I turned in that Swift lease truck and got myself a truck from Lone Mountain and signed on to small carrier for an 80/20 split driver negotiates and books all loads and just submit rate cons, fuel receipts, and BOL in for pay the next day. Never run the spot market before but I’m making more money than I ever did at Swift and each week that passes I get a little better at booking my loads.
Conversate. George Bush Texas School of American, lol😂.. thanks for all the schooling I really like your show. Company driver thinking about joining the independence real soon. Thanks again for all you do.
People are going out of business because they don't have big monetized TH-cam channels and are socialmedia famous...They don't know the right people, (brokers) who are ethical...They are only stuck with big brokerages who don't negotiate and apps that bs with rates and lying about how much they can pay...And lastly, most shippers don't want to deal with a carrier with one truck and trailer and would rather deal with a fleet...And a lot of brokers don't want to negotiate...I've kept my W9 in the good lanes, no truck and trailer payments, and still have considered calling it quits after 22 years and last 10 as an owner operator with 8 month old authority...My break even is $1.88 based on my own expenses and hardly get anything at $2.00...So this whole industry has turned into a charade and rat race and won't miss it if I decide to throw in the towel...
Lmao I feel your rant bro. But let me add, the brokers I deal with know nothing of my TH-cam channel. I’m just another carrier. Also, I do make some money from TH-cam but, the examples I give in this video are booking one truck on what I’ve been averaging per week running. $15-20k per that truck monthly. Notice how my TH-cam money isn’t factored into that equation 👌😎
Everyone has the ability to change. How many calls did you make today soliciting YOUR customers or trying to find more Direct Customers. Whining about brokers is easy, how many people put in the daily work of getting out of that failing broker rut ????
I don’t know but we need a whole lot more to out of business! There’s more trucks then freight and whole bunch of steering wheel holders that have no business driving a truck!
We're flooded with millions of new Biden voters that think working for $50/day is rich in their 3rd world countries. This is the result of Toxic Democrat policy
I had to park my truck for a little bit due to some unforeseen some health and home issues but I'm looking to be back out on the road soon. I'm fortunate that my truck and trailer are paid for.
Driven 35 years. CB RADIO has LITERALLY SAVED MY LIFE AND OTHERS BEFORE! One time I remember I was going east on I90 coming out of Austin, Mn. around a curve and someone had yelled over radio that a pickup truck pulling a camper had lost its drive shaft in the left hand lane and was sitting there stalled. Driver and passenger were bolting out waving their arms. Had I not heard this ahead of time I could have KILLED THEM AND MAYBE MYSELF. Like it when people can warn me about gators, deer, turkeys, school buses, farm machines ect.
Above all, Sammy, I believe you succeed because you have the right attitude. You hold yourself accountable. When the market dips, you're not out here crying and whining and blaming everyone else. That seems to be the common thread between the owner/ops who can survive the hard times.
They can’t hear the CB with there earbuds in anyways, plus they got their foot up on the dash of that Volvo or Cascadia so reaching the microphones kind of awkward for them😂😂
My radio is always on, it’s crazy how many times I’ve tried to warn the other side of a pile up and then see on the news how bad it got after I called it out for 40 miles. Trucking is always going to go up and down - the game is to save when it’s up to coast when it’s down.
Another big part of it that I feel some people are ignorant about is how they buy there fuel. Besides insurance and fixed cost fuel is our #1 biggest expense, and how you buy your fuel over time could break the bank.
It’s called good karma or lifeforce energy. It’s the energy a man carry’s in his dna 🧬. That’s what “luck” 🍀 is. As a man travels the world he is protected by it unknowingly. In business and in life.
That’s some deep understanding I’m super happy you brought up 😎🙌 That’s how I live my life. Life gives you what you give! It’s a simple understanding but the majority won’t believe it, so… they step on each other not knowing what they do to others, they also do to them selves 🙌🙌
I don’t see how or why anyone would want to lease their equipment to someone who is taking money off the top of depressed rates and then charging all of their incidentals on top of that plus you’re under their thumb. I do my own thing damn them folks.
Believe it or not , we have too many dmb truckers. They lease because they think it is easy to run a business with someone’s “ help” little they know is that those companies make them pay for everything and also slave them . Those lease drivers are destroying this industry . Because of those dmb truckers , companies can monopolize cheap freight !!
