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Originally Posted by scollins
So it is "$1.00 mile loaded". You get a load just under the premium kick-in, and it is 50 miles away from the pick up location. The pick up location is 10 miles from you. So, round trip you are looking at driving 120 miles to make $50. Assuming you could cover all that distance in 2 hours, you are making $25/hour gross.
For sake of easy math, let's use the IRS's figure for the cost to operate an average car per mile ($0.50/mile.) Driving 120 miles in theory costs you $60 (120 miles at $0.50/mile).
You just lost $10......
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correct with that scenario...
rotating drivers into position for pickups such as the one described above will only frustrate the driver...obviously...however giving the company the benefit of the doubt, i also assume that there will be other runs in the same shift that might outweigh the given scenario above...
what if you call dispatch and you have a free saturday and you dont mind driving...you tell dispatch you are available from 8am to 6pm...(this is all hypothetical but still very possible)...you devote 10 hours to driving and in those 10 hours of driving you accumulate 500 miles...(assuming you are not driving the entire time but the time you do drive you are doing a solid 75 mph)
thats 50gross and maybe 40net per hour...or even 35 net per hour...
is it worth it then? 35 an hr net? if you assume 35an hr net is equivalent of netting 280 a day/1400wk/72800yr....based on 8 hr days, 5 days a wk all year...and basing this on the simple idea that you will never have down time
im guessing that its only worth it unless you can get long distance work over the course of your shift...and you will only find out if you have long distance work if you actually take the position as a courier...
a catch 22
a paradox of the 13th dimension
what would yoda do?