ND Angus
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Just a few #'s for ya . On the AVERAGE year we run about 2800+ miles a week hauling anhydrous, ( some weeks more some weeks less) at $4.25 a mile is around $11,900 a week X 8 weeks is only $95,200 before expenses . Take out the expenses and you've made a good chunk of change. This year there was quite a bit more hauling to do and why I don't know. I'm just giving #'s for an average year, but use these same #'s but use 16 weeks instead and you still come up with some cash after expenses.
At one point in time about 7years or so ago the trucks were barely making their payments. We ran cattle and farmed in the summer and drove over the road with them in the winter. We did haul some good paying loads only to lose that money hauling a load just for fuel to get moving or to get home or even worse was bouncing empty to get a load that only paid fuel. Things needed to change and that is exactly what we did. We changed our way of doing business with the trucks. They have been very profitable since, we even have up graded to newer trucks. We no longer do over the road, it was a loosing game.
Many people in our home town have wondered the same thing you are .. how do they do it. Why haul for just fuel or just a payment . You can bet if our trucks are moving they are making cash! I see it getting tougher this next year do to the cost of fuel, but our trucks are paid for and are not our main source of income so they can sit.
We have donated our trucks time and fuel to help out after Hurricane Katrina. We hauled sheet rock from North Dakota to New Orleans to help rebuild churches. We also have donated our time and fuel to haul donated food to Churches on different Indian Reservations through out the country. I my opinion our trucks income has been blessed. The good Lord knows he's going to get it back in time of need.
At one point in time about 7years or so ago the trucks were barely making their payments. We ran cattle and farmed in the summer and drove over the road with them in the winter. We did haul some good paying loads only to lose that money hauling a load just for fuel to get moving or to get home or even worse was bouncing empty to get a load that only paid fuel. Things needed to change and that is exactly what we did. We changed our way of doing business with the trucks. They have been very profitable since, we even have up graded to newer trucks. We no longer do over the road, it was a loosing game.
Many people in our home town have wondered the same thing you are .. how do they do it. Why haul for just fuel or just a payment . You can bet if our trucks are moving they are making cash! I see it getting tougher this next year do to the cost of fuel, but our trucks are paid for and are not our main source of income so they can sit.
We have donated our trucks time and fuel to help out after Hurricane Katrina. We hauled sheet rock from North Dakota to New Orleans to help rebuild churches. We also have donated our time and fuel to haul donated food to Churches on different Indian Reservations through out the country. I my opinion our trucks income has been blessed. The good Lord knows he's going to get it back in time of need.