[CelebrityTrucking]

Greetings; how is everyone out there doing?

I am writing this in regards to flatbed freight boards other that get loaded dot com. I have not been able to locate a board that is paying okay money per mile. I mean we can find all of the loads that we want, but when a load weigh 42,000 lbs with 2 to 3 stops that is only paying $1.30 per mile is like a slap in the face especially with Landstar paying $2.00 to $2.50 per mile. I know that you have to be in the Landstar family to get that, but what we are hearing from other drivers is, they are making $30,000.00 every 3 weeks as a solo driver pulling Not Wide Load/ Oversized Freight, and they were also booking their own loads. With it being 1 million sites out there advertising their load boards, I am just looking for a highly recommended board that pays good money for flatbed loads. Please advise.

[Orangetxguy]

Either pay the price and get the full version of DAT load-board; http://www.datconnect.com/ ..or get Internettruckstop.com; http://www.internettruckstop.com/

DAT cost's more per month than ITS & Getloaded combined...but it is the first board that loads hit, if you deal with brokers only.

You should also consider signing up with Landstar, Mercer Transportation and Jones Motor, on their brokerage sites. Jowin Express out of MS also runs a fair brokerage.

[Heavy Duty]

but what we are hearing from other drivers is, they are making $30,000.00 every 3 weeks as a solo driver pulling Not Wide Load/ Oversized Freight, and they were also booking their own loads

Steve and Gman are doing that much?

You shouldn't listen to BBR at the lunch counter.

Heavy is right, don't listen to those other drivers. If your just looking at the loads that advertise what they are paying then it really doesn't represent a true picture.

Don't listen to Landstar drivers also. Not many get that much. Take for example Rev.Vassago. He has hauled loads for Landstar at $.65 cents per mile.

On a more serious note telling the truth. If you want to run a flatbed doing at least 2,500 miles per week you can count on $1.80 per mile. I'm sure people will come in and say this and that but if you wanted to create a spreadsheet with a realistic figure from someone who's doing it, there you go.

[Rev.Vassago]

Originally Posted by SteveBooth

Don't listen to Landstar drivers also. Not many get that much.

Really? How much knowledge do you have of their flatbed load board? :roll:

Take for example Rev.Vassago. He has hauled loads for Landstar at $.65 cents per mile.

I wasn't aware that was a flatbed load. :roll:

240 miles for $251.63 does not equal $0.65 per mile. When you factor in the deadhead that I chose to do, then it goes down to $0.65 per mile. I know that is a hard concept for you to understand, but I was heading in that direction anyway, and chose to take the load since it didn't conflict with the load I had already booked in Minneapolis. Unlike you, I'm not afraid to post the bad and the good. :roll:

Originally Posted by SteveBooth

On a more serious note telling the truth. If you want to run a flatbed doing at least 2,500 miles per week you can count on $1.80 per mile. I'm sure people will come in and say this and that but if you wanted to create a spreadsheet with a realistic figure from someone who's doing it, there you go.

ROFLMAO :lol:

One day you average $1.70 per mile, then it is down to $1.40 per mile. Now it's up to $1.80 per mile?

At least I don't haul $3.14 per mile loads for $1.80 per mile. Shoot - even at Landstar, you would have gotten $2.04 per mile for that load. :lol:

I'm sure you'll be averaging $0.65 per mile once you start factoring in realistic deadhead and stop rounding your numbers. :lol:

ROFLMA :roll:

Don't listen to him. He's been through 3 jobs in less than a year and I'm sure this one won't last long either.

Originally Posted by Rev.Vassago

Worst load I hauled was from Moorhead, MN to St. Paul, MN for fuel money. $251.63 on 385 miles

ROFLMA :roll:

[Heavy Duty]

At least I don't haul $3.14 per mile loads for $1.80 per mile. Shoot - even at Landstar, you would have gotten $2.04 per mile for that load.

Rev. your wrong, with his trailer he would had recieved $2.37 a mile, probably more with the FSC at 100% to the truck.

But remember he got 100% and got to pay his own cargo and liabilty, and has his name on the door.

[Rev.Vassago]

Originally Posted by SteveBooth

ROFLMA :roll:

I'm aware that the concept of deadhead miles is challenging to you. Maybe someday you can have a Kindergarten teacher explain it to you.

And what exactly is a "ROFLMA"? Are you still struggling with that one?

ROFLMA :roll: