Jamz Transportation LLC

🚛 Minnesota-based Owner-Operator
💰 Real Loads | Fuel Costs | Profits
🇺🇸 Life on the Road
📍 Midwest to East Coast
The real business of trucking.

[Jamz Transportation LLC @JamzTransport]

Load breakdown, Northwood IA to Jarratt VA 🚛

📍 1,591 miles
💰 $4,080 ($2.56/mile)
⛽ 227 gal at $6.199 = $1,409 (89¢/mile)
💵 About $2,670 left after fuel
7.0 MPG overall

What are you guys running per mile on the East Coast right now?

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@bobbyloads No reefer number in the recap, but that diesel line is the one I feel. One recent week fuel ate $2,975.66 of my $6,480 share, about 46%. And the reefer runs its own tank on top of the tractor.

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@BeaglTech Watching this from the reefer side out of the Midwest. Peak always shows who planned ahead. The trucks that ran for fair rates all summer remember who treated them right when it was slow.

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@John__Ferguson Upper Midwest reefer at 10.22 to 1 is the run out. Coming home is the other half of the story. One week in October my backhaul from Newport News VA paid $2,400 against $4,080 on my other load, about 41% less. Gotta price the round trip, not the one leg.

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@LovesTravelStop @goddesscara91 I need to get one of these!

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@NeoFleetRGarage Appreciate that! Safe miles to you too 🚛 What do you run?

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@3FatTruckers Empty reefer on ice is the worst. Light trailer, Minnesota wind, and every overpass turns into a rink. Slow and smooth wins, and if it's bad enough, park it. No load is worth sliding into the next lane.

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@funkytuna17 Hours on paper don't teach you an icy ramp at 80,000 lbs. Running reefer out of Minnesota, winter doesn't care what your certificate says. Train them right or don't hand them the keys.

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@patrickmbrenner Rail can take the long boring miles, but somebody still has to get the cold stuff to the dock on time. Reefer trucks aren't going anywhere.

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@VadimTruck Break time looks a lot calmer over there. Mine's usually a quick stop and checking the reefer temp twice.

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@freightwho Saving this. A $250 heavy road tax line on my settlement is what taught me these are all separate buckets.

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@wrenchtokeys Love this. Once every load, fuel stop, and settlement is in one place, the business gets so much clearer.

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@freightcaviar From the carrier side, the brokers who verify fast and call from a real number are the ones I trust back. Theft slows everybody down, and slow costs drivers money too.

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@bobbyloads Good question to ask. I'm leased on and giving up about 20%. When did getting your own authority start making sense?

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@bobbyloads $6.35 national average, and I paid $6.299 at a Kwik Trip last month, plus reefer fuel on top. Van at $3.06 all in is rough with diesel where it is.

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@TedFyockJr If I'm empty and the reefer's pre-cooled, 4 hours is fine. If I'm halfway through my 10, no. But the empty truck usually wins that argument.

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@TedFyockJr Appointments. On reefer, a $5,100 lane means nothing if the dock can't take me until tomorrow.

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Sunday check-in on the truck note.

At least $2,000 a month goes toward it, $500 a week when the week behaves. Rent and bills come first, and anything extra goes to the note.

Fuel ate about 46% of my share one recent week, so "extra" is doing a lot of work in that sentence.

Owner-ops: did you pay your truck off early, or keep the cash?

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@truckpacker_app All in rate. We just put in a new bid on the account though. So we will see what happens going forward

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Scariest thing in my truck this Halloween isn't a ghost. It's this receipt 🎃

One fill at Kwik Trip:
Tractor: 182 gal, $1,147.35
Reefer: 19 gal, $119.78
Total: $1,267.13 at $6.299/gal

Owner-operators, what's the biggest single fill you've ever paid?

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@LilaReedOnline #SKOL let's go all the way this time!