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Originally Posted by allan5oh
Rev, good luck with landstarve.
I wish they'd pay more percentage, I'd consider moving to them. I know generally Canadian loads don't pay well for some reason.
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Some of the Canadian loads I've looked at paid decent. I just did a quick search for loads heading to Alberta, and they were ranging anywhere from $1.95 to $3.40 per mile, pre-percentage (so at 65% that would be $1.26 to $2.21 per mile for dry van loads. Whether or not those include the FSC is unknown) Flatbed loads were in the $3.25 range (flatbed gets 73%, so that $3.25 is really $2.37) with some going as high as $7.32 per mile for 1100 mile trips from Tacoma, WA to Ft McMurray, AB.
Of course, there were some garbage loads on the board as well, but those are pretty easy to weed out with their online system. They have a system that will automatically call and/or email you whenever a load hits the board that meets your criteria, be it origin, destination, rate, etc. They also have one that follows you, and automatically changes the origin city. Both of the agents that I'm pulling for were found this way. A lot of thought went into this load board system.
Every once in a while, I get a phone call from an agent trying to sell me on a load, but for the most part, I am solely relying on the "follow me" system (which I have set to only call me on loads that pay over $2.25 per mile gross - the reason I have it set at $2.25 is because some agents are not including the FSC in the rate, and $2.25 plus the FSC is pretty close to my minimum that I'll haul for).
That is one of my pet peeves with the load board - some agents include the FSC in the posted rate, others do not. Some agents put right on the load board that the FSC is included, others do not. There is no uniform standard when it comes to posting loads. I understand why some agents include the FSC in the rate - it makes their crap loads look better. It's just annoying when I can't figure out what a load is really paying without making a phone call to the agent.
So I finally got loaded this morning, after waiting for about 19 hours. I went in expecting a long wait. The place I loaded at was a military warehouse. I was bringing parts for armored military vehicles to an assembly plant. They required that I have 11 hours available to me before they would load me, although that really wasn't an issue, lol.
Other than the snowstorm that slowed me down a little, and the 60 extra miles I drove thanks to missing an exit on the toll road, the trip was pretty easy. Fuel prices shot up big time. I paid $3.939 per gallon, of which I will be getting back $0.04 per gallon next week.
Total miles = 667 (should have been right around 600, but I missed my exit)
Total days involved = 1 1/2 (stupid waiting time)
Total deadhead = 0
Revenue = $1309.00
Fuel = $777.87
They said I could park in their lot for the night, and since I'm out of hours, I'm going to do just that. Not sure if the agent is going to have anything for me to load this weekend, and I didn't look at the load board at all today for a reload. We'll see what tomorrow brings. I'm not sure that I want to drive through that snowstorm again. From what I heard, 12" will have fallen when it is done on Sunday morning. I plan to go back to get some more of these loads. I could do 2 1/2 round trips a week easily.
