Time for the change. My co-driver and wonderful wife has decided she wants to get off the road for awhile. I have taken quite alot of time off over the last year or so to finish building our dream/retirement home. We always took the winters off, and this year it´s again somewhere warm. I will probably come back as a single in February, and am considering going TT. We sold the "D" unit and it changes hands next week. I have alot of time to think about it. I have said in the past that companies pay the same dollar figure to move freight. They just distribute it to the owner/driver in different ways. The high dollar loaded mile figure gets eaten away if there´s too much deadhead. Consider this example. A 1000 mile trip at $1.10 per loaded mile comes out to $1100. If you deadhead for 300 miles to pick it up with no deadhead pay, the all miles driven becomes about .85 cpm. 1300 miles driven paid at $1100 equals @.85 cpm. I would like to hear from some of you that have gone to a "C" or a "B". I read a pretty logical argument that highlighted the net to the owner because of the higher possible productivity (no logging), and lower expenses. I can´t remember where I saw it. I would also like to hear from those of you who are single drivers, and why you are driving the vehicle you have.
