pepe4158 |
05-02-2007 02:35 AM |
Originally Posted by no_worries:
Ohhhh Boy! At 1.10 you'd be working for less than a lease-driver who's making .90+FSC which right now is probably about .24 or so. The lease driver isn't paying for a trailer, load costs, permits, or liability and cargo insurance. So, he's making significantly more than you at that rate. At that rate, he's making about the same $/mile as a company driver. However, out of that he has to pay self-employment tax, retirement, and health insurance. Therefore, the lease-driver is making significantly less than the company driver. So let's review the chain again...if you haul for $1.10, you're making significantly less than a large company lease-operator who is making significantly less than a company driver for the same outfit. So I ask you, what's the point?
Hmmm not convinced I would make less, cuz he would be weighted down withh 44,000 lb loads, we were talking a 1,000 lb load hypotheticaly. You know kind of funny, when I did my own economics of the situation, I have to charge roughly 10c a mile more for 10,000 lbs the math came out differently and was more complex, but to make it simple for myself I rounded it off that way. For example if I took a load weighing say 2,000 lbs for 1.10 a mile, for 12,000 I need 1.20 , 32,000lbs 1.30 and of course 42,000 I want 1.40.......no lease Co. will do that, they expect me to haul a 40,000lb load for the same rate as I haul a 5,000lb load .....no thks, as a independant I pick n choose what weight loads ill take at what price. The companies try to convince me it will all equal out FAIRLY BS I say.
now your real costs. An O/O that spends $30,000 on a tractor doesn't have a truck expense 1/3 that of a guy that spent $90,000.
HMmm how about 20k I spent and 9,400 for insurance....hmmm factor in about 9-13k for breakdown repairs and theres my operating expenses for the year....oh yeah throw in about 3,500 for permits and agencies....n whatever Braken charges me for IFTA; although oonce I get the hang of that 1 n less nervous about uncle Sam and audits ill do that 1 myself.
I try not to touch dry freight for less than $1.50 and that's only if there's a benefit to it. If it's just to keep the wheels turning, screw it. You don't make money just turning the wheels.
WHERE?????? funny everyone complains ill run cheap crap, but no one gives me hints where to get better ;-p
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