TRUCKERFAG THREAD

There's actually tons of gigs online if you own a straight truck or van just being an independent contractor and moving whatever the fuck people can't fit in their cars. Just go on CL and you will see 500 "Man with a Van!" ads.

Me

Farm2Fleet got bought out changed name to F2F.

Since I didn't get an answer in the last thread, TruckerFag what are the average rates for LTL? I'm making $1.80-$2.20/mile doing TL's but my lease company doesn't offer LTL. Is is possible to drive 2,000-2,500 miles a weeek, or are you sitting a lot? Could I make at least $3/mile driving that much a week 36-52 weeks a year?

It's called being an O/O and you can run as much or as little as you want. Don't expect weekend gigs but I do know people that will take a load out and a load back home and that's all they do once or twice a week. Don't expect to get rich though. Those people I know are "retired" and just do it to travel or pay for health insurance and stuff.

You need to work as a company driver for at least 2 years to be a O/O
Viable part time is not really a thing in this industry.

R8

You don't need shit but a truck and CDL to get your own authority user.

And you know, insurance and registering everything as a company and paying taxes and all that bullshit that comes with trying to do things by the book.

This is why I could never vote for Hillary even though I was scared when it looked like Trump might actually make into the race. It's so difficult for a guy to start his own business these days and actually make a living with some hard work. The gubbermint just chokes them to death.

He was meaning that you really need at least that amount of experience to begin have a clue about actually how to drive a truck and be effective instead of some waste of space like an England driver.

The Government expects people to wage slave until they're 50 to have enough money to get past all the red tape yet alone starting a business debt free.

You also need insurancet , and aint no company gonna insure at a rate where you can make money if you dont have 2 years in.
None of this is viable.
Possible? I guess if you are willing to lose a ton of money every single week then maybe but you will go broke fast.

Good luck trying to get a broker that actually has money to pay attention to you without at least two years experience.

Breddy gud.

Google owner operator trucking.
Or find your own gigs, guy I know ships and grinds wood waste from a lumber mill and sells the sawdust as animal bedding.

>bees on my truck
>bees INSIDE my truck

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Leave the window open when parked, and they'll leave. If not, pick them up on a sheet of paper and shake them off outside.

Assuming you're not still loaded with them. If you ARE, keep your fucking windows shut at all times, fuck the inside-bees. The fuckers outside will get in and dump wax and sticky shit over everything.
My first car was given to me after my grandfather died. He transported beehives in it, containing the bees through the simple expedient of keeping his foot hard down and flattening them onto the back window.
Every single surface, outside and inside, was COATED with wax and honey. The heater smelled of warm honey. The steering wheel had to be unjammed when I picked it up, because it was glued to the mounting.

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He gave you a typical superior asshole truckerfag answer.

>hauling cans with a pete

Memes/10.

There's a huge difference is budgeting your expenses on a $ per mile basis and having a more miles = more money mentality.

yournoteventrying/10

>not a KW

i cant paint the KW's in the game, the templates are fukt....

The sleeper on that truck is too many , good luck manuvering in tight space.

its comfy tho, and the length really is not an issue

People who drive houses are typically flat bed drivers and hardly ever back up. From the ones I've met at truck stops. People make room for them.

Having pulled a flatbed with a house, I must ask;
>u fokkin wot, m8?

the other day say a truck that had a cng engine, car how do they compare to diesel?

besides not being loud as fuck

To simulate how a CNG engine works in the real word, simply grab a lighter or anything else capable of making fire, and apply it directly to your wallet. As you watch the bills burn, just imagine that your handing them over to the service desk at a shop.

Congratulations, you've just learned what its like to own a CNG engine.

Yes it is.

Hey TF are you still with Big BB and his crew?

>call up W.W. Williams about a dual fuel CNG retrofit
>they have a specialist call me up the next day
>we have a 20 minute discussion about technical specs
>he's wrapping the call up
>ask for a ballpark price range
>$30k install
Wew, lads. Maybe on YBJ.