Yeah some of the folks these guys lease to are straight crooks. Problem is that most of these guys don’t know the difference. If someone is taking 25% off the top plus plates,insurance, escrow accounts, IFTA and on and on it’s no surprise so many go bankrupt. The only ones making money are the ones they’re leased on with. Too many folks I think just don’t do the math or just don’t know what things cost that they’re paying these crooks for.
Hey Sammy, good to see you, brother👍👍👍 I think some of these guys don’t know their CPM. You gotta know that you don’t know what you’re doing in the first place.👍👍👍
In bad economy try to stick more with food freight. People can only go so long with out food. Flatbed freight will always suffer first in not so good economy. HOPPER BOTTOM, TANKER, might pay better because it is more specialized and wash outs are required and risk of contamination. Much more responsibility is required with hopper bottom and tanker freight. Also some bigger pay for hauling livestock due to animal health and disease of course. Sad but I have hauled some haz mat that did not pay any better than general freight.
They dont realise communication will save their life and others. The cb has saved me twice. If you have the cb antennas only inches from your cab your not getting the amount of reception and transmission capacity you need. I found my self in fog with freezing conditions. I tried to tell the schneider and others that they were coming into a crash and traffic was fully stopped. I heard later that there were fatalities. If they had a cb radio they would be alive and saved others. Buy a great stock radio that offers the bells and whistles. I like the galaxy 959. It has features to keep you aware. Get two antennas. Mount them on the upper Outside western mirror mount. Newer trucks make a sturdy mount for each siide. Live longer.
I dont use a cb anymore because im a company driver and been in 15 different trucks in 3 years. Would get a loaner truck without a cb and would just wait it out until my truck was out of the shop. I just get lazy and tired of hooking it up and moving antennas. Then let the truck be a different model now you got to buy $64 antenna brackets. Ive got 6 cb radios and a bunch of antennas at the house though chilling in the garage. For the guy why owns his truck or is OTR in the same truck for 5 years yea you should have a cb
Hey Sammy a lot of companies are not allowing CBs in your truck now. They call it a distraction. Your not allowed to talk on your phone and drive by some
1. Over-leveraged. Into the business tipped from jump. Funded with debt rather than profit. 2. Starry eyed. Trying to keep up with the Jones. Bad advice, talked into more debt. 3. Low bid was at one time just common sense. But now seems like a broadening campaign for a cheapy weepy rate market across the board. 4. Lopsided freight to driver ratio, and bidded freight going on the load boards rather than awarded to lowest biddder. 5. Too many greedy hands in the pot. Any entity even remotely affiliated with trucking have raised the cost of operating to difficult and unattainable levels. 6. Milk toast oversight, regulatory and Law enforcement. Blind eye, look the other way. "not my job."
I think it’s the person spending habits. I used to work I.T in the oil fields those Foreman and PM were making money so they were buying 90k trucks and expensive houses that was a bit more than they needed. The oil tanked people got layed off then they tried selling those over priced trucks. So I think the same is happening in trucking instead of saving majority then spending they spend as it comes in
I sold my 2012 Kenworth T800 in 2022 for what I bought it for in 2019 I'm thinking about reinstating my authority in March purchasing a used working truck not a show truck and a used reefer or dry van, I will be a low budget operation like I was running before. I sold my truck because my mom had cancer and I needed o stay home with her,. Not because I wasn't making money
So many places in this country have some audio recording that starts playing when someone keys up their mic. I was playing around when I heard the Walmart parking lot guy. When it stops playing all you got to do is push the button and the recording starts over again. People are tired of hearing that shit
1 thing though, just because there’s more loads doesn’t mean they’re better loads. I have access to the spot market boards and our rates kill the open market because we have such a good customer base …..just my 2 cents
then they take 30% plus a flatbed rent .. i talk to landstar', mercer, crst guys and after they take their cut, they are making the same or less then me on the spot market. if you are making as much as you claim then buy your own flatbed 😂😂
@@TheDriller100 😂😂😂😂 always an expert somewhere🙄, you know if I wanted my own trailer I’d just go down and buy one, but it’s financially better for me to rent this one, but I’m not gonna waste time explaining it to somebody who thinks they already know everything so you do you and I’ll do me You also conveniently left out all the expenses. Someone has running under their own authority that I don’t have like insurance!!!! Oh, one other thing, kiddo I’ve had my own authority before, so I know which side of the fence is better 😉
I personally think money was to good a couple years back and people got comfortable/based lifestyle on the good times. Bunch of covid truckers going out
See that’s what I been thinking is why so many go out. Like someone said in the comments there personal expenses are more than the current market rates. So I believe I can make it in this market because my monthly expense 4k a month
I’m doing ok. I pull super B’s and also own a 50 ton lowboy. I’m finding my sweet spot in the LTL market regionally. Be very lucky with the carrier I have my equipment leased on to has a sharp dispatch department. I set my benchmarks of what I’m looking to make (minimal) and they hit home runs a lot of the time. Welfare is always one F’up away so my advise is stay alert.
