I just completed a 2,449 mile deadhead, Billings, Mt to Ft. Greely, AK. I am leased on with ATS, on the mileage plan so I get $.81 deadhead miles. I deliver this load to Killeen, TX, so it is some serious miles.

 

Well, technically, you are not dead heading on a "mileage plan". Yes, it is a "dead head", but it's company, not yours....

 

Deadhead means without freight. It has nothing to do with pay status.

 

loaded miles: 978
deadhead miles: 903
total trip miles: 1881
line-haul: $2,989
"out of route mles": $310
fuel surcharge: $301
tarping fee: $100
total freight pay: $3,700

I get to keep all the tarping fee and fuel surcharge, not sure about the "out-of-route miles" .... they will probably give me the usual 72% of $2,989 and 72% of 310. Let's see how much it'd be per mile to the truck.

2,989 x 0.72 = 2152
310 x 0.72 = 223
+ 301
+ 100
-------------------------
$2776 to the truck for all 1881 miles, or

$1.47/mi.

But if you look at the loaded miles only, you'll see that this customer - upon my insistence - paid $3.78 per mile ($3,700 divided by 978 mi = $3.78).

 

When I was at LS running van, I did runs for a aget out of Chicago (CHI) and ran a Con-Way run from Des Plaines, IL to Miami, FL for $4,000 to the truck (my cut) and I would just bobtail back. Did 1 runa week. left monday morn and came home friday afternoon. Wasn't bad till around January when they decided to have Con-Way drivers run it themselves. Thats when i left.

 

Just wondering why did it take you all week to go to miami & back?

 

Chicago traffic ! lol It's 1400 miles each way. 2800 miles for 4.5-5 days doesn't seem too bad

 

$1.47 Isn't that a pretty low rate to the truck considering you end up in Montana?Can't imagine any decent paying freight out of there back to Canada so it means another long deadhead to find decent freight again.

 

I think $1.47 to the truck for ALL MILES is not bad, even after I did 900 miles empty. When we did this exercise at Landstar orientation, determining the required revenue per mile, I came up with the number 1.35/mi to the truck or 1.85 gross (total line-haul to Landstar).

Part of a reason for this $1.47 is that when I check for high-paying freight on their board, it's 100% flatbeds. stepdecks are somewhere at the bottom of the list and if the agent requests a step, it's usually because the load is either oversize, or has parts of it sticking out in the front and the back ("no headboard"). I'm kinda stuck with my Conestoga stepdeck .... and most loads I do are of a 'flatbed variety'

I just checked: out of the last 5 loads I did for landstar, NONE needed a step (a regular 48' flat would be okay) and only 2 loads had to be tarped. One of these was a load of 4' tall machinery and the second one is the one I'm doing now where you have to cover two 1' tall skids and 1 6 ft tall machine.

So, I don't know ... maybe my rate would improve if I traded in my Conestoga step for a regular OPEN 48' flat!

 

2,800 miles. Plus I don't like to drive non-stop anymore, it gets old and boring REAL fast. I don't have any bills, no truck payments, so I'm working like I'm retired at 30 yrs old LOL

It wasn't bad, every penny went into my pocket, and I had a really good weekend and was ALWAYS home. Which made the ladies happy.