane roads and require a second escort - or at least a bunch of mini's (day rates) to remain legal, and the route is now 1200 miles, further diluting the per mile revenue.

And your pilot cars aren't in on the initial load negotiation. They're charging you for every mile moved. Your initial 1,000 mile calculation now cost another $640 (2 cars)

Then you get there and they didn't measure properly and it's now 14' 3". So you negotiate another $500 to re-order all your permits, and $500 for the added width.

Then you have a blowout, or they can't get you loaded in time to beat county curfews and then sunset, and you're stuck for the weekend waiting for Monday because several states you're crossing have no travel on weekends. Great. Add in 4 more overnights, 4 no-go's, etc. etc (unless you drop the cars and re-hire some for Monday).

So - it can all turn to custard fairly quickly, and when you deliver and look back at the 5 or so days you spent on the load, after paying permits and escorts - you realize you could have ran 3 legal loads in that time - earned more, and be sitting in the recliner lighting cigars with $100 bills instead of having run the OS load.

You're probably aware of all this - just thought I'd throw it out there to help anybody that wasn't up on how it all works. The above scenario is loosely based on a situation a friend got into last week.

 

This right here is what would be my luck if I ever got into your line of work. I think it is best that I stay where I am and it takes me 10 minutes max to book a load when I find the right one. HA Ha

 

For that kind of money I am willing to change careers.

 

There's times when van rates swell, and it leaves me wondering why I mess around with all this stuff - when I could, like you say - book it, back it and enjoy a nice ride on a sunny day.

And a lot of the risks can be mitigated by proper cost analysis and planning on the front end - but like @Kenworth6969 mentioned from the top - lot of OSOD loads sitting on the board because CHR (or whoever)has a price in mind that doesn't even consider reality.

Those step extendable sign loads are CHR by the way - just booked through a LS agent. I'm pretty hard on her, when she cries that her 'customer' won't pay that, and she risks losing the business. I just tell her to find another trailer in the meantime, I can get to it next week if they have trouble covering it, and my rate will still be the same.

She seems to have a baked in mentality of $10/mile no matter what. She doesn't have the patience for me to explain to her the how's and why's, so I just leave the conversation at the above paragraph and go on.

They're actually pretty easy loads, so I don't price myself totally out of the ball park, but the delivery situations are often a science in themselves - your average White Volvo would be screaming bloody murder at that point and realize they pulled it way too cheap.

 

It's been about a buck a mile for the last 20 years, LOL, has it ever changed?

Comdata still pays a buck a mile, right?

 

All I can say if you do osl is be setup in your sleeper so you can chill 5 days comfortably in one place. I use to play world of warcraft all day when I did it. As far as pricing, I always gave stupid quotes. 17' high 14'wide Texas to NY? No problem, $130,000.

 

Pucks - .05 cents.

 

Big girls need love too. Just not from me.