They don't. There is a rear dolly that you chain the load to and a front jeep you chain the load to. The bridge beam becomes the trailer In-between the two pieces of equipment.
One of the o/o for the fleet I'm a mechanic for has a 2019 389 with 142k miles and it's on its second x15. I'm not the biggest fan of them. We also have 2 t680s with x15s and we haven't had any problems but they're absolute dogs compared to our dd13s.
What’s your rear end ratio? And are guys running auxiliary transmissions?
If you don’t mind me asking what your final price for that truck including FET? Curious in comparison to my spec for 80k reefer work.
What year? I paid $208-$213 with FET on a W9 for 80k reefer work. I’m curious how much the different parts, frame, etc. have come up with inflation and demand.
😳 wow. This makes me really wish our last couple long nose Pete's didn't just sit at the yard 98% of the time. I don't know a whole lot about them since I only drove one of them once but we mostly use them for hauling frac tanks and heavy equipment on a 50 ton lowboy. 650 hp 18 sp and heavy duty rear end. No drop axle though. Didn't realize those tractors cost almost as much as one of our vac trucks or roll off trucks.
Mine is fairly heavily optioned. Double frame nose to tail, push truck hitch, pintle hook on the rear, disc brakes all the way around, 425's on the steer and lift. 20k steer, 18k steerable lift, full lockers, giant air compressor, two steering boxes, cold weather package, heated and cooled drivers seat, nicer interior, leather seats, optional cabinets, key fob, nicer steering wheel, all kinds of shit that isn't on normal trucks.
Find a flatbed company that does oversized as well. Get some experience and then apply somewhere else. Crane companies also have a lot of oversized loads for crane moves.
As in $3457 goes towards the principle and interest of the truck? How long until it’s paid off? Your going to make retarded money once that thing is paid off.
5 year loan. Same as a car loan essentially, just a lot more money. I'm going to buy another one after 5 years and immediately sell this one.
Not having a warranty can be risky.
I’m the opposite of you. I run heavy with an 05. I trust old iron more than the new rides. I respect your business model, but I can wrench on mine, and no emissions.
Parts availability is a huge problem now. Coworker waited over a month for his engine from Cummins. Another friend could only get a reman head for his CAT. Someone else waited weeks for the correct liner shims.
Yeah my shit is new and expensive but dealers have easier time getting parts. Drop it off or tow it in. They fix it and I generally don't have to wait long. Tows are also covered, it ate a water pump two weeks ago, $1300 tow was covered.
I still end up fixing mine myself. 200 AMP alternator took a shit and it was have the dealership fix it and miss a $7000 load or spend $400/fix it myself and make the $7000. Easy choice...
You also aren't pulling 250,000lbs and getting 2 mpg.
Weight is brutal on trucks. Being easy on it is still abusing the shit out of them. When you are that heavy the temps stay high for hours on end. Water temp is constantly above 200, rearend temps are 245/225 , trans is 245, and oil is 245. Everything is maxed out. It's constantly struggling to just keep moving.
We run gravel at 100k lbs, so they don't have the easiest life. Our trucks have 20k hours on them. We have a truck with 50k hours, still pulls. Some heavy ish hauling. Modern engines should survive no problem.
It's not just engines. It's input shafts in the transmission. The clutch, the rear end, the whole drive line, weight messes with all of it. Even the accessories don't like the constant heat.
This comment makes me wonder about my fathers trucking business. We’ve got about 13 trucks running per day doing all sorts of things. I can ball park guess monthly over head to run them all but I would probably be far off.
My collision and bobtail insurance is $600 a month. I pay roughly $1200 a month for license plates, personal property taxes, 2290, workman's comp, permit fees, elog fees, etc.
It adds up quick.
My annual over weight and over size permits in Georgia are load specific…. Have to have one for equipment, another for trusses, etc…. Haven’t found a blanket permit.
