yeah I agree 100% Steve at the theory versus reality. Hmmm though, wasnt coastie gonna have 3 trucks n just sit back n manage them, that would be a lot easier then me n you running ragged out here AND trying to do the business end at the same time.
Leaves lots of time t plot and plan from yoour arm chair.

 

Ok...THATS IT! ...Im getting rough now,
Im gonna get that $500 month hitman to start stealig all the good loads you talk about from you guys

Hmmm i can use an academic term too, Capatalistic Darwanism'
N if i have to ill adept by hiring a henchman!

Uuuuw i feel so mean nasty, kinda like the bad guy in that movie, 'open range' when the bad guy hired the gun slinger to kill Robert Duvall....lol
Be warned, my new gunslinger is taking aim at YOUR freight lol

Well all seriousness tho.....Steve was talking about it being too hard to put together 3 or 4 partial loads.......my thinking was if you only book one light load at a full load rate (yeah a low rate sometimes 1.10) you should be able a lot of times and get a second load on there paying 40-50 cents a mile....and bringing that 1.10 up t0 at least 1.50?
That one extra probably shouldnt run you ragged, but i have yet to do it cuz im too green out here to make it work yet.

 

I think it depends on where your hauling from and to also. I just hauled some steel rods that were I think 44,000 and it pulled like nothing. There really wasn't any hills to speak of on the trip so my fuel mileage was pretty.

Coastie.....I think you should come back to the states and be the dispatcher for me and Pepe. I would love not having to think and do all this paperwork.

 

OK! It's more money, and longer time, (btw, i know some truckers, who never made profit :P ).

But i still didn't see any principal difference, business is business, multinational corporation, or single truck operation!
Actually, than smaller you are, than less room for an error you got! :wink:

 

I really don't know why you're so worried about hauling heavy loads. My truck/trailer light weight is 48k lbs....and, driving like that, I get about 6.0mpg...loaded at about 73k lbs, I get like 5.4...is that 1/2 a mpg going to hurt the pocket book? Not hardly, I would be more concerned with where i'm running....now if I'm running up and down the rockies, cajon pass, the grapevine, or the like....then yeah, mileage is going to suck and you'd want more $$ to run it...but if you're hauling flat ground and the plains in midwest to east..I wouldn't think twice about it.

 

Capitalistic Darwinism!?!?? Well, maybe... Let's see, just looking around, who do you think the dodo birds are and who are the crocodiles!? You and me, Pepe, we're crocodiles, but we may have to evolve, first. Me, maybe I'll transform from a box jock into a tanker yanker. You, maybe you'll transform from a dry van bottom feeder and one day have 20 beautiful shiny new trucks hauling nothing but Nascar all over the country.

Stay after it, don't quit. Same here. But, survival for me means "evolution" , so stay tuned....

 

You ain't easy to impress, I see. Let's try...

There are companies that have:
100,000 employees worldwide
locations in 20 countrys and lawyers, translators and 'fixers' to make it all happen
Courting Senators, Governors and Presidents to sway legislation
Strategic plans running 50 years out

Let me tell you about two companies, a huge one and a relative upstart. McDonalds has been in business since the 50's and has thousands of stores all over the globe. I've seen some of them, they've got golden arches all over Beijing China. Google on the other hand has only been around for maybe 10 years or so. Since it's a software company, I doubt they have much land and other property, at least nothing like McDonalds. Want to know something, the value of Google's stock all added up is more than McDonalds. But you're still not impressed, are you? :P I feel you. What does Michael Eisner know about being out in the desert calling around for road service, right? :lol:

I won't get too cocky, though. I still haven't made it completely over the hump. My backup plan is a large line of credit. Either that or park the truck and bail myself out in a company job. If none of that works, I could become a male stripper doing the seniors center circuit and take the money straight out of my g-string and send it over to Freightliner. Not a pretty sight, is it? But, I've always a backup plan. :wink:

 

Cam, you are talking about great ideas, and beginnings of empires
But put that all aside, and what's the difference?
It's all comes to the same;- making profit.

It's like comparing the ocean, with the single drop of water!
Sure there is a difference, and yet they are the same!
And no, I'm not easy to impress! :wink:

 

HHHHHmmmmmm.......?????? I gave up pot years ago, how are you doing it? Golden seal? Solo, you know what you are, you're a damn trucking ninja! Me, I'm your faithful Grasshoppa.

Just having fun, Han Solo. Pepe, tell Solo about Goldenseal...yeah, I know...but tell him anyway. :wink:

 

Well, my last random, said that i don't! :P :lol: