Profile For Michael

Still wondering what some other owner ops are grossing per week.. I'm trying to determine if I am doing everything I can in this market.

What should I be expecting to gross each week? I've been averaging about 7500-9000 per week. This seems terrible to me, but I'm guessing it might be the most I can expect in this market. Is that average about the best I can expect?

Hello all. I've been trucking since 2016, but I recently started brokering my own loads. I know we are in a slow market, but I've been noticing that even when in hot zones with high L/T ratios, brokers are not willing to pay anywhere close to the 15 day average spot rates. I'm well practiced now at negotiating, but brokers just don't want to move. I keep seeing others come along and snatch up loads for absurdly cheap prices. I'm guessing the ones who are biding cheap freight are the larger companies that can afford to screw the rest of the smaller guys? Anyway, I'm barely averaging 2.70 per mile right now at a time when fuel has jumped to 4-7 dollars per gallon. Could someone who's been in the market for a while help me to understand what's happening here?

Btw, plz excuse the poor spelling on my initial post. Talk to type doesn't always work so well.

2016. Thx for answering my question instead of telling me how silly i am to be an owner op. Some of these folks think their own experience is the only experience and can sound quite condescending.

What year is it?

I bought my 2015 volvo with 400k for 60k. That price for a cascadia sounds a little high especially now since the market is flooded with trucks.

For future responders please do not try to convince me that going into business for myself is about idea. I did not ask whether or not I should go into business for myself. My question was do you think the truck I'm looking at is worth the money. To counsel someone not to start a trucking business as an owner op without knowing the details of their situation is irresponsible, arrogant, and condescending.

Hello all and thank you for this great form. I've been trucking cents 2015 and and finally buying my own truck. I've looked at Peterbilts and freightliners and at the sided to go where the Cascadia at 120. It is spec:

13300 pounds front axle and 40000 rear axle. 254 wb 60in sleeper Dd15 450 hp 13 sp trans 3:36 GR 2 100 gal tank 1 yr / 100k warranty Has headache rack and boxes 350k miles

Price 79900

Would you buy this truck?

Every time you weigh-slide tandems-reweigh, enter the number of holes you slid and the change in weight on the steers in a spreadsheet row, then when you have enough rows, use the linear regression function to see if there is a linear relationship.

BTW Michael, I agree that there does seem to be at least a small change, and I see where you said in your first post "I know the change will be small". I think I'm a fellow geek who understands why you want to do this even if it's a small change. It would be cool to be able to model the truck so you could write a program to enter the axle weights and have it tell you the best tandem/5th wheel settings to use. But I also know in reality it would be overkill. I only started out 3 months ago and I can usually get close just by looking at how far back the trailer is loaded.

This person gets me. the program is for when you have to weigh on those pesky scales that require a little math to figure out the weight for each axil. I figured, hell, why not have it give me the optimal placement for the holes too. I have had a 700 pound change from steers to drives just by sliding the trailer... only happened once though.