Denjah-AS with all things, it depends on what field you are in. I don't see how freight guys can survive...I have HONESTLY never turned my engine over in the morning for $2.50 freight. When I pulled a flat, I got $2.25 a mile out of my area, and ~$1.25-ish coming back...it kinda evened itself out. In household now, I usually run for about $4.00 a mile, my last "run" was from my agent in Denver, down to Central Texas, and I'd re-load here and run back up there...My linehauls ran in the $7k range....figure in my percentage, all of my accessorials, I would do about $3,500 a week. That's not factoring labor etc., but my paychecks (keeping in mind this is the slow season) were between $4,200-$4,600 every two weeks. One thousand miles each way, that pay was after fuel, labor, insurance etc...my truck is paid for and I'm 25, single, no kids...I live MORE than comfortable.

 

That's exactly what I'm thinking. They must've blown it all on hookers, booze, and drugs!

 

My truck will be paid for when I'm 25(next year) as well. I don't know whether I'm going to throttle back the miles, or plow the extra money into investments.

 

That is where you are dead wrong. I (and I'm sure many others here) could care less if you succeed or not. But your know-it-all demeanor is patheti[quote]


If you guys don't care you sure spend a lot of time looking over everything he does.


BTW...while this site was down I saw another board where a O/O is getting .89 cpm plus 100% FSC and many were telling him he's doing good. Rawlco and a few others from here weren't flaming the guy like you do here.

 

Did I mention those were back haul rates?

You guys make me laugh. You sure are an ungrateful bunch for all the good advice you've been given. :wink:

Teal and Rev have it right. If the .89/mile guys would get off their collective a$$ and actually do some work they might actually make some money. I have no problem with Steve's 1.80, I'm just sayin' that FOR A FLAT BED, WITH TARPS, IN THE SNOW, I thought he could do a little better than that on the HEAD HAUL. He's working hard and risking alot for the rate he's getting IMO. He figures he can make more by touching less (ie longer runs, more miles, fewer drops)....maybe he's right and that's up to him, isn't it? But with Steve, it a'int about the money anyway.

I'm cool with it until I see a red star car hauling cheap FB freight in my lanes then he'll wish he bought more air hoses :twisted: :twisted:

I'm learming from his posts too. For example, I'm glad I don't have a flatbed cuz they're only good for cheap freight.

As far as retiring with a million....the next gen has to earn their stripes. Besides, the goal is not to make a million. The goal is to make the NEXT million.

Oh BTW, I was offered $5.25/mile the week before Xmas (OD, double drop, tarp and yes it was through a broker). It really hurt me to turn it down but I couldn't get a load in there (actually there were loads but they either had too many dead miles or they paid under $2...and we all know that stepdeckers don't pull for less than $2) so my average for all miles would have been only $2.62.

There I go again...more BS.

Let me know when you want to get back home Steve. I'll book a load at $2.25 and double broker it to you for $1.40. Just kidding LOL. Good luck be safe.

 

I thhink the point Steve is making is that it's only 3-6 weeks that most major companies have you with a trainer before they toss you out on your own. And it seems like some of those so called trainers are running you as a team from the git-go. That's not much different from the "self training" period Steve has put himself thru.

 

He misrepresents the state of owning your own truck in this day and age. Rank said it quite well:

When you have nothing to lose, and the whole thing is an "adventure", as Steve puts it, then your motives are different from a LEGITIMATE businessman, and anyone looking at this as a TRUE representation of how to purchase and operate an OTR trucking business is in for a shock. I don't complain for Steve's benefit - I complain for everyone else's benefit, so they don't think this is the way to operate.

Please provide a link to that, and I will be GLAD to set it straight. I can guarantee that I never said anything like that.

 

I agree except that Steve could have trained with a flatbed company and learned alot too. For example, I'd pay for the opportunity to train with TMC if they'd let me. Even training in a van, the trainer might have told him not to be glib nor express himself in such a way that people may be insulted and not to demean other drivers or what they do for a living, which is what brought on this latest round of Steve bashing.

 

Here's some more BS for anybody near Syracuse.

FB (or SD) paying $2.56/mile.
Shipper loads 24 hours.
49,000lbs of steel.
40' long.
Tarps.
Auburn NY - Trenton ON
215 miles.
Call Perry at (319)443-2015

We're kinda busy and can take it or leave it. I haven't jumped on it because of the short miles, weight, tarping 40' but mostly because we haven't got a truck close.

Only 30 dead miles off I81. Heck, I'll even reload you for the Philly or NYC area (you choose) if you deadhead 40 miles to the yard. No touch (we load ya...we aint afraid of work). Lemme see...what will I pay.....$1.00 a mile for a SD. That should be about 1.30/mile for all miles. Seems to be good rate around here. I better be careful...somebody may jump at this.

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