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Voices: Page 106

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Linda Caffee, FedEx Custom Critical
We might deadhead 1,000 miles for a 300-mile load. You look at the miles and the total revenue, and you make a business decision on that. Can you make money on that load?
June 19, 2013
Linda Caffee
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Tim Philmon, Landstar
I try to keep in the specialized area. You’re not having to sit in line on both ends.
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Get your load on! (4th edition)
Bee hives, portable grain bins on lowboy doubles, trackhoes in a dry van, and more photos of reader loads in the latest in this series. Find out how to send in your own here.
June 19, 2013
In mid-March this year, Chris Andreychik reports, “we moved 242 live beehives and about as many empty hives from Fort Myers, Fla., to Bristol” in the same state. For the purpose, “we utilized our 1979 Kenworth K100C,” better known to the haulers, with affection, of course, as “Brutus.” Their “boogie north” took place “in the wee hours of the morning so our cargo wouldn’t fly away. Only got stung once in the process!”
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Bob Barkley
Stay home………..
June 19, 2013
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Chuck Guintard
Money, my cost X 2 + fsc=rate!
June 19, 2013
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Lloyd Hoover
It has to moo, walk on, ride, then walk off at the end of the trail. Fuel $+.50/ loaded mile
June 19, 2013
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Tammy Mosley Riggs
Knowing what your operating cost is per mile … Just because a load has a good “loaded” per mile rate ..doesn’t make it a good load.
June 19, 2013
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Eric Mende
That is kind of an open ended question. One, it would depend on your niche, whether you are leased or completely independent etc. I have taken loads for a customer out of FL to Winnipeg MB and bounced back to them for instance. If you sit around waiting on the perfect load, you are losing […]
June 19, 2013
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Tim Cowett
If your not turning, you’re not burning , just saying !
June 19, 2013
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Kim Behne
It depends what your hunting.
June 19, 2013
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Barbara Ann Odom
Depends on what you are hauling
June 19, 2013
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Luke Atwell
Ltl driver. I run loaded or empty pays the same home every night
June 19, 2013
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Adrian Bendich
Variety, scenery, pay, and the least traffic route
June 19, 2013
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Adam Makowski
Ignore the cheap ones and you won’t have any
June 19, 2013
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Paul Jones
$2 a mile or better if u want to make money
June 19, 2013
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Antu Banerjee
Adjust your headlight position when you are loaded
June 19, 2013
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Chico Bennett
nothing under two dollars a mile.
June 19, 2013
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