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What is your time worth?
There’s no shortage of complaints about the hours of service rule, given time is often perceived as the first limiting asset in the quest for higher incomes. Yet I have come to believe that it’s not just time that is the limiting factor, but the inaccurate way that time is valued, that truly limits our income opportunities as owner-operators.
We’ve all been there. We have calculated our pay and asking rates by the mile. We arrive at the shipper and they tell us that it will be two hours to get unloaded and it turns into four. The wait cuts into the time you had planned to pick up the next load and the problems just compound from there.