Damn, I read stuff too fast...kinda skim over and pickup key words, sorry lol.

On the numbers thing, I did $44k gross in June, I got paid ~$21k (off the top of my head, I don't have th exact amount). The $12k I have coming to me is what is paid to my truck. The linehaul was $19k, and there was an AWESOME pack job in there that I did (although I'm not much on packing). Good thing that's not my trailer, b/c I blew 3 tires coming back from NYC on it..I would hate for that to affect MY pocketbook lol.

 

Two reasons:

1. My son

2. My daughter.

 

Those are two damn good reasons there! Way to be a great dad!

 

I did mean "careers" 8) But Teal changes like the weather, and still does big money linheaul. :P

 

can i get in this little game of movers. seeing that tier i feel preety good about myself now thanks for the cheer up.

 

Unless you have detailed numbers from May 22 - August 22, it's a little late.

I'm still waiting for payment on 2 loads, and I'll have my total.

I really deserve this hometime I'm enjoying. I'm going back to sleep now. :wink:

 

I busted out the calculator, and did $55,700 to the truck from May 15th- Sep 1st. Thats $22,280/mo revenue or $4641/wk to the truck. Not impressive at all, but I would avg $250K gross/year at that rate.

I'ms witching agents, btw, hence my temporary retirement. I think my numbers coulda been higher :?

 

Better check that calculator. May 15 - Sept. 1st is 15 1/2 weeks, or 3 1/2 months. At $55,700, you averaged $3593.55 per week, or $15,914.29 per month.

Good luck getting a steady stream of revenue for the other 8 1/2 months of the year. :lol:

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I pulled out my ledger to get the exact figure, and from May 22 - August 22, I did $81,300 to the truck (my cut). That comes out to $6253.85 per week, or $27,100 per month. That was on 19371 miles (give or take), so it comes out to $4.19 per mile for all miles driven.

Some statistics:

- I had 24 individual shippers for the entire summer.

- Those 24 shipments were done in 13 trips.

- My average shipment paid me $3387.50

- My average trip paid me $6253.85

- My gross linehaul for the summer was around $117,259.61. That is just the transportation, before any accessorials, and before the company takes their cut.

- The average shipper paid about $8000 for their move, from beginning to end.

- Labor ran me approx $12,000 for the summer.

- My best month was June, when I did about $30,400.

- I never drove over 7400 miles in a month.

- I got home once for the entire summer, for 2 weeks in July.

- I used approx. 3500 gallons of fuel for the summer, at an average price of about $2.89 per gallon. That comes out to a $10,115 fuel bill.

- I took all of September off, and am planning to do the same in December.

One reason my numbers are higher than Bandits Cousin's is because the company I pull for held out when all the other van lines dropped the FSC 8%. We stayed at the full FSC, which averaged around 18% for the summer. We have now dropped down to the same as the rest of the industry, and it sucks.

So far, they have been able to keep me moving since I came back out, but the loads are definately lacking.

 

I did LOTS of little shipment, more than 24, and I probably did 10 trips. My gig was I did local work for a few days flatbedding or commercial moves (maybe 4 or 5 all together) in addition to my income. Thos were the days I was "off duty".

AS far as home...I lived 25 min from my agency and still found myself getting motels right there instead of driving home after 18hr days and having to be back early. I can honestly say we all earn our money.

Still, looks like you did an avg of $8000/month more in revenue. Thats almost 25K more for the summer.

Still...

I partied in Vegas
....Phoenix

Bought dirt bike in FL, and spent 2 days renting waverunners/scooters and mai tias :shock: 8) 8) So, maybe some comdata money went towrds that, making it look like I made less. If anything I made 3000 more for the summer, at best, if I could track my expenses. Labor reciepts, ya know :lol:

 

Rev.,Bandit, Teal, I have a couple questions.

1. How did you guys get into bedbugging? Did you go right into it or come from Van, reefer etc.? I am going into flatbedding shortly. I applied to Graebel awhile ago but heard nothing back.

2. Not to get into your business . After taxes, fuel, payments, maintenance and other crap, from a owner-operators view do you actually net 6 figs to yourselves after everything is tallied in a year?

An older driver once told me that in order to actually get paid what you're worth in this industry you have to hit the niches .

Bedbugging, autohauling , heavy-haul specialty flatbedding , or produce hauling which I refuse.