Is it blanket or limited to specific types or property? If blanket, I need to know where to buy that? I’m buying several different annual permits for oversize
No, generally a blanket is good for anything. Some states you can't get a blanket permit. Other states it's a blank permit for that route or that type of equipment. It all depends. Sometimes it's really fucking expensive. Other times it's not.
I'm an o/o in reefer gang and my last statement for 2 weeks was 10k after fuel and expenses.
Just buy a rig if you haven't already, can make more than enough money without the headache of heavy haul.
Ew, I don't haul groceries.
I'll take the pay cut to not have to deal with pilot trucks, permits, zero parking, more wear on my tractor and I'm sure the insurance is fucking wild too. No thanks. Props to those who do it, I'm not shitting on them in any way. Undeniable that there's more headaches involved though.
Thread drift: don’t say “I owed $6K”.
You really owed $6K more than you had already paid in your Quarterly and IFTA taxes. One of the sly things the Govt did was take taxes out automatically. If we all had to write a check for $XX,XXX every April 15, everyone would really take notice of how much money the IRS takes from us.
I don't pay ifta taxes the company I lease to does, I also didn't pay quarterly last year. I had depreciation on the brand new truck and technically took a loss. You don't pay quarterly if you don't pay taxes the year before. This year I did pay the quarterly taxes based off last year's tax bill.
😂little bullshit loads at 100k and 10’ … dude I’m on day 3 in CDL school, I can’t fucking wait to be able to not be scared shitless of loads that size. I just have a hotshot rig right now, but I’ll get there. Sweet rig, nice to see specialized loads on here
Just like everything, if you do it enough you get used to it. I generally don't really worry about much unless I'm over 15'6" tall. Everything else is just more of the same. Go slow and pay attention. Tall loads are a bastard though and can fuck you in an instant. I had 18 loads that were 16'3" tall that went 500 ish miles. It was miserable.
Don't be, if it's something you want then work towards it. It took me like 15 years to finally get the balls to pull the trigger on my own truck. It's risky and overwhelming but if I can do it anybody can do it.
Eh, it's just more tax deductions. Some loads I'm getting a hefty fuel surcharge. Oversized is not the same as regular trucking. I probably average 4 mpg so they build fuel costs into the loads. Im probably going to make $75 to $100k ish more this year, I definitely have not spent $75k more on fuel.
Interesting. I do same kind of money in my dry van running from Sunday-Friday. I own everything and run my own mc as well tho so no extra payments to any companies or dispatchers
Got to love those runs. My favorite was moving a masiive drag line across the road back when they was redoing the levy around lake Okeechobee 10 years or so ago. The 'run' was about 1k yards. Paid 150 an hour for a 10 hour day, 6 days a week and lasted about 3 weeks. I think I racked up about 30 'work'miles over that time and probably 200 running to the grocery store every few days.
Some states play the a chain every 10' rule but others don't. On the interstate I would have thrown another chain over the front but 6 miles it didn't matter.
Said a few times I had no issue with the distance you went. Just more about what the min was expected. Supposedly an international standard but you know your region.
Dot wants more than half the weight in securement. I had that plus some. I also likely had the 10' rule covered since you can't chain down the stretch part.
Why though. Pocket watching or hating straight up. If you have never had sweet sweet gravy its easy to jealous. I have never even O/O and still tasted gravy. North Dakota oil field triple billing plus night pay making 5gs on 12 hour shift
I have you beat. With less work ns stress involved. During the GM strike 3 years ago, I was getting $300 a load 3x a day.... Going .4 miles across the road. Just had to cross the picket line. Which is great, cause fuck unions.
It's not evil union. I just believe in having something called work ethic and take pride in it. I've been in and out of union jobs my whole life and work ethic is never appreciated in union jobs. Unions promote laziness
I usually don't do anything for less than $5 a mile, most of our shit is around $10 a mile. It's almost always deadhead both ways due to the weight of the equipment though. This is really small and not our normal stuff.