Simple to many people don’t have a business mindset meaning if you have a shit tons of bills and another thing people panic on fueling learn to properly read it
People going broke because they haul cheap freight.. I run my radio( ex bullhauler) Games... not on my phone... but I do play virtual reality games.. love vr airplanes
I just read the thumbnail and it’s easy .. Guys like you take all the cheap freight you can just to stay in business and to do your you tube shenanigans while the ones that refuse to haul cheap loads would rather park it before they touch cheap freight !! And if that means going out of business for the sake of morals and standards then so be it i have much respect for the ones going that route !!!!!!
These Foreigners are driving class A with work visas. The Government's not enforcing the rules in Trucking. I see more Foreigners than Born Americans mostly on the road. The eyes don't lie.
@@MakeCentsTrucking yeah 36k of cheap paid miles next year you will find yourself running 50k miles making the exact same keep it up..I’m in the flat bed side so as long as you stay over there keep running all the hard and cheap paid miles you want 🤙
@@johnf1441that’s good. I hope you keep making the same and do well at what you do 😎 and I’ll keep doing what I’ve been doing. I just don’t understand why someone takes it personal on what I do vs what you do? I want us all to win 😎
I thought the more loads you cover for a broker the more money he would pay on next load. However to my surprise it's exactly opposite. The more you book the more they take you for granted. 😢
QUESTION ; How many of you have called at least 4-5 Businesses a day trying to add direct customers?? I find very few "O/O" that actually run a trucking business like a real business and that's probably the #1 failure causation the last few years. START CALLING DAILY and get direct customers, you'll be just fine after gaining 20-50% higher rates by cutting Brokers out 💪♥️
🙌🙌🙌🙌 you can make it on spot if you know how and what to do. A direct is night and day difference. I do both. Trying my bestest to work my second truck into 100% direct specialized
MakeCents makes about enough money on TH-cam to go out once a month and buy a cheeseburger at McDonald's for himself.. He makes his money with trucking, not TH-cam..
@@MakeCentsTrucking I had a terrible week on during 4th of July. $5300. After truck/trailer payment I spent so much on fuel I brought home $300. Following week after I saw this video and decided to slow down, I made $4800 ( another bad week) to the truck , but I brought home $850. I cruise at 62mph as long as my hours let me. So thanks for the example.
So, if I can make $20k per month with one truck, the one I drive. Not including my other truck. You’re saying I’m making it because my of TH-cam channel? Your thinking has no argument here. My TH-cam channel doesn’t account for what I do trucking.
@@MakeCentsTrucking I make it because I have everything pay off but when things brake it is tight staying I live after paying for repairs and I drive a flatbed wish gets pay a lot more than dry van.
@@elpapatruckingllc8827ok but your still missing my points. My home is not paid for, my wife’s 4Runner is not paid for and I have many debts but my trucking earning still cover it all. Btw my current TH-cam earning is $234 for the month lol
@@MakeCentsTrucking yes I understand that it is still doable as long and the truck doesn’t have any big repair or problems that could put you out for a week or two. I have two trucks my wife who drives one and me. We survive but I know there is a lot of people that are having a very hard time and any rock in there path could end everything.
2 trucks is not hard, try to maintain and dispatch 10 trucks plus 16 trailers then you would think different. So don't bragg until you get bigger in the game
Sammy, I don’t turn on my cb because of the nasty side of it like the h o m o dudes who are advert the nasty. Also, no one will respond 8/10 times. Immature adults cussing each other for hours. CB for me not worth it. I only turn on in the winter when I’m in the midwest and northern states.