Yep. Still watching the doorswingers get unhinged while the flatbedders kick back and get plastered every weekend.

The dry van guys are the bulk of the business though right?
Are they gonna make it?

Back before they sold off our full service vending unit, we had a CNG or propane or whatever Frito Lay truck at the warehouse all the time. I'm assuming it didn't weigh a ton since bags of chips are light and I think the tractor was a single axle even with a 53' trailer behind it.

There is also some Volvo "Hydrogen Powered" Pepsi tractor that is at our plant sometimes and I believe that dude does regional runs so like Jacksonville to Miami and Tampa. It was parked one day and I was checking it out and it looked exactly the same as any other truck aside from the giant "Hydrogen Powered" greenpeace bullshit stickers. Then I was reading up online about them and it was something goofy where they only use the hydrogen a very small portion of the time and it runs like any other diesel truck 99% of the miles. Can't remember exactly how it went but it was a load of bullshit and just trying to trick normies into thinking this big company gives a shit about something other than profits.

Pic related is """hydrogen powered"""

>have a reefer that sounds like an orchestra of jackhammers
>9pm, hit a no-name truck stop with an enormous gravel lot
>park all the way in the back by my lonesome self
>there's like 8 trucks in a lot that could fit a hundred
>a few minutes later a tanker rolls in, all the way back and parks right up on me
>wtf

All but I think 5 of the 65. I figure at least 20 of them are going broke this year. Out of them, a few will have their lease terminated for shit behavior before they're bled dry.

Yep, that's how most dual fuel systems are set up. The system I looked up used "up to 75% CNG", and most of that was at cruising speed. At WOT it was 90% diesel with a bit of CNG to help complete the burn, but the injectors were trimmed enough so that you weren't seeing any additional power. A propane bottle actuated by the boost gauge would be more fun.

Some people sleep better with white noise like idling engines. Also, in gravel lots, it's considered polite to park next to another truck to reduce the chance of varying parking angles that end up reducing available parking as the lot fills up.

>He transported beehives in it, containing the bees through the simple expedient of keeping his foot hard down and flattening them onto the back window.
a time when men were made of sterner stuff

By that point, he'd survived WW2, multiple recessions, at least three heart attacks, and had retired twice, only to give up on it out of boredom.
He said that if he stopped working, he'd die. When he got too sick to work, he died within a week of his body just shutting down and giving up.
It's a shame he never liked me much.

Time for some more janky carpentry. Getting in over my head now with the joints, but at least I have a square this time.

Found a new favorite truck stop. JJs Benton Arkansas i30 x106. It's a shithole and the locals are decidedly methy but it's got like 10 acres of glorious mostly paved unlined never full parking.

Wew lad, you can do better than that. Try the Pilot at exit 5 off 23 or J&D's at exit 3 off 31 both in Michigan. Never seen either full, and they're pretty meth free.

>selling your soul to Swift
already there, senpai, sage

>Pilot at exit 5 off 23
it was nice and clean last time i was there.

Yeah but I'm in Arkansas. Now I have 3 places in AR I don't hate to park at.

My favoritest stop of all time is Midwest Oil on i44 in Cuba mo. Dem Dottie's burrito s

Could I make $6k a week gross doing LTL flatbed? I'm currently averaging $4k a week gross but want to make more and drive less.

Shiiii. I ran out of wood to finish this box, but I made the thing, even with a damn landstar canadian talking my ear off for 3 hours. Holds 9 binders and 4 chains comfortably. Once I get the lumber to finish this box I'll probably just keep my short chain and lose hooks under the binders.

>calculating on gross revenue
Why?

What's wrong with netting $4000 out of $5000 instead of grossing $6000 to net $3000?

That's cute. Let me back on your truck now plz

Get in the fucktruck lady.

Post pics.

>hence why I want to run less to NET more

I'm currently only NET $1,300/$4,000.

I consider all costs before NET (cell phone, food, health insurance, etc.) not just fuel and tractor/trailer related payments. So that $1,300 is basically spending money. But I want to make more without working more.

