low rates, No profit

[Rawze]

My low-rent, bottom of the barrel, dryvan/reefer market (0.92c/mile+national rate fsc.) arsse is thriving more than ever!. Truck now has 1.4 million miles on it and is totally kicking bootie and taking names here of late!... For me, this is what it is all about ... Cutting the throats of everyone around me while they suffer and complain about not being able to make it. I am taking everyone's low-rent loads that no one else wants because they can't control their operating costs enough to compete lately and I am bringing home the bacon just like always. Truck has been averaging same miles it always does ... been busting every bit of 9.5 - 9.7 mpg everywhere it goes here of late because the weights have gone down in some of the trailers we pull a bit (like amazon and UPS loads are down to 20k loads here lately where they are usually 35k-38K+ gross wt), and been dropping settlement checks deposit into the bank to the tune of about $2600 - $2800/week (single driver these days) after fuel and all the other expenses are sucked out. This is for a single driver w usually about ~2300 miles or less on the odo for the week. We choose not to push our equipment hard, I hate having to work on it unnecessarily because it got beat up by faster speeds.

Could I make more in other markets? -- Sure, but I don't want the headaches that go with them, I'm happy where I am at simply due to the truck always being in high demand nonstop,.. and that is pay/income that a person can count on.

-- I tell everyone on my forum... if you don't set yourself up to compete with guys like me ,... might as well go home or become company driver!, because your just wasting time and money that you could be earning, and loosing out on freight that people just like me can steal out from under you!.


-- And for those guys who say "I ain't haulin' no cheap freight" ... In my eyes, they are the idiots! ... All I see is $$$ whenever one of those idiots say that at the truck stops and on the youtube, etc... what fools!. The actual words that I hear whenever someone says that == "I am too dumb to control my own operating costs, so I blame my lack of good business management on my customers for not paying for my mistakes and lazyness".

In my own eyes, all that cheap freight = A damned decent profit right into my pocket!.

I am not greedy though .. I try to help everyone on here in how to do exactly what I do. I hide no secrets. The trouble is that many do not have the discipline to get with the times, knuckle down, lay off that fuel pedal and speed a bit, and actually achieve it ... SO... next time your looking at no pay, or very little pay, ask yourself "What would Rawze do?" and copy the hell out of it!.

(words of encouragement) ...

Ain't no money in winning the race, not one damn bit. The money is in the ... 'Haul it cheap, drive it as slow-n-steady as one can get away with to minimize every last red cent of long term operating costs, saves on wear, and saves on fuel. Smile while everyone passes you by on the freeways like the money wasting fools that they all are, prevent unpredictable downtime by keeping after everything properly. This makes for a steady, predictable future.