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And therein lies the downfall of getting all your loads from a loadboard, where everybody and their mother has access to them, and everybody and their mother has their hand in them. I used to work for a guy who did nothing but get his loads off a load board. Needless to say, he isn't in that business anymore.Originally Posted by SteveBooth
I think most of you talk BS about what your getting unless your hooked up with a shipper but as far as load boards are concerned I think your lucky to get $1.60 to $1.80 at the most. I've bid on tons of loads and never hear back so I'm sure they are getting a cheaper price. If you think a handful of us here on the load boards are going to change the industry by not taking loads for less than $2.00 your F%^%& crazy and will sit and starve. I don't think my average is bad at all and this month should be about $1.80.
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Other than to skew your numbers to make them look better, what is the point of even calculating what you are making for loaded miles only? It isn't a true representation of what you are pulling in.Originally Posted by SteveBooth
The $1.80 is for loaded only.
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C.R. England, Swift, J.B. Hunt, etc. would love you. The trick to making it in this business is to put AS FEW miles on as you can, while running THE HIGHEST rate possible. I would certainly rather put 5000 miles a month or less on, and pull in $20,000, than put 12,000 miles a month on to get that same $20,000. My variable costs are lower, my equipment will last longer, and I won't end up as tired from running my butt off.Originally Posted by SteveBooth
The loads that I've been doing are at least 2,200 miles at an average of $1.80 now. I did do some loads at $3.00 that were under 500 miles but those still took 2 days and not enough time to get to the next one and load until the 3rd day. Some of these loads take up to 4 hours to load up. Myself, I would rather do the long hauls for under $2.00 per mile and take it easy.
