Your average length of haul as OTR driver

Aside from the specialty companies, I don't think many tank companies run outside their region, either liquid or dry bulk. Bigger places like Trimac that have terminals all over North America might be able to offer more OTR work, but most people that do tank work want to be home more often.

I'm currently running limestone from Manitoba into northern ND and getting between 2600 and 3100 miles a week, in 5 days work and wouldn't want to work much more than that. It's really nice not being more than a day away from home. It sure beats tarping.

 

Just depends on your location. Houston I average like 1150 or better on out bound when I run in the Midwest all loads are 300-700 miles

 

Short runs is the norm. Mega companies pay by the mile and the shorter the load the more money it is per mile usually. If a load is 300 miles and pays $4 a mile it’s smart for them to deliver it versus a load that is 1800 miles and pays $2.50 a mile.

 

In Bulk we ran upwards of 500 miles a day, 2500 to 3000 miles a week. But we were paid by the load so... the situation was several deliveries a day. I remember we had a winter storm that covered I70 in two feet of snow and that was only about a one load delivery for me. Maybe 55 dollars for the day. About enough to pay the gas consumed to get there and home after tax. Break even.

 

Most I did with Schneider was about 1080

 

My terminal has a regular weekly run that is 4000 miles total, counting live load, delivery, and tank wash. Our shortest system run (OTR) is 800ish miles. We also have a few out n backs that are 2000-3000 miles.

Schneider does have long runs, but the problem is you are centrally dispatched and just a number. Also they tend to spread out those 500 miles runs over several days which is a total waste of your time...

If you are low on tanker experience just hang in there until you have 12months+ then find yourself a good company.

 

With a year of tanker experience you can probably get a nice local gig hauling fuel and get paid by the hour.

 

I'm out of Houston and I usually do about 3k a week sometimes depends on where I'm going