Best paying load...

[themagicoen]

With all the talk of no loads, low paying loads, etc. Lets think of the better times - what was your best paying load?

Mine would be the 6 mile mini in MI paying $13/mile FS and $60 mini pay. Only 1/2 mile deadhead and put me 1st out in all the board in Detroit.

 

[Broompilot]

I was thinking of miles by the post. And Thousands not a hundred or two.

I cannot compete with some people here as my company pays by the mile not the load, so short little loads we do not do and I love that. But Boston to Vancouver was real nice, and so was Lexington to Saskatoon, with DH at full rate back to St. Paul MN.

FEDX treated me to some real high paying short runs but they just did not make the bills after running 20 or so miles for a day. Was planning on another load for the day but one run a day and your done in most cases with them.

 

[DannyD]

>With all the talk of no loads, low paying loads, etc. Lets
>think of the better times - what was your best paying load?
>
>Mine would be the 6 mile mini in MI paying $13/mile FS and
>$60 mini pay. Only 1/2 mile deadhead and put me 1st out in
>all the board in Detroit.

I deliver local & we get paid by weight/distance/whether it's a special or not. I don't recall the exact numbers on my best paying loads, but I've had a few that were $120-$150 for 25-30 miles. Those runs are nice but they're also few & far between.

Out of trucking I've started a carpet cleaing business. Thursday I got my first job which was $75. I worked 2 hours & talked 1. The lady gave me a $25 tip. Plus she fed me lunch. So for 2 hours or work/3 hours of time, I got lunch & $100. Relative to what my friends in carpet cleaning are doing I figure I made a lot of mistakes as they often average over $100/hour. Compared to expediting though I'm pretty stoked about what my future holds.

Take care,
Danny

 

[marvinkwagner]

The Pest Paying load Truthfully The Truck I drive had was when Frank Gaieda an Myself were together as a Team 13,000.00 Pu on a Friday and Delivered On my Birthday. Jamica NY to the City of Angels CA

Needless to say I spent 7 hours unloading the Trailer and taking it up to the 7th floor. At that time we a a dry box with a lift gate.

Now I have a Reefer TVal

What Did I get HG a cup cake that I couldnt eat as I dont eat Choc.
So Frank ate it for me.

Yupper

set the Record for Cave mans fleet

Kevin

 

[RichM]

My best load ever was at a mall in Columbus Ohio. A E unit dropped off some store fixtures at the wrong store who accepted the freight . We were called to move 3 fixtures from the wrong store to the correct one. The distance was probaly about 100 feet. I could have thrown a baseball from one store to the other without it hitting the ground.

Total time involved to move the fixtures 23 minutes,total miles including deadhead 7, total pay $580.00. I wondered if the E unit was charged back for this trip.

 

[tec1959]

My best load was In Philly Pa at a Hospital to another Bldg at the same hospital.We loaded an MRI machine that took about an hour and an hour to unload Inside the bldg.So 10 DH and about 100 yards to next bldg and 2.5 hours total $600.00 ...

 

[Olko]

I remember having a few of those short but HIGH paying runs like Rich mentions. I don't remember the exact details, but it's nice to see instead of those 200 mile dh offers on a discounted load, to the middle of no-where.

I also remember a couple of times where the pieces just lined up right with the load offers and having fantastic weeks where we would make more than half of our monthly goal in one week.

Danny, we also thought about the carpet cleaning after getting off the road after seeing how much my stepson was making doing it. Unfortunately for him he was working for a guy who went for quanity over quality when it came to booking his jobs and it just broke him down physically. Stay away from those want it for nothing apartment complexes, and concentrate on the homeowner market. Pushing that wand around is backbreaking work after awhile, why do it more than you have to. I used to have some links to a few good carpet cleaning forums, but I have deleted those, but I hope you have already found them. Having friends already in the business should also be a big help.

Kevin

 

[Turtle]

Had a load once that a driver didn't want to take into Manhattan, so I took it the remaining 100 miles or so after a swap. 5 miles headhead. Two skids, 3000 pounds, 200 boxes about the size of shoe boxes. Marked and booked as HAZMAT, but it was specially packaged consumer hair care products, packaged in stainless steel bottles for use in gift baskets. The consignee was a sports agent. Between the HAZMAT pay, the NYC pay, the do me a favor and take this load pay, it was $400 to get it there.

I had to hand unload it, at hand-unload pay plus unloading time, plus detention pay. Had a handtruck and made 35 trips up and down the freight elevator, and stacked the boxes neatly in a store room for them. Took 4 hours. That was $850.

Total pay for the load was $1250. When I was finished, the receptionist handed me two bottles of cold water and a $100 bill. Two hours drive time, 4 hours work.

Before I even left the consignee I had another load, picking up across the street from the consignee, one box 20 pounds, a noon pickup on that Wednesday for a noon Monday delivery in Vegas.

 

[ATeam]

Our best deadhead ever was a negative fifty yards. We delivered to a warehouse in the morning, pulled the truck straight ahead to park, took a nap, and then backed up fifty yards to the same loading dock to pick up another load that was going at full tarriff.

Best per-mile rate ever is $160 per mile (loaded) for a short five mile run from a museum to an airport, where we drove onto the runway and loaded a piece of artwok into the side of a small jet aircraft.

Best load ever was $7,000+ from Florida to Washington state.

Best week ever was over $10,000 for two back-to-back long runs.

These are fun to talk about, but they are not sometthing newbies should base expcations on. They are the exception, not the rule.

To balance it off...

Worst week ever while in service was zero while waiting for freight in New Mexico. We waited three days for a load that canceled just before we went to pick it up and four days more before we decided to deadhead out of there for better prospects. We don't wait like that any more. At the time we were following the guidance of our fleet owner. We later learned that this owner HATED deadhead miles on his truck. It was not logical, but he would rather have us sit for a week than move empty to a more-active express center.

Worst involuntary off-time week ever was zero while waiting for Freightliner to get parts in to fix a fleet owner's truck. Our fleet owner did not pay for hotels. We were totally on our own that week.

Worst involuntary off-time months ever were two months of down time caused by vendors who did not deliver on their promised delivery date and we had turned in the fleet owner truck we were driving. We will never again take a vendor at his or her word when it comes to a promised completion or delivery date.

Worst load we ever took time-wise was a $211 lift-gate, store fixtures load from the Bronxs to Manhatten. Being brand new, it took us hours to pad wrap and secure the unpackaged, high-value load, and hours more to find our way through New York City. Diane said after, "I've never worked so long and so hard for so little money."

 

[themagicoen]

Well I think it's time for me to move to FEDCC! Panther only pays $60 for a mini less than 30 mile then $99 for a few more miles. After reading these post of making hundreds on a few miles and thousands on cross country trips, time for a change.