[rank]

Originally Posted by 2

I can't answer that question.

Some drivers live very well.

Some drivers, running the same stuff, don't live well.
Those that don't live well, contribute to the depression in rates.

So you want to see fewer drivers run for cheap but you can't say what cheap is?

[Mackman]

Originally Posted by rank

So you want to see fewer drivers run for cheap but you can't say what cheap is?

anything less the 4.50 mi. :wink:

[rank]

did you mean .45 LOL.

[Sonny Pruitt]

I don't drift all over the country looking for loads
If I find a good load I try to be on time ,call etc
but then I hammer the broker to get more loads
during the week
If I find a good load I go back over and over
asap
now I have a goal....cover these loads
I key the rest of my week trying to connect with them

but I have also used a 1.20 backhaul as a center point to connect the dots
I can plan a whole week around a 1.20 load out of New England
but they are not random loads
they have to connect seamless to a desired area

[no_worries]

Sun recover from deadhead pray for mega on Monday

Therein lies the flaw...mega comes on Fridays :lol:

[Ian Williams]

Originally Posted by merrick4

They had a great program on Talk of The Nation on NPR today on wealth. I missed the very beginning but it was on how or when do we consider ourselves wealthy.

They had one guy call in or was just finishing med school and made the comment that there are Family Practice doctors who could treat 50 people a day all of them of much lower means and yet the doctor will compare himself with the cadiologist down the road and feel not as wealthy.

They even mentioned one guy who had a yacht but he was standing on the dock looking at the much bigger yachts and feeling like his yacht was inconsequential.

I guess in the same vein, there are many many people I've met in my short time out here who would love to be in Pepe's shoes. But I guess it's just human nature I guess to never be content with what we have; really in a way that's good cause if we were content with what we had we wouldn't strive to be better.

Ferengi Rule of Acquisition #97
"Enough... is never enough."

This holds true for lots of things in life. I have a friend from high school who has worked in car sales. He has told me that the one constant is that almost all people want more car than they can afford. The guy with the Honda wants an Acura. The Mercedes driver wants to keep up with the Joneses and get a Maybach. At the top of the heap you have Larry Ellison (founder of Oracle Software) and Jay Leno.

[LOAD IT]

Originally Posted by Sonny Pruitt

I don't drift all over the country looking for loads
If I find a good load I try to be on time ,call etc
but then I hammer the broker to get more loads
during the week
If I find a good load I go back over and over
asap
now I have a goal....cover these loads
I key the rest of my week trying to connect with them

but I have also used a 1.20 backhaul as a center point to connect the dots
I can plan a whole week around a 1.20 load out of New England
but they are not random loads
they have to connect seamless to a desired area

I had a guy with 40 years in the industry (with his name on the door) tell me every load has a purpose if it gets you back to the money load.

[2]

Originally Posted by rank

So you want to see fewer drivers run for cheap but you can't say what cheap is?

You are right, about that.
It is still an individual thing, and will be, for quite some time,

Part of it is in the cost of living, around the country,.
NY will have a higher cost of living than KY.

Another factor that most don't consider, is the cost of dental care. This should be factored into the wage that a driver requires.

Thus, it should also be factored into the driver pay component, that an O/O uses to determine the least he can run for.

There are a lot of drivers out here, with no teeth, or poor teeth.
Low rate drivers will have a hard time taking care of their kid's teeth, much less their own.
Good dental care also has other health care implications.

The question is not easy, nor simple.
There are enough desperate people to keep the rate down.

They just don't understand that it is a pay me now, or pay me later type of question.

The same way a low rate driver defers maintenance.
They don't understand that deferred maintenance is the same as eating truck parts and supplies, for dinner.

That doesn't help with the dental problem, either.

[rank]

Originally Posted by 2

You are right, about that.
It is still an individual thing, and will be, for quite some time,

Part of it is in the cost of living, around the country,.
NY will have a higher cost of living than KY.

Another factor that most don't consider, is the cost of dental care. This should be factored into the wage that a driver requires.

Thus, it should also be factored into the driver pay component, that an O/O uses to determine the least he can run for.

There are a lot of drivers out here, with no teeth, or poor teeth.
Low rate drivers will have a hard time taking care of their kid's teeth, much less their own.
Good dental care also has other health care implications.

The question is not easy, nor simple.
There are enough desperate people to keep the rate down.

They just don't understand that it is a pay me now, or pay me later type of question.

The same way a low rate driver defers maintenance.
They don't understand that deferred maintenance is the same as eating truck parts and supplies, for dinner.

That doesn't help with the dental problem, either.

Brudda, you are preachin' to the choir.

[Bigmon]

?[/quote]
Another factor that most don't consider, is the cost of dental care. This should be factored into the wage that a driver requires.

If that's the case then a company driver should do the same.



There are a lot of drivers out here, with no teeth, or poor teeth.{quote}

They seem to have lots of chrome though.
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