what would you charge for this haul?

Im not bent, i am actually glad someone can make money trucking but the rates i hear of here on this post are so out of the ballpark with what most others are getting.

I guess its a matter of operating costs as to what is cheap freight, for me 2.00 / mi is the beginning, would i like more sure but sitting at home also cost money ins truck payments etc dosnt stop when your sitting at home,,, for others i guess its 3 or 4 a mile I just dont ever hear or see that.

As long as im not loosing money and making some at 2.00 or more a mile ill run verses making none at all and truely loosing money sitting home, waiting for 3 or 4 bucks a mile.

Now for the oil field 104 to 145,,,, around here its 110-130 per hour and usually under lease the o/o gets 70-75 percent of that unless the o/o is supplying the trailer then maybe 80 percent and that figures out to way less than 3-4 per mile around here.

 

There are no others this is a new haul by my old boss, he is putting together i can go by crude oil shippments they are 380 mile run, same weight and getting 700.00 a run over mostly state hiway and lots of mountians a much more difficult haul but shorter and it takes them about ten hours per load they load and unload much slower.

He wants to go 100% owner operators he supplys the new trailers and pays plating /tags ins etc etc for the trucks, he wants 5 trucks double shift or ten trucks single shift and ask me what i could do the haul for cost wise.

I told him 867.00 per load for me my truck and fuel.

I based it on my current job that pays me 55 / hr for me and my truck i pay only for bobtail ins,,, the trailer, fuel, plating and other ins is supplied by the company i work for.