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Yeah, the reality is more like half those numbers. The owner ends up with about $1800 a month, out of which comes the van payment and maintenance.

Yeah, I think you have the right plan and attitude. After a year you'll know if that carrier is for you, and more importantly you'll know what you want and don't want out of a carrier. Try and keep your unpaid miles as low as possible. That includes deadhead to a pickup, after delivery, moving...

Considerably. Anywhere from 8-44 MPG depending on vehicle and usage. A couple of years ago the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute did a pretty exhaustive study and analysis (commissioned by Robert Bosch) where they compared the difference between gas and diesel in similar...

Well, Joey Votto is. :D

Oh, I know, but that's not really a "customer" problem, that's a "whoever booked it" problem. If the carrier doesn't want to charge a particular customer for detention, that's up to the carrier, and it's between the carrier and the customer, but if the carrier wants me to do the waiting past the...

cargo vans

Yeah, trucking will do that to ya. :D

Always

You should probably do A LOT more reading before you do much more posting. If you do that, and you pay attention while doing it, you'll see that calling other members names will be met with consequences that won't benefit you or your career. I don't think it would behoove you to put yourself in...

One million dollars. I'm a moron. I really don't know, but I would think it's about 40 cents a mile.

The duck tape angle just cracks me up. High Speed Duck Tape Always carry a roll of duck tape. Duck me! Shouldda duck taped it. Blocking... Check Bracing... Check Chains... Check Duck tape... Oh crap

Alberta is the anti-Ottawa wild child of the Provinces.

Because I'm a moron. Did you not pick up on that? Having to log. I want to be able to sleep where and when I want/need to, rather than be pounded into a mold created for the general trucking industry by a group of pencil pushers with their own job-justifying agendas, most of whom have never...

Actually, what he said was, "I'm currently 22 years old and have been in the trucking industry for over 8 years believe it or not."

Generally speaking, it's about $. 90 to $1.00 a mile, depending on the cost of fuel and the fsc.

It's a long running joke, since you have to be a moron to drive a van in expediting. Lol With dual citizenship, you can do point to point runs in both countries, so that'll be a big benefit.

I'll let the straight truck people respond with better information than I can as a moron van driver, but it may depend on whether or not you plan on doing cross-border expediting, since you are from London, Ontario, which may be an important context.

I also learned that if dispatch says start rolling, and I do, and then the load cancels, if my wheels have started rolling, even if I haven't made it out of the parking lot, I get dry run pay. :D I don't routinely show up more than about 15-30 minutes early, sometimes as much as an hour. After...

True. But I well remember with Panther that if you're on the fringes, you'll sit, but you're still more likely to get those 3 loads that week and end up with 1500 miles or more for the week. Sitting in that Midwest hell Bullseye and you can end up with 500 miles for the week on those three...

Steel rolls...