Originally Posted by BIG JEEP on 44's

Well While working at werner the average Solo driver was only getting 1800-2200 weekly mile average due to many Live load/un-loads tied to 150-250 mile trips ,and many times nothing for the weekend at Werner it's not uncommon to hunt down an empty then deadhead 50 miles to a shipper then sit for a few hours then after getting loaded if you have a big mile trip either hand it off to a team 100 miles or less down the road or split it at a drop yard or terminal ,so it can be given either to a team at a later date or given to the NET OPS day cab operation to be relayed across the interstate until the last few miles remain then it is split at a drop yard ,and the driver with the sleeper on his truck gets to shag it over to a dock and sit for a few hours unloading my first FM told me with all the government funding for training students ,and Werner having a dealers license and only paying 53k for a brand new pete,KW,freightliner and selling them for 10-20k more than what was paid for them plus their generous fuel discounts from pre paid fuel by millions of gallons in advance that werner only need 1800 miles per unit to start to see a profit plus ,and that's just trucking profit ,and doesn't account for truck sales which is all profit when you sell a truck for 10-20k more than you paid for it ,and all the money given to you for training new students ,which is constant income with the constant turn over ...Now at Werner 1800-2200 miles was pretty poor at .26-.30 CPM , 2200 at .50 CPM is 1100wk that's decent money ...Now I know Werner is not Heartland ,But they are a big company ,So it's not a stretch of the immagination for me to see them only getting 1800-2200 miles a week per solo unit .