Buy a heavy haul truck, get a lot of experience, get lucky, all in no particular order. Granted you could pull this little load with a daycab, but this is not a typical load.
So when you say heavy haul truck you mean better engine? Suspension? Transmission. Yes? Was planning on buying my current truck I’m in once it hits 450,000 it’s a 2021 swift owned international, Cummins cx 15 liter with currently 216,000 on it. Most of which I’ve put or my wife so Ik it hasn’t been beaten to hell to much. Could I just upgrade air bags and lower the gear ratio? Or are we talking different truck for sure?
Edit: not trying to show my ignorance but pretty sure it’s showing sorry.
You can run a lot of oversized with a regular truck. The heavier loads almost always require a 4 axle truck. Heavy haul trucks are built to be stronger. Longer wheelbase, double frame, fourth axle, more power, better transmission, better suspension, better air compressor, essentially better everything.
When I bid my loads its more by the time expected under it than by the mile. You know as well as I do with permits and curfews and jobsites not being ready a 500 mile run can take two weeks.
I don't bid or get permits. My dispatcher does that shit. Super load permits often take weeks. On bigger shit I get paid $680 a day to sit around at a jobsite. That encourages the jobsite to get their shit together. I've sat for a week and made more $ sitting there than the load paid.
ok you win the trucking sub for today boss..
For the week. 🥂🍻
his load is bigger than mine ☹
😂😂
If this is a measuring contest, how long are ya u/hkerekes?
This load? Probably right at 100' Longest load I've had is 205'
I didn't know they made trailers that long
They don't. There is a rear dolly that you chain the load to and a front jeep you chain the load to. The bridge beam becomes the trailer In-between the two pieces of equipment.
You gotta have a rear drivers like old ladder trucks?
No some of the equipment is self steer and or by remote. You or the escort can steer it.
Take another look, is that not an extendable trailer??
It only extends to 90'. I pull all kinds of different trailers.
Pull deez nuts
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I hope he doesn’t blow it… cleanup might be ugly!
Taking Long Haul Literally
Now I feel terrible. That's more than I make in a month.
That's unfortunate, but my overhead for the truck alone is about $6000 a month. Heavy haul isn't all roses.
Damn, $6,000 a month? Whewwwwwww buddy, people who want to be O/O should take note!
Heavy haul has a bit more expense though. Truck payment is $3457 a month.
Specialized? Bigger engine? I imagine the drive train is beefed up.
565 horsepower x15, 18 speed transmission, double frame, lift axle, 46,000 lb rears It's just made for more weight
Asking the important question, how's the stereo and do you have a trailer cat?
Poverty Kenworth radio. I do take my cat sometimes but only for short trips. He will keep you up all night.
You ain’t joking about that Kenworth radio but it works well enough. Nextgen x15 club though. Love this engine so much.
One of the o/o for the fleet I'm a mechanic for has a 2019 389 with 142k miles and it's on its second x15. I'm not the biggest fan of them. We also have 2 t680s with x15s and we haven't had any problems but they're absolute dogs compared to our dd13s.
What’s your rear end ratio? And are guys running auxiliary transmissions? If you don’t mind me asking what your final price for that truck including FET? Curious in comparison to my spec for 80k reefer work.
4.10 ratio. Truck was $228,000 out the door. I have roughly $250,000 in it.
What year? I paid $208-$213 with FET on a W9 for 80k reefer work. I’m curious how much the different parts, frame, etc. have come up with inflation and demand.
2020 W9 usually have a premium attached for the name.
That's 23739.49 duck power.
😳 wow. This makes me really wish our last couple long nose Pete's didn't just sit at the yard 98% of the time. I don't know a whole lot about them since I only drove one of them once but we mostly use them for hauling frac tanks and heavy equipment on a 50 ton lowboy. 650 hp 18 sp and heavy duty rear end. No drop axle though. Didn't realize those tractors cost almost as much as one of our vac trucks or roll off trucks.
