I do understand the low ball award and acceptance of same to just keep your doors open, your people working, but eventually it will bite you in the @ss ! LOL Now for a larger operator, they might be able to take the peak highs and lows, but not the small guy.
I had been driving for a long time farmer friend, part time 2nd job and one of the things I was hauling was sawdust & grindings from local sawmills, for calf bedding at a 2000 head farm which is a valued customer of his. Sawmill charged $300 at one place, load was heaped, and about 40 cu yards, another place I think charged a little more, this sawdust is high in demand and low in supply, hard to get. The load paid crap, $450-$475, dairy would absolutely not pay any more. Tandem axle DM Mack, sileage/grain body, photo below.
Insurance, fuel, driver pay, repairs and maintenance, are costly items, when said and done, it has been awhile, I tracked fuel, mileage, driver pay (I worked cheap as a favor and knowing how little the job paid) Fortunately, I did not blow any tires, he did fairly often before health issues kept him out of the seat, trans dropped a bolt inside the case, myriad of other things, do you continue like this, not worth it at all, one lousy big ticket item, say D.O.T. inspection, truck was well maintained too, you lost your @ss. He gave up that run, hay & straw to the same customer pays a lot better, more of a cushion when things go wrong and they do often. I disagree, you keep going to keep your truck rolling, driver has a job, and your business open, yet every time you do one of these low profit loads, something goes wrong, you lost quite a bit. Now this is a small operator, but that is what we are talking here, larger operators diversify more, run more, and can justify late model equipment based on higher sales volume, the small guy can't, I disagree for the small operator, you have to be really careful of the work you take. Fun for discussion though, everyone deals with this problem, hard to quit too ! LOL
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