Anybody that can run a truck for 1.20 a mile with no fuel surcharge is loosing money. Your post doesnt say where the truck came from or if anything else was on the truck,or anything.The only way you are going to get less than 2.00 a mile for a tractor trailer is if something else is on the truck.In my figures cutting it to the bone,with no deadhead charge was still a dollar and seventy seven cents.The only way a truck could do that is if they had good pay getting there. I know trucking inside out and sideways and you wont get a tractor trailer to run empty out to nowhere land in Kansas and get a tractor that may need to be hunted down,and then haul it to Missouri,where he cant get a load out of probably,for 1.20 a mile.When you find a company that will do that its probably the last time because they will be broke soon. I dont think you can even get a hot shot for 1.20 a mile.I would say it will be a lot closer to 2.50 a mile than 1.77 that I figured with a fuel surcharge because there will be some empty miles.You just cant run anywhere without getting paid because the price of fuel will eat up your profit and you will be broke. Now the 3.50 and 4 dollars are just too high,but it all depends on what you are hauling.Back in the 1980s they got 3 dollars a mile for oversized loads and fuel was a dollar a gallon and that included a flag car which got a dollar a mile out of the 3 dollars a mile. If the trucker has to wait a day or 2,and if he has problems like gets stuck or cant get the thing started and has to have it winched up on there and all kinds of other things I cant think of,it will be more money.Maybe people that do this want 3 dollars a mile,I could sure see why.My guess would be that 2.50 is close to what it will cost about everywhere.The only way for cheap is to share the load with something else or a truck company wants that truck thats in the area in a different area quickly.
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