O/O Rates - What is your rate?

For short haul (5 axle hi boy ) I charge the pump price of a liter of fuel per km + $70.00 an hour from when i leave my yard till I get back.
Prolly doesn't help you much .
6 axle gravel is about 120.00/ hour
loggers here run way to cheap 109.00/hr 7/8 axle (dumb)

 

$10-$13 per loaded mile for 8 axle lowbed pilot car not included.

 

You can't be serious, you pay $1.16 for fuel?! Are you hauling lumber or chips or something? The last company I was at, I made $1.31 per mile, and I paid $0.62 for every liter of fuel I bought, and I didn't pay plates either, the company did. I paid an extra $70 a month to bump the insurance value over what the truck was worth in case of a write off. I paid $200 a month for a kick ### blue cross plan that gave dental, eyecare, prescriptions, 100% covered in the U.S for any injuries no matter how severe or slight, and if I was injured bad enough to require time off of work, the plan would have payed my truck payment as long as time off was required by the doctor.

Why did I leave you ask? A woman....let's just leave it at that.

 

Why do we do anything stupid? It's always because of a woman.

 

No no, not hauling containers.

That was for the company I USED to work for, in Saskatoon, SK. I was hauling step deck freight. I did well last summer actually. I averaged 8 MPG every month, $1.31 per mile, every liter of fuel I bought, did not matter where in North America, I always paid the same, 62 cents per liter. I did about 12,000 miles per month, and took home between $0.95 and $1.02 per mile. The other thing to remember is, my loading and unloading was paid, and my truck insurance was paid for by the company, things you pay Sinistar.

Now the sad thing is, that still is not enough. With current maintenance costs, parts going up, labor going up, everything going up except rates.

While I routinely blame the girlfriend as the reason for selling my truck, in the same token I thank her for it! To sum it up, I have had enough of this ####. Of us being underpaid. You can't rent a small backhoe from a backhoe company for under $300 an hour. Yet you can rent a full size semi with a dump trailer for half of that....something is seriously wrong with this picture.

 

bro, the rates in alberta are six times higher and you never go back empty unless youre going home for the weekend and refuse to load, youre getting raped hard, or lying on the forum....

 

tomorrow morning im dropping off a load of untarped lumber. 400 km trip pays 900, thats backhaul, so i dont drive empty, then at the same place im loading lumber untarped transporting it about a 100 km for 9 dollars per mile. then loading there and taking a tarped load 300 k for 1000 dollars. thats not even two days of work for almost 3 grand gross. my provincial in surance costs 250 dollars per month.