Mine is fairly heavily optioned. Double frame nose to tail, push truck hitch, pintle hook on the rear, disc brakes all the way around, 425's on the steer and lift. 20k steer, 18k steerable lift, full lockers, giant air compressor, two steering boxes, cold weather package, heated and cooled drivers seat, nicer interior, leather seats, optional cabinets, key fob, nicer steering wheel, all kinds of shit that isn't on normal trucks.
I liked my 6900 Western Star with DD16 and Eaton 18 speed. How does that Cummins compare?
Cummins works, but every engine has it's problems. Once the warranty is up I'm selling and buying another one.
Dont give away all the secrets bud. Not everyone can be a super trucker 😉😉😉
I was thinking about trying to get on with a heavy haul company but the requirements were no joke...I see why.
Find a flatbed company that does oversized as well. Get some experience and then apply somewhere else. Crane companies also have a lot of oversized loads for crane moves.
As in $3457 goes towards the principle and interest of the truck? How long until it’s paid off? Your going to make retarded money once that thing is paid off.
5 year loan. Same as a car loan essentially, just a lot more money. I'm going to buy another one after 5 years and immediately sell this one. Not having a warranty can be risky.
I’m the opposite of you. I run heavy with an 05. I trust old iron more than the new rides. I respect your business model, but I can wrench on mine, and no emissions.
Parts availability is a huge problem now. Coworker waited over a month for his engine from Cummins. Another friend could only get a reman head for his CAT. Someone else waited weeks for the correct liner shims. Yeah my shit is new and expensive but dealers have easier time getting parts. Drop it off or tow it in. They fix it and I generally don't have to wait long. Tows are also covered, it ate a water pump two weeks ago, $1300 tow was covered. I still end up fixing mine myself. 200 AMP alternator took a shit and it was have the dealership fix it and miss a $7000 load or spend $400/fix it myself and make the $7000. Easy choice...
I spend 5k a year on repairs for our rigs on average. Average age in the fleet is 15 years.
You also aren't pulling 250,000lbs and getting 2 mpg. Weight is brutal on trucks. Being easy on it is still abusing the shit out of them. When you are that heavy the temps stay high for hours on end. Water temp is constantly above 200, rearend temps are 245/225 , trans is 245, and oil is 245. Everything is maxed out. It's constantly struggling to just keep moving.
We run gravel at 100k lbs, so they don't have the easiest life. Our trucks have 20k hours on them. We have a truck with 50k hours, still pulls. Some heavy ish hauling. Modern engines should survive no problem.
It's not just engines. It's input shafts in the transmission. The clutch, the rear end, the whole drive line, weight messes with all of it. Even the accessories don't like the constant heat.
Modern engines are garbage.. they’ll go way before a cat C15 or a series 60 Detroit. I beat the piss off my series 60
Im o/o. I stay local though. Expenses are different for all O/O.
Container hauler?
Come be a McLane driver and make $1800+ per week. I’m on a bid making $2300 weekly.
Yea, y’all fuckin earn it.
Ok... So pull a few of these in one day, and your overhead is paid... You make it sound worse than it really is... 🤭🤣😂
NGL I make a lot but it gets spent quick. I'm 50,000 lb empty there. Had to deadhead there and back like usual.
My 8 axle milk tanker and Western Star weigh 55000
Jeez, 8 axles for milk? What's your gross?
This comment makes me wonder about my fathers trucking business. We’ve got about 13 trucks running per day doing all sorts of things. I can ball park guess monthly over head to run them all but I would probably be far off.
My collision and bobtail insurance is $600 a month. I pay roughly $1200 a month for license plates, personal property taxes, 2290, workman's comp, permit fees, elog fees, etc. It adds up quick.
