hauling price

To look at your particular case. If you can find someone to haul it for you and deal direct with the truck owner you should expect to pay $1.00 to $1.25 per loaded mile plus a fuel sur-charge. That’s all the truck would get anyway even if you paid the higher broker price. They skim 25% off the top to find the truck for you. Fuel has gone from $1.00 to $2.15 a gallon in my area. At 6.5 miles per gallon that is a sur-charge of almost .18 per mile. (I think the rate is like .16 or .17 right now) But figuring it at .18 per mile that now puts you at $1.18 to $1.43 per mile. At 350 miles you are a short run so you will be closer to the $1.43 than the $1.18.

Getting some one to haul it for $.95 a mile is a gamble but if you find the right person to do it you may. A lot of these guys that haul tractors do it as a side line on the weekend and can not afford to stay out. They want to run from Kansas to Texas and right back to Kansas. Not back to Kansas via Maryland. You can use this to your advantage if you can find someone that has a haul from Texas to Kansas and is just looking for something to get him back home and be loaded both ways.

I can give you the name of a driver that hauls for Mayflower if you need it. He may or may not be in your area as he runs nation wide out of Wy. If he can not help you his broker could put it on the board but like I said that cost more. Reason I add this I have found it pays to have someone that trucks for a living and not a side line to haul my stuff. Liability; insurance and piece of mind knowing your tractor is going to show up at your house comes to mind.

(Disclaimer... No offence to you part time haulers but I have been burned before.)

I get $1.35 a loaded mile, with a $200 minimum. (In the Southern Indiana/Northern Kentucky area) John