What would you ask for this load?
#11
10-13-2010, 07:36 AM
Trucker's math. After Landstar's cut and fuel, you're making $7440 for the entire job, or a whopping $1.09 a mile. Your "2 weeks" is almost guaranteed more than that, simply because of terrain and weather. Bigmon is 100% correct: one breakdown, and you're suddenly making nothing.
#12
10-13-2010, 11:11 AM
Trucker's math. After Landstar's cut and fuel, you're making $7440 for the entire job, or a whopping $1.09 a mile. Your "2 weeks" is almost guaranteed more than that, simply because of terrain and weather. Bigmon is 100% correct: one breakdown, and you're suddenly making nothing.
Landstar is a rip-off in my opinion. Anyone who takes a percentage of my stop-off pay and dips their hands into my layover pay can kiss my ***** Tracer, just wait a day or two if need be and find ya another load. I am telling you, ya need to come run stuff from Chicago to Ontario. Most of it pays over $1,200 a trip and you could work 4 days and make as much as you are OTR
#13
10-13-2010, 07:23 PM
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Just wondering , would fuel be higher price up there? Would you be able to find it when you needed to? Geez, road service just for a flat could take a day and cost an arm and leg.
Man I could worry my self to death on a run like that!
#14
10-14-2010, 07:22 PM
Trucker's math. After Landstar's cut and fuel, you're making $7440 for the entire job, or a whopping $1.09 a mile. Your "2 weeks" is almost guaranteed more than that, simply because of terrain and weather. Bigmon is 100% correct: one breakdown, and you're suddenly making nothing.
#15
10-15-2010, 10:15 AM
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
Posts: 1,316
I agree with you guys. This run is just too dangerous. I actually didn't think about a possibility of a breakdown. I was concerned about the weather and road conditions up there. That's why I didn't take it. It's just that this was the highest paying load I've seen on the board so far. Instead of this one I did 300 mi empty and picked up a load of 25 ft long steel racking in Idaho going to Regina, SK, Canada: 300 miles empty, 900 miles loaded - $2,700 gross. Dropped it today and unloading took forever because of the Conestoga sliding tarp. The forklift guy was good and didn't damage anything but I basically had to move the truck back and forth while he had the racking in the air. There was no other way to get it off the trailer!
I thought I'd be stuck in Regina after this but to my surprise a local Landstar agent called and offered me a load! I picked it up today - Friday - right after I had dropped the darn racking. This is a beauty of a deal: Deadhead: 45 miles (!), 45,000 lbs on pallets, going to North Dakota; 387 loaded miles. $1,178 or $3.04 per loaded mile to the truck 
#17
10-17-2010, 10:07 AM
I know you are a Canadian thru and thru, but how hard would it be for you to move to the US???? I mean, even just rent a place over the bridge. It seems like it would make more financial sense for you to move here and make more $$$ being able to run loads intra-US and also Canada.
Just wondering.
#18
10-17-2010, 11:02 AM
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Sh*t, you could probably rent a place in Detroit for $200. a month :lol: :smokin:
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#19
10-19-2010, 02:12 AM
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
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I think it's pretty much impossible: I'd need a green card and permission to work in US. I can rent a place or even buy a house - no problem - but I cannot work inside the country. Lots of Canadians own real estate in US but getting a job is a totally different animal.
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