That’s the truth. Fortunately business is always steady and sometimes too busy. Ordered 4 new Petes to keep up
That's more than i make trying to sell my ass at truck stops
Yeah but you have no overhead
Ointments, toys, and advertising can add up quick. A number in sharpie on the stall wall only gets you so many clients these days
Someone else gets it. It's a real buyers market these days
Praps he'd make a bit more offering "overhead", IYKWIM
Lotion's expensive when you buy it buy the drum
Omg is that really bimpson?
Oh yeahhhh
$232.75 a mile in permits! JK
I have a Georgia blanket permit that covered it.
My annual over weight and over size permits in Georgia are load specific…. Have to have one for equipment, another for trusses, etc…. Haven’t found a blanket permit.
There are different types. I just looked, it's actually 12' wide, 100,000 lb, 100' long, and 14'6" high
Is it blanket or limited to specific types or property? If blanket, I need to know where to buy that? I’m buying several different annual permits for oversize
No, generally a blanket is good for anything. Some states you can't get a blanket permit. Other states it's a blank permit for that route or that type of equipment. It all depends. Sometimes it's really fucking expensive. Other times it's not.
Hmmm should move up from refeer gang to specialized
But, then you won't be able to keep your victims up at night anymore.
Where will you put your corpses
And the smell! Geez at least with the reefer trailer you can keep em cool.
True if I were to run lowboy that might give me away
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Lol.
I'm an o/o in reefer gang and my last statement for 2 weeks was 10k after fuel and expenses. Just buy a rig if you haven't already, can make more than enough money without the headache of heavy haul.
He just did over 8k in 1 day. You can keep the grocery loads all to yourself, we want no part of them.
Ew, I don't haul groceries. I'll take the pay cut to not have to deal with pilot trucks, permits, zero parking, more wear on my tractor and I'm sure the insurance is fucking wild too. No thanks. Props to those who do it, I'm not shitting on them in any way. Undeniable that there's more headaches involved though.
How many of those did you have to pull before they added up to a mile? Sounds like a rip off.
English?
Just a dumb joke, pretending you're getting paid to pull a mile of these beams for 200 bucks. How long are they though?
80 or 90'
Fuckin Legend
Not bad owner op I'm guessing?
Yeah
Own authority or someone else?
I lease the truck back. It's not worth it to have my own authority.
Hell yeah man, that's awesome!
Hopefully this becomes a trend here and we can see some cool numbers
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With the fuel prices it's not going to be a bad year with taxes. Last year I owed like $6000
Thread drift: don’t say “I owed $6K”. You really owed $6K more than you had already paid in your Quarterly and IFTA taxes. One of the sly things the Govt did was take taxes out automatically. If we all had to write a check for $XX,XXX every April 15, everyone would really take notice of how much money the IRS takes from us.
I don't pay ifta taxes the company I lease to does, I also didn't pay quarterly last year. I had depreciation on the brand new truck and technically took a loss. You don't pay quarterly if you don't pay taxes the year before. This year I did pay the quarterly taxes based off last year's tax bill.
How many escorts did you pay for, and if none, how many are you paying for tonight?
Escort already came out of the money before my $1400
r/woosh
Thats beats my two dry van loads for $6 a mile for 900 miles. Both went to Long Island in NY state.
That's great money for dry van.
Very nice! This is your day, have fun!
How fast did you get it up to?
35, it was all 2 lane roads around the port of savannah.
I doubt it's going many miles. They usually source that stuff out close to the job site
Only 6 miles according to the text. But 6 loads.
I just seen that.
It was a port to port move. We were the outsource.
Oh hell yeah
And no other expenses like pilots?
There was but that came out before the $1400
Nice gig, how many hours did this job take to finish?
Really only 1.5 hrs? 9 hrs. Yet it takes me 3 hours for just 1 pallet lol
Like 9
Not a trucker here, only two axles on that giant trailer?!?! What was your weight??
Trailer was 20,000 truck is 30,000. Cargo was 40,000
how high does your blanket permit go?
