How to bid accurately?

1. Find your operating cost.
2. Bid higher than the number found in step 1.

 

Plenty of bright people on you tube that will tell you how to get rich with a box truck.

 

Learn the lane you are on. Understand what the priority is to get that load shipped. Bid to make enough money to cover all your cost and set a daily goal to hit every time you are out on the road. Figure out your yearly cost and min days worked a year to get the daily rate.

 

@God prefers Diesels can tell ya all about box trucks.

Unless you already had steady customers lined up you kinda shot yourself in the foot with that one

What is your plan for it? I'm not trying to come off sounding like a dick but if you don't have any customers lined up already I would sell it asap. I imagine that niche market is even more of a bloodbath than regular truck load freight is right now. It's sounds like you have 0 experience and you picked the worst time to get in. That's a recipe for disaster.

 

You’d only be bidding if you have a destination that you have or feel confident you’ll have a secure load to go from. I’m sitting in Missoula, MT right now checking load boards because I had an iffy client pickup here. Took the risk and took a load board job here and his didn’t pan out, so most likely be dead heading home. I knew the risk and took it, and I’ll end up at $.52/mile since I bid a job to come to a place that I knew would most likely have nothing if the job I contracted to do here didn’t pan out. Right now, it seems companies are snapping up jobs on the load boards that don’t even cover fuel. If you’re trying to make a career out the box truck, going to have to put some serious hustle into getting clients who are not brokers. I flatbed, not box truck, but basic principals align. If you’re not over $2.50/mile for your truck and have risk on the end of not getting a new load, you better have some savings you’re willing to dig into. Good luck!