OH WELL a person can't be perfect ya-know !!! Yup Eyerack !!! Yeah don't call them towel heads it pisses em off allright !!!!

So Steve

You have been out there for awhile now tell me how freight is compareing to this time last year as far as availability n rates n such ??? Is this slower economy or recession noticeable ??? Could you give me a idea of what kind of revenue your doing on a monthly basis these days ??? How about monthly profits after expenses ??? Sorry if I seem noisey but I'm trying to understand how much work n money is out there back at home these days !!!

I really haven't kept track of cost per mile or anything like that. It doesn't do much good other than depress you I think. I still take all my money, pay my bills and put everything into the bank. I have close to $30,000 saved.

I did go through my invoices I have stored on my laptop last week and my starting and ending odometer for the year and I did a total of 102,000 miles and brought in a little less than $160,000. That was all miles for everything.

I'm not a good example of what you could do. I tend to take more time off than most people would. I also tend to take the rest of the day off when I drop a load off first thing in the morning instead of loading back up again.

For the past few months I've been averaging more than $1.80 per mile.

I can't say if there is a slow down because to tell you the truth, I don't see any real way of telling that other than listening to someone spout off because they don't have a load at the moment. I've been running OK this winter and last winter just fine. Right now is the slowest I've ever had it but that's because I headed to that sink hole NM. Other than that, it's been good and no complaints.

I've been dealing with mostly long haul loads and after I head back home this time for a break I'm going to try shorter loads at more per mile and see how it goes. Not sure I'll like it since I'll be unloading and loading in the same day but I'll give it a try.

Well I don't know if I would be much different than you or not when it comes to loading some-thing right up again ??? After I would do 3 days out to LA from Chicago I allmost allways sat the rest of that day and usually the next or maybe even 2 ??? If there was something worthwhile to load I'd go ahead n get it on the trailer but that did'nt happen often. I can remember being leased to Mercer and sitting out there at their yard in Ontario Cal for allmost 2 weeks at a crack waiting on some-thing decent.. The rest of their freight was so cheap it was stupid !!!

They would offer .80 and expect you to run with it ??? I know fuel was a lot cheaper then but back in 79 I was makeing .75 and dragging a company trailer ??? I was real real picky about what I hauled and the fact that it had to pay decent .. I was a little heavy too with that steel flat that had a wood floor . Had a hard time carrying 45,000 let along 48,000 but it was mostly because of all the different tie down equip and the side kit that I carried.

I don't really know how busy I'LL be with this RGN when I get back .. Maybe I can try to get a idea about the condition of the freight availability from time to time and get a idea when I would be able to come home .. Thanks for the input !!!

OH YEAH

Looks like that viseen ain't working to good and my teeth need some whiteing HUH !!!! Gotta quit that ol EYEROCKY RAGWEED !!!

I've tried going from one load to another and before I started doing this I was an arm chair dispatcher like a lot of other people and yes, it sounds simple BUT IT'S NOT. It sounds good on paper but it just doesn't work.

By the time you find another load, do the paperwork because your not setup with them and get to the load point, your way out of hours. I stop driving at 3pm and am out of hours and when I try to load again it's like 6 to 9pm when I'm done and I am absolutely dead.

Then you leave the place and try to find a place to park for the night and there's nothing around and the closest truck stop is 50 miles away and you know there won't be any spots.

So right about now your looking for that bottle of Midol and ready to kill anyone who even thinks about cutting in front of you.

Your squirming around in your seat because you literally sweat your ass off and it feels like someone is sticking your azz with needles.

So you find a place on a ramp or a rest area and you spend the next hour trying to clean yourself off with baby wipes, paper towels, bottled water over your trash barrel with soap and anything else you can think of. You try and put clean underware on but end up just tearing it off and throwing it away because it became part of you hours ago.

You also realize that your hands will not appear clean for 3 days as the dye from the gloves has permanently marked your skin.

So now you can relax and heat up some of your emergency crapola you have under your bunk but what you really want is to gorge yourself until your STUPID and the biggest buffet in the world.

You pick up your rate agreement and notice that you now have 3 days to drive 2,200 miles. Why, because the broker or shipper thinks because you picked up the load today you can drive 600 miles. The Hell with your internal schedule and what happened before you showed up.

So in the end, you really haven't gained anything by picking up that load after dropping off in the same day. The only thing you've gained is a butt load of problems.

Some people can do it. Myself, I would rather drop the load off, drive the 50 to 75 miles to a truck stop, shower, fuel up then sit in my bunk and arrange the next load for the morning.

It's really the paper work that drags you down. It's always 10 to 20 pages of crap, insurance companies needing to be involved and fax fax fax fax fax. It's like, give me the freaking address and I'll do the paper work over the next 2 days!!!!!!!!!!!!

Get a 53' combo step with a 10' - 1" spread and I'll give you 50 loads from Kingston,ON to Wilmington, DE.
No tarp.
Load anytime in 1 hour.
Unload M-F 8-4 in 1 hour.
Pay in 7 days or less.
50,000 lbs
$1,000 for 466 loaded miles.

:wink:

Is that the TruckZ game or in real life? ha ha ha ha

Thanks anyways Rank but I would rather slit my wrists then drive to DE back and forth with a 53' step. Remember now, I'm a hobby trucker or something like that.

I was there Friday at 2pm. It's a piece a cake. If a dispatcher can do it surely a hobby trucker can.

Doesn't it go something like this?
1. O/O
2. company man
3. broker
4. hobby trucker
5. dispatcher

Did I mention the shipper and consignee both have WIFI? :)

I'll do it for $1600