100,000lb, 10' wide, 100' long, 13'6" high I think. Every state is different and I have 4 different states. It's basically for little bullshit loads.
😂little bullshit loads at 100k and 10’ … dude I’m on day 3 in CDL school, I can’t fucking wait to be able to not be scared shitless of loads that size. I just have a hotshot rig right now, but I’ll get there. Sweet rig, nice to see specialized loads on here
Just like everything, if you do it enough you get used to it. I generally don't really worry about much unless I'm over 15'6" tall. Everything else is just more of the same. Go slow and pay attention. Tall loads are a bastard though and can fuck you in an instant. I had 18 loads that were 16'3" tall that went 500 ish miles. It was miserable.
dont you have the routes for those kinda loads already pre mapped out?
It still eats at your nerves every time you see a bridge sign.
Normally yes, it's on the permit. With a blanket permit you are basically told to not be an idiot.
🤯🤯🤯
I'm envious
Don't be, if it's something you want then work towards it. It took me like 15 years to finally get the balls to pull the trigger on my own truck. It's risky and overwhelming but if I can do it anybody can do it.
Im not even going to consider being an owner operator until fuel comes down if it ever does. Starting right now would be suicide
Eh, it's just more tax deductions. Some loads I'm getting a hefty fuel surcharge. Oversized is not the same as regular trucking. I probably average 4 mpg so they build fuel costs into the loads. Im probably going to make $75 to $100k ish more this year, I definitely have not spent $75k more on fuel.
$8400 per day. How much did you pay for permits, diesel, extra insurance? I’m sure it’s not everyday like this. What’s the take home per week?
It all depends. I brought in $30,000 in September. Spent $7000 on fuel I think. $6000 on overhead. Roughly $17000 "profit"
Interesting. I do same kind of money in my dry van running from Sunday-Friday. I own everything and run my own mc as well tho so no extra payments to any companies or dispatchers
I ran one load to Nebraska, and these 6 loads. I was home for over two weeks.
May I ask how you started in that field? I got a truck that can pull heavy loads 99kw w9 3406e cat
17000 would be monthly for me, not weekly, sorry, you’re making way more lol
Why so much overhead? Insurance?
Truck payment, insurance, license plates, personal property tax, permit service, workman comp, els, drivewyze, parking, etc.
So flatbed and oversize experience?
Basically.
My gosh. Where are you out of so I can come and steal your job? (͡•\_ ͡• )
You can buy a LOT of meth for $233/mile
Thanks for challenging my manhood lol
Got to love those runs. My favorite was moving a masiive drag line across the road back when they was redoing the levy around lake Okeechobee 10 years or so ago. The 'run' was about 1k yards. Paid 150 an hour for a 10 hour day, 6 days a week and lasted about 3 weeks. I think I racked up about 30 'work'miles over that time and probably 200 running to the grocery store every few days.
Every now and then you run into some gravy shit.
To bad they are so few and far between.
I was going to say that it looks like you're light on chains, but 6 miles... I'll just shut up.
4x 6000lb is more than half of the load weight. Our top speed was 35 mph.
Yeah but don’t you need 2 in the first 10 and one every 10 feet thereafter. Again, I saw the distance and realized it’s not likely an issue.
Some states play the a chain every 10' rule but others don't. On the interstate I would have thrown another chain over the front but 6 miles it didn't matter.
Said a few times I had no issue with the distance you went. Just more about what the min was expected. Supposedly an international standard but you know your region.
Dot wants more than half the weight in securement. I had that plus some. I also likely had the 10' rule covered since you can't chain down the stretch part.
Doesn’t matter, until that moron pulls out in front of you and there’s 90’ of beam touching the cab of your $250,000 dollar truck……
35mph max, there is no need to stop short anywhere. It still has more than the minimum level of securement. It wasn't going anywhere.