I can do multi stop loads but I don't think that's the same as what you're doing.

Go away

I would say if I only counted fuel and truck costs, my NET would be $2,600.

I don't know how you run your business to determine what your costs are, but I would be interested in a general explanation of LTL.

You really need to keep your personal and business expenses seperate. Figure out your personal expenses then break that out as a salary and transfer it to a personal account. I keep my personal salary at a flat $1000/week, and can do a draw from the business account add needed to keep my taxes simple.

The way I run LTL is I grab 4 loads around Chicago going to around Cleveland, kick those off, and do the same thing going back. Loads usually pay $300- $600 each, so that's $1200- $2400 on around 400 miles. It usually takes the bulk of a day to get all the loads on or off, but depending on how the markets are balanced I might end up taking a truckload back to the market I just came from which means I can be back in the hot market every 2 days.

You'll have to find a market and pace that works for you.

Thanks.

And I will try working out a better budget. I'm pretty fresh. Bought a cheap truck my Dad helped pick out (he's a diesel mechanic so that helps a lot). I mostly do a triangle and back home. Always try to hit Detroit. I mostly leave out of Virginia or North Carolina, down to Missouri/Alabama, up to Detroit/Toledo, then back home. Or in that general vicinity. But recently I've just been staying out weeks at a time booking 1 load ahead at a time. Racking up revenue but more miles != more NET.

I'm assuming you haul machinery. Can't imagine steel or lumber being LTL.

>drink redbull because i need to drive late tonight
>want shower so stop
>1 hour wait
>sitting around twitching like a mother fucker
>just want to drive

in other news i got stuck in over a foot of mud today and sat for 2.5 hours

witnessed

apparently the city dug down 12 feet, put in a new sewer line, back filled with gravel and the didn't pack it. and they didn't mark it or anything....

did you send the city the bill?

yes that will be happening

Real drivers don't need showers. Tbqh.

i left before it was my turn. i got shit to do bruh

Me too. Buy some babby wipes and scrub your asshole on your 15 min PTI. Must be nice to be able to stop and wait an hour for a shower at the local petro. I don't have time for that bull shit

Dat bitch on the hood is THICC

Any of you fags have info on Superior Carriers?

i put that thicc bitch on all muh truks

My 94 Mack transmission is about to blow I can feel it

But wouldn't those count as business expenses since they're tax deductible for your business?

My favorite in the 48 is Lisa's in moriarty, NM.
It's like the tiniest gas station C-store you've ever seen, with the tiniest little diner you can imagine.
But that food is fucking amazing, and it's a little ways off the main route so all the pilot/loves/TA monkeys don't clog up the lot.
>pic is all my preferred truck stops

>live in Indiana
>none in Indiana
FUCK. Guess I'll be asking for OTR all the time then.

Steel LTL pays decently, and when your running bundled bar you can usually fit 2-4 loads under one tarp and still have half the deck empty. There is lumber LTL out there, but I leave it fit conestogas since it's usually sub $1/mi, and nobody's throwing an 8ft tarp for that noise.

Shiii, I rolled through there on my way to Hatch to get some onions going to jew york. Booked a 4pm appointment 2 days out so I swung by a walmart the first night, then rolled down to Lisa's the second. Should have just eaten up a spot there both nights, but new food being a gamble, and them closing at night, I rolled down to a pickle park for the night in case of anal explosion.

>pickle park
what is, senpai

Did someone say ltl

>the gained 7 pounds since I started 3 months ago

Feels bad

Tarp that retard

What could cause a tanker scully to keep tripping by itself? I'm getting sick of telling a driver to keep fixing it

thats an old photo.

Tarp what?? The only thing needed tarred was tarped.

are you insinuating this isn't the norm for me? I've quit taking load pictures a while ago

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>tfw I can eat as much candy and McD's as I want and not gain weight
Kinda nice to not have to worry.

That just makes me feel worse

It sucks that I'm going to have to start jogging again. Especially after 10 or 11 hours of driving

How do you keep yourself and your truck not filthy?

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