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Thread: Flatbed Freight Board We are looking for a good one

  1. 03-08-2008 09:12 PM #1
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    Default Flatbed Freight Board We are looking for a good one

    Greetings; how is everyone out there doing?

    I am writing this in regards to flatbed freight boards other that get loaded dot com. I have not been able to locate a board that is paying okay money per mile. I mean we can find all of the loads that we want, but when a load weigh 42,000 lbs with 2 to 3 stops that is only paying $1.30 per mile is like a slap in the face especially with Landstar paying $2.00 to $2.50 per mile. I know that you have to be in the Landstar family to get that, but what we are hearing from other drivers is, they are making $30,000.00 every 3 weeks as a solo driver pulling Not Wide Load/ Oversized Freight, and they were also booking their own loads. With it being 1 million sites out there advertising their load boards, I am just looking for a highly recommended board that pays good money for flatbed loads. Please advise.
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    Either pay the price and get the full version of DAT load-board; http://www.datconnect.com/ ..or get Internettruckstop.com; http://www.internettruckstop.com/

    DAT cost's more per month than ITS & Getloaded combined...but it is the first board that loads hit, if you deal with brokers only.

    You should also consider signing up with Landstar, Mercer Transportation and Jones Motor, on their brokerage sites. Jowin Express out of MS also runs a fair brokerage.
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  3. 03-09-2008 06:50 AM #3
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    but what we are hearing from other drivers is, they are making $30,000.00 every 3 weeks as a solo driver pulling Not Wide Load/ Oversized Freight, and they were also booking their own loads
    Steve and Gman are doing that much?

    You shouldn't listen to BBR at the lunch counter.
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    Heavy is right, don't listen to those other drivers. If your just looking at the loads that advertise what they are paying then it really doesn't represent a true picture.

    Don't listen to Landstar drivers also. Not many get that much. Take for example Rev.Vassago. He has hauled loads for Landstar at $.65 cents per mile.

    On a more serious note telling the truth. If you want to run a flatbed doing at least 2,500 miles per week you can count on $1.80 per mile. I'm sure people will come in and say this and that but if you wanted to create a spreadsheet with a realistic figure from someone who's doing it, there you go.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SteveBooth
    Don't listen to Landstar drivers also. Not many get that much.
    Really? How much knowledge do you have of their flatbed load board?

    Take for example Rev.Vassago. He has hauled loads for Landstar at $.65 cents per mile.
    I wasn't aware that was a flatbed load.

    240 miles for $251.63 does not equal $0.65 per mile. When you factor in the deadhead that I chose to do, then it goes down to $0.65 per mile. I know that is a hard concept for you to understand, but I was heading in that direction anyway, and chose to take the load since it didn't conflict with the load I had already booked in Minneapolis. Unlike you, I'm not afraid to post the bad and the good.

    Quote Originally Posted by SteveBooth
    On a more serious note telling the truth. If you want to run a flatbed doing at least 2,500 miles per week you can count on $1.80 per mile. I'm sure people will come in and say this and that but if you wanted to create a spreadsheet with a realistic figure from someone who's doing it, there you go.
    ROFLMAO

    One day you average $1.70 per mile, then it is down to $1.40 per mile. Now it's up to $1.80 per mile?

    At least I don't haul $3.14 per mile loads for $1.80 per mile. Shoot - even at Landstar, you would have gotten $2.04 per mile for that load.

    I'm sure you'll be averaging $0.65 per mile once you start factoring in realistic deadhead and stop rounding your numbers.
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    ROFLMA

    Don't listen to him. He's been through 3 jobs in less than a year and I'm sure this one won't last long either.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rev.Vassago
    Worst load I hauled was from Moorhead, MN to St. Paul, MN for fuel money. $251.63 on 385 miles
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    At least I don't haul $3.14 per mile loads for $1.80 per mile. Shoot - even at Landstar, you would have gotten $2.04 per mile for that load.
    Rev. your wrong, with his trailer he would had recieved $2.37 a mile, probably more with the FSC at 100% to the truck.

    But remember he got 100% and got to pay his own cargo and liabilty, and has his name on the door.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SteveBooth
    Quote Originally Posted by Rev.Vassago
    Worst load I hauled was from Moorhead, MN to St. Paul, MN for fuel money. $251.63 on 385 miles
    ROFLMA
    I'm aware that the concept of deadhead miles is challenging to you. Maybe someday you can have a Kindergarten teacher explain it to you.

    And what exactly is a "ROFLMA"? Are you still struggling with that one?
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    Quote Originally Posted by SteveBooth
    I found out how much the customer paid for shipping on 3,200 miles...................$11,500

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    The load I took to Canada was $1.80 for 3,400 miles with a dead head of 40 miles from my house.
    Hauling a 3200 mile load for 53% of the revenue, plus going 200 miles out of route. Priceless.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Heavy Duty
    At least I don't haul $3.14 per mile loads for $1.80 per mile. Shoot - even at Landstar, you would have gotten $2.04 per mile for that load.
    Rev. your wrong, with his trailer he would had recieved $2.37 a mile, probably more with the FSC at 100% to the truck.

    But remember he got 100% and got to pay his own cargo and liabilty, and has his name on the door.
    You're right - I was factoring it at 65%, not the 73% that flatbed drivers get.
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    Steve You have to add off "O" to ROFLMA.

    Roll ON Floor Laugh My Butt

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    Roll ON Floor Laugh My Butt Off

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    :shock: :shock: Uuuuuuh........Guy's.......Celeb asked about load boards that have better freight than does Getloaded.com :? :? Didn't really see where they asked for ya's all to get in a wizzing match.


    On a personal note...I would have let that cheap load sit and kept on dh'ing to Minneapolis....would have used less fuel and time.



    or I wouldn't bring up the fact that I did haul it...if I had hauled it!
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    Quote Originally Posted by 9200IH
    Steve You have to add off "O" to ROFLMA.

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    Ha ha ha, ya, I gotta learn how to play the game better!!! ROTFLMFOAO
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    Quote Originally Posted by Orangetxguy
    On a personal note...I would have let that cheap load sit and kept on dh'ing to Minneapolis....would have used less fuel and time.
    As I stated in the other thread, I won't be doing it again.

    or I wouldn't bring up the fact that I did haul it...if I had hauled it!
    That would be a Steve Booth tactic.
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    Orangetxguy wrote:
    On a personal note...I would have let that cheap load sit and kept on dh'ing to Minneapolis....would have used less fuel and time.


    As I stated in the other thread, I won't be doing it again.
    There's also something to be said for doing a load for that low rate if you are working with just a few LS brokers as Rev stated he is...you're doing a favor to start a good relationship with them..maybe you got them out of a bind by doing that. Hopefully that pays off downstream.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rev.Vassago
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    As I stated in the other thread, I won't be doing it again.
    Ya right. History repeats itself you know. Heck, I didn't even need a calculator to figure out you actually paid them to haul the load!!!

    ROTFLMAO

    This is fun being like Rev.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SteveBooth
    Heck, I didn't even need a calculator to figure out you actually paid them to haul the load!!!
    You wouldn't know how to use it if you had one. If you did, you would know how bad you got screwed on that Canada run.

    I bet that broker was laughing at you. All the way to the bank.
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    ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! har har har
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