Rates for Sprinters and Vans

[goingbroke2]

I've been out of expedite for a year or so and am coming back and would like to know what's the pay rate for cargo vans and also sprinters these days.

I spoke with some recruiters and some are not even signing vans or sprinters, others saying that they pay between 60 cents and 90 cents a mile with discount offers even lower.

I know things are slow now so rather than taking the word of a recruiter, I am just hoping to get some honest rates "straight from the horse's mouth"

 

[chefdennis]

I have been offered loads of 7-800 miles for as low as $.41 cent, with 1 last week at $.48 and another at $.50....I have also had runs shorter in distance that paid over $1.00 recently (yesterday to be exact)....

Nothing is set in stone as far as rates go at this time, they are all over the place. Dispatch sayes they are bidding to get you out of a "slow" freight area....they will tell you that they aren't getting good fuel surcharges because they have to discount the rates....its the way the industry is right now.....

oh and those load offers at $.41, $.48, and $.50 a mile, included the FSC..............

Its no ones fault, it is just how it is..........

 

[Yesteryear]

I think accordin to the shippers the rate for vans is .25 per mile if'n your lucky, Sprinters come in at .26 a mile and straight trucks come in at .27 a mile. . . . oops! Wait. . . maybe that's cheap freight?

 

[chefdennis]

i have never looked for the FSC to pay for all of the cost of the fuel, just an "offset". But at $.04-$.08 a mile sc, it isn't even much of an offset....

 

[Jack_Berry]

the fsc is gonna pay even less of the gas amount with it climbing and diesel staying low.

 

[greg334]

the fsc is gonna pay even less of the gas amount with it climbing and diesel staying low.

That brings up the question if gas van owners know that they are dependent on Diesel prices?

 

[chefdennis]

Yea they covered that in orientation...and i am sitting here in indy at the "J" lookin at Diesel CHEAPER then gas..its been a while since ive seen that, or maybe i just haven't been paying attention....

 

[goingbroke2]

Thank you very much chefdennis, I appreciate you answering my question very much!

No one else gave an answer to my question!
If possible, please stay on topic.


So I will ask again if anyone else out there will say what their company's rate is for cargo vans and sprinters or are the rates chefdennis posted are typical with all the companys these days?

 

[dhalltoyo]

Of course, as lease O'O's what you are not seeing is that carriers are offering their loads to independents for lower rates first.

If they can't get an independent to cover it for less money it then gets offered to a truck in their fleet.

The next time you are sitting in a truck stop watch to see if the independent trucks (cargo vans in particular) leave before the lease trucks.

 

[csands007]

At Express-1 our C/V's run for 70 and 80 cent. +
Sprinters run at A $1.00-$1.05 +fsc. IF it is a sprinter type load...thats over 48 in tall and 3 skids or over 10 feet...or over 2,000lbs.

While the rates specified by Dennis are correct for SOME carriers they really are unnecessary.....

Don't you mean over 48" tall or 3 skids instead of and

 

[cheri1122]

Of course, as lease O'O's what you are not seeing is that carriers are offering their loads to independents for lower rates first.

If they can't get an independent to cover it for less money it then gets offered to a truck in their fleet.

Have you got anything like facts to back that up? [Truckstop chat and 'private correspondence' don't qualify]

The next time you are sitting in a truck stop watch to see if the independent trucks (cargo vans in particular) leave before the lease trucks.

And if they do, jump to the conclusion that they left for a load, and develop a large chip on your shoulder because you just saw the PROOF that you're getting cheated - excellent advice.

 

[DougTravels]

Since I am with an independent carrier, maybe when I deadhead out, I should stop by the nearest Cat or Fedex driver and say that I am doing one of their carriers loads for 1 buck a mile. HeHe that would be mean eh. I'm not gonna do it, just saying it would be something.

 

[DougTravels]

HAHA something like sitting in Delaware, you say "You got something against going to LA", when they give you that strange look you say" Well I just got this load for 1.35 plus 10%fsc from your carrier, I figured you turned it down"

 

[RonJonCMC]

What is better a fixed rate, or 65 to 70% of the Adjusted Gross revenue (Contractors revenue)? The percentage of AGR depends on the mileage. I'm talking for a Sprinter Van. Thanks for any input, from a prospect trying to weigh all the options.

 

[pjjjjj]

Since I am with an independent carrier, maybe when I deadhead out, I should stop by the nearest Cat or Fedex driver and say that I am doing one of their carriers loads for 1 buck a mile. HeHe that would be mean eh. I'm not gonna do it, just saying it would be something.

If that were in fact happening, it might be mean or fun, or whatever catches your fancy, but it would definitely be a great way to cut your nose off to spite your face, becuz your carrier certainly wouldn't be doing any more for them. ;P

 

[DougTravels]

If that were in fact happening, it might be mean or fun, or whatever catches your fancy, but it would definitely be a great way to cut your nose off to spite your face, becuz your carrier certainly wouldn't be doing any more for them. ;P

Just being silly, I said that I would not do that.

 

[RLENT]

Of course, as lease O'O's what you are not seeing is that carriers are offering their loads to independents for lower rates first. If they can't get an independent to cover it for less money it then gets offered to a truck in their fleet. The next time you are sitting in a truck stop watch to see if the independent trucks (cargo vans in particular) leave before the lease trucks.

Uh ..... so what are you telling us here - that you independents are really the ones dragging the rates down to the bottom ?

Seems to me that in a posting in the not-so-distant past you were bragging about how much more you were making as an independent ......

Something change ?

 

[Turtle]

Something change ?

His co-pilot dumped him for a better ride.