That's a loooonng day...you're lookin at ~950 miles.

 

Ya, I don't know what I was thinking. I thought it was around 600. I should be a broker listing loads with incorrect mileage figures.

 

It really depends where I am at. I study the load boards, load to truck

ratios, the going rate for the lanes that are near me. I try to look at the

whole picture before I decide where to move to. Is this the right way to

do it? I don't know. So far it seems to work for me.

 

Steve, the place is for rent on a weekly or seasonal basis. Take your pick. It is a one bedroom villa with screen room with BBQ, perfect bachelor pad. Close to the strip. It's those Ocean Villas next to Pirates Cove mini golf on the corner of A1A, close to RT 40. You can walk to the beach and work on your farmers tan. :P

I had a nice load going to Cheshire from Knoxville, 6000 lbs(nice) but I couldn't get a good rate going down so I baged it. Bastards wanted to pay about $1 to $1.10 a mile like you said. I did find a $1.98 going down but I wanted more so I will stay in my NY,PA, NJ area. I was tring to break out. I will wait till it picks up a little.

Rev, I've been in PA a lot lately. I will keep an eye out for you. My truck has a TRL trailer trailing behind, letters still not taken off yet.

 

Yep. If the load is being refreshed, y'know like it's an hour old or something but it was posted yesterday, I will call again.

In at least one of those cases I mentioned, the cheap truck fell off the load.
She even asked me "Are you SURE you want the load because the last truck I booked was a no show and the customer is really mad at me. If another one doesn't show...that wouldnt be good."

 

Thanks for the info. I guess it works if your on East side of the U.S. but get into the Wyoming, Utah and Colorado areas and your looking at some big time dead head miles to get out.

 

Pirates Cove. I know right where it is. Now, I finally have someone to back me up on this. I want you to verify that there is a drive up window church on the strip!!!! I couldn't believe it so I pulled up and sure as heck there's a priest at the window. I gave him $5.00 and told him I just couldn't believe it. He said lots of retired people just can't get out of the car that easy.

I wouldn't be looking for a seasonal or weekly rental but a full year with a lease. There's ton of houses for rent around there and New Smyrna for $1,000 and under.

I'm glad others find the same crap that I do when trying to return to a good area. I really wonder if the brokers are getting a decent rate from the shippers then sticking it to the truckers because they know we want to get back to the good areas?

I'll keep that in mind Rank about loads being reposted again.

I got loaded with my machinery yesterday and got the light load instead of the heavy one. My appointment was for 10 and I showed up at 8:30 and talked to the guys. They said it would be a while and I said I had all day and take your time. We talked for a while and next thing you know he says they will give me the left over stuff instead of the full truck one!

I get done loading and tarping at 2pm and then the broker calls and wants to know at what time they were finished loading. This time it clicks. I tell her I was done at 11:30 and took a nap. She's like???????? I realized that they want the exact time so they can call back and ask for detention which I know I WOULD NEVER GET an she would NEVER MENTION!!!!!!!! Screw her!

One of the machines had a brand new tarp folded up sitting on it. I asked what this was and they had no idea. It's a real heavy duty 10x12 so I used it to pre cover the machines before tarping. Looks like I just increased my tarp count!! :P

It's 40 degrees here at the MA/NY border. Sure is nice to reach over and hit that little button for the APU. Now, if I only had a stick to reach out and turn on the old Mr. Coffee I'd be all set.

I did see a load on Pittsburgh Logistics load board going back to NH so I put a bid on it online. I bid $3.00 per mile and got a declined response with a note that it paid $2.00 per mile and that included the fuel service charge of $.36 cents per mile. I know they see I'm from NH so it was priced accordingly. I really don't want to go back home but want to see what will happen on Monday if it doesn't move.

I have an easy drive today and tomorrow with lots of time left to drive on Monday morning also. This stuff was put on with a fork lift and should come off in a jiffy. Not sure if I'll get a load on Monday or if I should sit and wait for the best paying one. It's back to that thing that's bugging me about sitting for a day making nothing holding out for $.50 cents more per mile. I really don't think it's worth it when your in a good area. On a 700 mile run it comes out to $175 more and sitting for a day has just cost you the lose of at least $500 that you could be making.

Oh well. We'll see on Monday where to head. I have all weekend to think about staying in this area or heading out to the West. There really isn't any magic loop to make around this area. Any place you head for 300 to 600 miles is just going to end up in a cheap rate back again and I'm also back into that scenario of look, drive, load, drive, unload and lucky to do 2 loads a week.

I'm pretty sure I know who the #1 money maker on this board is. Well, I'm not pretty sure, I F****** know!!!! And, he keeps running and runs hard. His key is that he keeps moving and doesn't sit.

 

Just to stir the pot..... If you look at your cost for tags, ins etc. as a daily cost, it puts a whole different perspective on "sitting for a rate". Costs you "X" before you move the truck...... Let the war begin :twisted: :twisted:

 

Ya but....If you sit all week waiting for that $4.00 load on 400 miles you brought in $1,600.

If you drive 3,000 miles in a week for $2.00 per mile you brought in $6,000.

$4.00 * 400 = ($1,600 - fuel $282) = $1,317
$2.00 * 3000 = ($6,000 - fuel $2,120) = $3,879

That extra $2,562 per week can go a LONG LONG LONG way in paying for many things including at least 5 engine rebuilds!!!

I have come to a conclusion and it means you must work. Not really work when your driving for 5 days out of the 6 but the bottom line is, KEEP RUNNING.

You guys can rag on me all you want but I'm convinced it's better to run 3,000 miles per week at $2.00 per mile then 1,200 miles per week at $3.00 per mile.

I'm going to keep running like I was months ago. I've been holding out for the better paying loads and my cash on hand has been going down. I've tried the Chicago area before and made more money per run but lost twice that calling, driving, loading, driving, unloading then repeat. The Chicago thing I tried last year by the way. Not this time.

There is no magic loop as in TrukZ. You take a beating one way or another in rate and if not rate then total miles per week due to the time involved.

WEST.....Here I come!

 

EXACTLY!..... Just sayin....