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Originally Posted by BanditsCousin
2.25 loaded well, a buck a mile loaded on the way back, and no calculation for deadhead between the loads is what I missed. If you can find a better backhaul, you might be doing pretty good. My fuel costs going 75mpg in a T600 with 3.70's is less than 45cpm.
Now might not be the perfect time, but its the recipe for something good. $2.25 loaded EVEN with fuel at $1/mi (Summer '08') you were still making money. That doesn't mean I justify running for $1.00 a mile.
Do some research on backhauls. Maybe drop and hook with a 2nd trailer and a 2nd shipper under your authority? I think they key piece to your puzzle is out there.
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Bandit, I figure I should have very little deadhead if I'm willing to go down as far as $1 on the backhaul?. I would think I could find something going where I need to be, or drop something on the way, maybe even a partial.
I too am really against hauling cheap freight and would prefer a higher rate even with more deadhead.
This is kind of scary, since I was in Galveston the other day and ran into an owner op that was hauling to the east cost for $1.25. He told me he grossed $280,000 last year in flats and bought a reefer when the flat rates dropped. He told me the reefer rates were as bad after he spent $16,000 putting a new frig unit on the trailer he bought. This guy was no dummy and had been running his own deal for years. He was a bit bewildered to say the least. He told me he had never seen it like this in all the years he had been trucking.....
I've run into other guys with a similar story, and I believe, only the most determined with the least debt will survive this time.
GMAN is using the D word, and it scares me coming from his mouth, becuase I know he doesn't speak flipantly.
Maybe it's not a D but a d. :eek2:
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