So, a couple of you probably remember my other posts when I asked advice about my business plan and such. Since then I've finished getting my authority, been doing different kinds of work. I thought I had it all figured out before I started and I planned on doing just intermodal. Long story short, didn't end up working out. The ports out here in NY/NJ are an absolute horror. I did power only for a little while, tried working for JB Hunt for a little while, so on. Now i've finally gotten a trailer of my own and i've been getting loads off of DAT and getloaded.com and so on. When I first started out it wasn't bad. You had to search a little for a decent rate and there was always the jokers who expect you to work for even less than a dollar a mile but I could still find work. But now... I just don't know what to do. I literally called at least 50-60 people today and of all the loads that weren't taken, the highest paying one came out at about 1.20 a mile. Thats flat rate, without FS. I feel like I'm stuck in the god damn twilight zone over here, like ALL of my work until now has been for naught. Who the hell are these people and how do they actually expect me and the rest of you to work for free? I'm racking my brains out, wondering if theres something I don't get, something I'm doing wrong, etc. Maybe theres these super truckers out there who get 20 MPG with a 45 thousand pound load so they can actually make money. Myself on the other hand gets about 7.5 MPG fully loaded and I just cannot do it.
I'm sure I'm not the first person to complain about this. Someone make sense of this for me.