I have a 2020 transit 250 extended length high roof, and 27 months experience expediting. I’ve driven as much as 6800 miles in a week. I’m looking to get on with someone around March or April. Who pays around $1 a mile these days with lots of miles? Someone let me know
2020 transit 250 high roof extended
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We got a live one .... 
Dude, you're a dime a dozen. You have to do the leg work to find a job not the other way around. Here's a tip, bragging about how unsafe a driver you are will not reflect well on you. Good luck ....
Dude, you're a dime a dozen. You have to do the leg work to find a job not the other way around. Here's a tip, bragging about how unsafe a driver you are will not reflect well on you. Good luck ....
Good luck finding that $1/mi company on a consistent basis. Also should have went with a 3500 since most companies require a 1 ton chassis.
danthewolf00
Veteran Expediter
6800 miles in a week i could see a team might do that amount but never a solo driver unless you had back to back runs across the usa.....and you didn't sleep much doing it.
There wasn’t much sleep. That’s just the way it is with hot shot expedited freight. If you pick up in South Carolina Tuesday morning, and it’s due Thursday at 6 pm in Anaheim, then you’re driving until 2 am. Up at 6, driving til 2 am. Up at 6, driving until it’s delivered.
Had about 3 weeks of 6600-6800 miles driving for Russians at .30 cpm. Caffeine and meth free.
Had about 3 weeks of 6600-6800 miles driving for Russians at .30 cpm. Caffeine and meth free.
Why would you do something so reckless and unsafe?
That. Or not have a job. Find another job. One of the reasons people run sprinters is to do away with logs, correct? More miles more money. Why would I attempt to maximize my earnings? Why did the company push it’s small fleet of 20 16 foot box trucks to run that way? I left my previous work of 15 years at the time to make more money, not the same or less.
Ask Greystar Transport. Oh never mind. They went out of business. They couldn’t keep their auction bought yellow penske moving vans running when they ran so hard like that.
Ask Greystar Transport. Oh never mind. They went out of business. They couldn’t keep their auction bought yellow penske moving vans running when they ran so hard like that.
Running hard is one thing. Running with little to no sleep is another.
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Not that my opinion matters but I wouldn't ever hire anyone foolish enough to run 6800 miles a week as a solo and I'd never be foolish enough to let anyone else know I'd done such a foolhardy thing if I had. All the money in the world is worthless to a corpse.
I’m not disagreeing with anything you all are saying. It was very dangerous. However, many less than truckload hot shot businesses run that way.
I’m all about the job. I don’t refuse a job. I’ve not called in sick since 2001. That’s just my mentality. It’s good to be positive. It’s bad to be a corpse, or cause harm and death to others.
I’m just saying don’t be so negative towards me. It came down to me from above my head.
Thankfully, I guess...they’re out of business as far as expedite is concerned. I was with them for 27 months, and outlasted all their drivers. I guess I see why now.
I’m all about the job. I don’t refuse a job. I’ve not called in sick since 2001. That’s just my mentality. It’s good to be positive. It’s bad to be a corpse, or cause harm and death to others.
I’m just saying don’t be so negative towards me. It came down to me from above my head.
Thankfully, I guess...they’re out of business as far as expedite is concerned. I was with them for 27 months, and outlasted all their drivers. I guess I see why now.
That was my job, and I lived to tell the tale. I did later realize that the dispatcher was telling shippers that we ran two men trucks, but that’s not the case. It was always solo, hence .30 cpm. I was turned away 2 or 3 times because the shipper asked if I had a co driver-“your dispatcher told me you had a co driver”. Dispatcher was upset, but I’m honest.
Knot sure what I can say except this is all so wrong on so many levels 
Where is Ntimevan when we need him?
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Where is Ntimevan when we need him?
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Yeah , I could say alot , but the Dumb Son of a Witches just don't Listen or give a Krap . So my new thing is Let Them Go Bankrupt and go Crying to their Mommy..Knot sure what I can say except this is all so wrong on so many levels
Where is Ntimevan when we need him?
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sent from my Recliner..
And that's where the saying “work smarter not harder” came from.
It is the drivers duty and responsibility to refuse any any all actions he/she deems unsafe. I don't care two doodley farts what the dispatcher says.
In my retired opinion, of course.
danthewolf00
Veteran Expediter
If you had caused a crash you and only you would be liable... why because you chose to drive unsafe like that....in my 11 years of driving a cargo van i never ever drove stupid after my first load back in 2007.....why because there is no load worth my life or the life of those i am driving around.
In high school I had a teacher and wrestling coach who was fond of saying, when appropriate: "If you were given a brain today, it would be lonesome."
4 offers. Funny how on nearly all of the threads, it’s the same group of people commenting in general. Usually it’s negative. Keyboard warriors!!!