@@MakeCentsTrucking Money that you make and never have to put back into that business *CLEAN CLEAR MONEY* . If that is not clear enough , how much money would you need to make on a regular job which taxes were taken out , and where you had no expenses , to be the same equivalent to what you are making now ?? , *BOTTOM LINE CLEAN CLEAR MONEY*
@@MakeCentsTrucking Have you given it any thought ? . Although I am familiar with the trucking business , that is a question that applies to *ALL* for profit businesses , especially the ones that want to be honest with themselves . What is really taking place in *REAL TERMS* Mr. MakeCentsTrucking ????.
(M/35) I’m a new apprentice in the carpenters union working in Boston. I’ve always wanted to drive a truck though but never got my cdl. I want to make the jump but don’t know if it’s worth it. Any advice?
@smokeclouds8 trucking is top five in risk. so its up to you if you want to risk your life like that. if you have a chance, find a trucker to ride along for a week, and see the driving from inside the truck.
@chrisbelsito4231 yea but there's company's that will fire you in a heart beat for having a cb in their truck, don't ask me why because like you just said it is a very important tool to have in a semi
They can’t hear the CB with there earbuds in anyways, plus they got their foot up on the dash of that Volvo or Cascadia so reaching the microphones kind of awkward for them😂😂
I turned in that Swift lease truck and got myself a truck from Lone Mountain and signed on to small carrier for an 80/20 split driver negotiates and books all loads and just submit rate cons, fuel receipts, and BOL in for pay the next day. Never run the spot market before but I’m making more money than I ever did at Swift and each week that passes I get a little better at booking my loads.
🙌🙌😎that’s what I’m taking about!! Congratulations!!
Conversate. George Bush Texas School of American, lol😂.. thanks for all the schooling I really like your show. Company driver thinking about joining the independence real soon. Thanks again for all you do.
You signed with F2F??
@@truckerron no sir I said a small company. Guy has 4 trucks running including himself and I couldn’t be happier with my decision
How much were your weekly settlements at swift net / gross?
People are going out of business because they don't have big monetized TH-cam channels and are socialmedia famous...They don't know the right people, (brokers) who are ethical...They are only stuck with big brokerages who don't negotiate and apps that bs with rates and lying about how much they can pay...And lastly, most shippers don't want to deal with a carrier with one truck and trailer and would rather deal with a fleet...And a lot of brokers don't want to negotiate...I've kept my W9 in the good lanes, no truck and trailer payments, and still have considered calling it quits after 22 years and last 10 as an owner operator with 8 month old authority...My break even is $1.88 based on my own expenses and hardly get anything at $2.00...So this whole industry has turned into a charade and rat race and won't miss it if I decide to throw in the towel...
Couldn't have said it any better.
Lmao I feel your rant bro. But let me add, the brokers I deal with know nothing of my TH-cam channel. I’m just another carrier.
Also, I do make some money from TH-cam but, the examples I give in this video are booking one truck on what I’ve been averaging per week running. $15-20k per that truck monthly. Notice how my TH-cam money isn’t factored into that equation 👌😎
Everyone has the ability to change. How many calls did you make today soliciting YOUR customers or trying to find more Direct Customers. Whining about brokers is easy, how many people put in the daily work of getting out of that failing broker rut ????
15k a month is not making money that’s peanuts after expenses don’t lie to the folks just do the math people
Bro don’t get too cocky, everyone is just a bump away from a major set back.
I’ve failed to much to be cocky, but I am confident because I don’t quit, I’ll always find a way.
@@MakeCentsTruckingAbsolutely brother, wisdom isn't being cocky 💪💯
I don’t know but we need a whole lot more to out of business! There’s more trucks then freight and whole bunch of steering wheel holders that have no business driving a truck!
We're flooded with millions of new Biden voters that think working for $50/day is rich in their 3rd world countries. This is the result of Toxic Democrat policy
I think one of the reasons people go broke is their personal expenses are too much for the current market.
100% CORRECT and a poorly ran inefficient business using a inefficient model of Dispatch services, brokers and other lazy services
The money you making isn’t enough to take care the necessary bills in trucking right now it’s survival mode right now
@@TheBandafall2003 WHAT🤷🤷🤷🤷😳
I run a radio, can’t live without it. Subbed.
I had to park my truck for a little bit due to some unforeseen some health and home issues but I'm looking to be back out on the road soon. I'm fortunate that my truck and trailer are paid for.
