Considering hauling some cattle for a guy for a short 40mi ~1hr trip. Whats the going rates for something like this? I got an idea for long hauls but whats fair for something like this?
Can I come haul for you? $2.25 here$4 a mile
$5 mile?$200 minimum
Glad you can afford to do charity work and i do plenty for people i know but this is a job per the OP. When i am charging it is a job for me as well and how i make a living, hard to feed 4 kids not charging a dime and i promise you at that rate you wouldnt be rich but may have a few dollars of spending money at the end of the week. I burn over $1,000 a month in fuel before tires, repairs and replacement costs. That is likely to soon be a much higher number as fuel continues to climb.I would be rich at the rates most of you would charge. In the last 2 weeks I hauled 4 loads about 20 miles one way coming out of the hills. And a load 65 miles to the sale. Didn't charge a dime. But I did have one pair involved. The cow went to the sale along with 6 other cows and a bull. The calf came home accompanied with about 79 other calves.
How big is your truck and trailer?
$200 minimum if it's a job.
$100 if for a buddy.
I haul a lot of "mixed" loads of market cattle. i.e. Bob has 1 mrkt cow, Bill has two fats, John has a mrkt bull, ect. Then I change $60/ a stop. They all end up at the same sale barn, I usually have one of my own mixed in on a load. It saves me from hauling 1 hd 50miles, pays for my gas, and the inevitable stop at McDonald's on the way home that keeps the kids happy.
A big difference in this hauling. If he is happy with getting them delivered he very well might be a repeat customer on buying more cattle from you in the future. I would probably do that hauling for 5-600.So what would you charge to take 10 heifer & 2 bull calves 333 miles one way? I will have to add that I sold these calves to the person that I am hauling them for. He wants me to bring them to him.