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Lengthy... was a painful process explaining why a multi-million dollar terminal with clean facilities/nice showers, a good laundry room is not anything that I would ever look for nor consider to be the attribute of a "good company"... I went into detail on many of the questions posed. that...

Bill, I find these comments very amusing... LoL

Farm2Fleet bought them out. As far as the pay issues goes or has been going with sprinters at Whirlwind I'm positive that is something which will get addressed. That would be more Bill's area to comment on. Currently at F2F contractors have 2 choices on pay. Get paid every Friday, from the...

It's official as of yesterday - been in the works for some time. Great news for both companies and really exciting how this business model of F2F is shaping up. Things that were a relative weaknesses for F2F will become strong points over time now that Bill and Lauren are freed up to put much...

I rolled thru Huntsville around 3am this morning. You could see the glazed stretches where it was obviously slick. Saw a 4 car tangle at a merge ramp onto I-565. It was near the end of 565 just before it turns into US hwy 72. That particular section of the freeway has about a 3 mile stretch...

It's good to know I'm somewhat on par with others doing the same thing. I must be doing something right. While those numbers are above average 53' dry van I still think they are too low and need to be pushed up more. I see no reason why it can't be better next year. My contacts with regular...

Great year for me in a tractor trailer 53' dry van leased on to a company. First full year hauling spot market freight almost exclusively, hauled 1 contract load, 183 from loadboards. $2.19 a mile to the truck on 76,006 odometer miles 23% of which were deadhead. Did a mix of general freight...

What is good for a straight truck and what is bad? I don't know. All I've ever driven is big trucks. I do expedite with that and general freight too. That is what I know. However, I do have contacts who load up staright trucks too. I do know of one local straight truck expedite load that...

You totally miss the point. I don't need schooling on math. Math is the easy stuff. Planning 2, 3, or 4 moves ahead from booking that first one, contacting people touching base, actually pulling that off with spotmarket load after load and keeping steady moving is the real work.. Doing it...

That's funny right there, a tad obsessive compulsive, but funny nonetheless :-)

Sure enough John... They spend mega bucks recruiting when what they ought to focus on is recruiting business minded small business owners... The thing is a lot of owners don't understand just what it takes to get solid rates in trucking. I spend a lot of my 10 hour break studying, there's...

You're reading something into what I posted that I didn't post. Business and personal are seperate. My point is, if the business does not make enough money to cover all business costs, and all personal costs, then have money left over at the end... ....it is an unprofitable business... Not...

You do it with a fleet. There's money in numbers but not a lot and the margins must be razor thin on flat rates at best. Do you 1099 your drivers otherwise I don't see how it would be possible to scrape by, and I would not want to get busted by the IRS for that trick... I'm talking about a...

Then I see you are one of those drivers who considers 100% of any settlement check as all "profit". Profit is not what's left after fuel has been paid for driver. Profit is what's left after all fuel, insurance, plates, permits, maintinence, taxes and a reasonable comparible wage to that any...

Wow... and I thought many of the numbers I meticulously keep tabs on were overkill... Minutes at redlights and stopsigns is a new one - I am impressed!! I don't have the time to keep tabs on that though... LoL

Turtle, with percentage it is important, at least to my operation, to get a profitable rate on every load I haul. This means every load out and back in or all around or whatever I choose is going to a market I am familiar with KNOWING what I can get as a possible reload option before I even go...

There is NO profit in a flat rate based situation. You'll be pulling in break even numbers if you run a tight ship at best on a flat rate. Percentage of the linehaul is the only way for a one truck operation to make a profit and you need the ability to negotiate price on EVERY potential load...

Word just in from Bill Hood Farm2Fleet Trucking was nominated by 4 different drivers and we are finalists for this award. It's a little odd cause as far as I know I'm the only F2F driver who visits this forum, Bill sometimes does as well. I guess some of those other drivers found the link to...

A company that allows you to pick off whatever spot market freight from wherever you can find it for the lowest possible percentage is the best one. One that allows you to book and negotiate rates on your own loads. Also getting access to freight bills, which they are required by law to show...

I've made a few contacts via general freight loadboards of this kind of expedite. Not auto parts but consumer goods that must be moved in a hurry. The shipments I am running come in as air freight are loaded on my truck at 2am and delivered straight thru at 5:30am a 110 miles away. There are...