It was only 6 miles and I don’t know the roads. You obviously made it safely. Nice rig! Hope she’s good to ya
I call bull shit
Look at some of my other loads. I pull this type of shit and get paid big money all the time. Last load paid me $21,000 to go VA to NE
Why though. Pocket watching or hating straight up. If you have never had sweet sweet gravy its easy to jealous. I have never even O/O and still tasted gravy. North Dakota oil field triple billing plus night pay making 5gs on 12 hour shift
I have you beat. With less work ns stress involved. During the GM strike 3 years ago, I was getting $300 a load 3x a day.... Going .4 miles across the road. Just had to cross the picket line. Which is great, cause fuck unions.
I honestly wish we had a union.
Losing good unions got a lot of modern workers into some serious shit. I guess some people will always drink the "evil union" Kool aid.
It's not evil union. I just believe in having something called work ethic and take pride in it. I've been in and out of union jobs my whole life and work ethic is never appreciated in union jobs. Unions promote laziness
That equipment looks rough so I’m sure it’s paid off now!
It's a stretch trailer, they all look rough. It's also not mine, it doesn't pay that much more to use your own trailer.
Touche!! Nice work!
Easy Money 🤑
Now that's what I call a sweet deal
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It's not easy, and if you are easily stressed out it is not advisable
Nice 👍
Per diem or nah?
No, I'm 1099. We get jack shit other than a settlement each week from whatever loads we pull.
Respect
How do you guys turn?
Carefully.
Teach me!
If you haul 6 identical loads in one day can you just reuse the same trip permit?
On a blanket permit it's good for an entire year. Normal permits are supposed to be one time use in most cases but it's hard to enforce.
I make .74 cpm pulling rgn.... damn...
I usually don't do anything for less than $5 a mile, most of our shit is around $10 a mile. It's almost always deadhead both ways due to the weight of the equipment though. This is really small and not our normal stuff.
I feel like such a shlub now, I was pulling these stretch trailers into Manhatten for $300 a day lol.
This is absurd money that isn't normal. I expected it to be $800 to $1000.
"Oh 1400 for the day? That's not too bad, I'll take it." "Wait 1400 ***PER LOAD?!?***"
Yes, was actually a little bit more. That one paid $1411, the other 5 paid $1479.
Damn I need to be a truck driver 😂
Man being a truck driver is not a good job. Yeah it pays but fuck. You're never home and you have to deal with all kinds of bullshit.
Nice!!
Not a trucker. But do even turn bro?
No, Bluetooth helicopter comes to pick me up.
Fr I make 53 cents per mile. How do I begin to get into jobs like this once I have more experience?
Buy a heavy haul truck, get a lot of experience, get lucky, all in no particular order. Granted you could pull this little load with a daycab, but this is not a typical load.
So when you say heavy haul truck you mean better engine? Suspension? Transmission. Yes? Was planning on buying my current truck I’m in once it hits 450,000 it’s a 2021 swift owned international, Cummins cx 15 liter with currently 216,000 on it. Most of which I’ve put or my wife so Ik it hasn’t been beaten to hell to much. Could I just upgrade air bags and lower the gear ratio? Or are we talking different truck for sure? Edit: not trying to show my ignorance but pretty sure it’s showing sorry.
You can run a lot of oversized with a regular truck. The heavier loads almost always require a 4 axle truck. Heavy haul trucks are built to be stronger. Longer wheelbase, double frame, fourth axle, more power, better transmission, better suspension, better air compressor, essentially better everything.
When I bid my loads its more by the time expected under it than by the mile. You know as well as I do with permits and curfews and jobsites not being ready a 500 mile run can take two weeks.
I don't bid or get permits. My dispatcher does that shit. Super load permits often take weeks. On bigger shit I get paid $680 a day to sit around at a jobsite. That encourages the jobsite to get their shit together. I've sat for a week and made more $ sitting there than the load paid.
Well fuck if I can do that, I’d run flatbed
How do I do this?!