Hate to hear that bro. But our health is top priority 🙌🙌
Driven 35 years. CB RADIO has LITERALLY SAVED MY LIFE AND OTHERS BEFORE! One time I remember I was going east on I90 coming out of Austin, Mn. around a curve and someone had yelled over radio that a pickup truck pulling a camper had lost its drive shaft in the left hand lane and was sitting there stalled. Driver and passenger were bolting out waving their arms. Had I not heard this ahead of time I could have KILLED THEM AND MAYBE MYSELF. Like it when people can warn me about gators, deer, turkeys, school buses, farm machines ect.
NOT PUTTING IT AWAY WHEN THEY WERE MAKING IT. NOT INVESTING IN OTHER AVENUE'S. DEPENDING ON TRUCKING ALONE. LIVING ABOVE THEIR MEANS.
Above all, Sammy, I believe you succeed because you have the right attitude. You hold yourself accountable. When the market dips, you're not out here crying and whining and blaming everyone else. That seems to be the common thread between the owner/ops who can survive the hard times.
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Just trucking witches about everything
Because truckers don't control the equation. You don't control freight rates. Bust
7 yrs flat bed
4 o/o once hit $2 April 23' I had to stop :(
Operating cost are to high for the 30 year old rates.......
Yes and inefficient business practices like Dispatcher services, Outsourced Compliance services and Brokers only model is Guaranteed Failure
I can't tell you how many times I've tried to tell another driver something over the cb, just for them to not have one or have it on.
Yeah it’s crazy
Not enough can be said about make cents technique in always in back of the mind “thinking about the next load” 💯.
They can’t hear the CB with there earbuds in anyways, plus they got their foot up on the dash of that Volvo or Cascadia so reaching the microphones kind of awkward for them😂😂
😂😂😂 sad but true
You are super blessed and you are good at what you doing, brother.
My radio is always on, it’s crazy how many times I’ve tried to warn the other side of a pile up and then see on the news how bad it got after I called it out for 40 miles. Trucking is always going to go up and down - the game is to save when it’s up to coast when it’s down.
Right
If you work every day and use your head you'll survive
A lot of folks haven't learned that if you're not going to use your head you might as well have 2 a$$holes 😅
Thank you for the video it brings clarity 🙏🏽 to some of us
Another big part of it that I feel some people are ignorant about is how they buy there fuel. Besides insurance and fixed cost fuel is our #1 biggest expense, and how you buy your fuel over time could break the bank.
It’s called good karma or lifeforce energy. It’s the energy a man carry’s in his dna 🧬. That’s what “luck” 🍀 is. As a man travels the world he is protected by it unknowingly. In business and in life.
That’s some deep understanding I’m super happy you brought up 😎🙌 That’s how I live my life. Life gives you what you give! It’s a simple understanding but the majority won’t believe it, so… they step on each other not knowing what they do to others, they also do to them selves 🙌🙌
@@MakeCentsTrucking yup. You got that right! 👍
I don’t see how or why anyone would want to lease their equipment to someone who is taking money off the top of depressed rates and then charging all of their incidentals on top of that plus you’re under their thumb. I do my own thing damn them folks.
Believe it or not , we have too many dmb truckers.
They lease because they think it is easy to run a business with someone’s “ help” little they know is that those companies make them pay for everything and also slave them .
Those lease drivers are destroying this industry .
Because of those dmb truckers , companies can monopolize cheap freight !!
Yeah some of the folks these guys lease to are straight crooks. Problem is that most of these guys don’t know the difference. If someone is taking 25% off the top plus plates,insurance, escrow accounts, IFTA and on and on it’s no surprise so many go bankrupt. The only ones making money are the ones they’re leased on with. Too many folks I think just don’t do the math or just don’t know what things cost that they’re paying these crooks for.
Hey Sammy, good to see you, brother👍👍👍 I think some of these guys don’t know their CPM. You gotta know that you don’t know what you’re doing in the first place.👍👍👍
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Smart Business Practices, Staying lean and efficient, Dedication and Persistence....ALL required to be successful at business, which you are 💪🇺🇸✅✅
In bad economy try to stick more with food freight. People can only go so long with out food. Flatbed freight will always suffer first in not so good economy. HOPPER BOTTOM, TANKER, might pay better because it is more specialized and wash outs are required and risk of contamination. Much more responsibility is required with hopper bottom and tanker freight. Also some bigger pay for hauling livestock due to animal health and disease of course. Sad but I have hauled some haz mat that did not pay any better than general freight.
They dont realise communication will save their life and others.
The cb has saved me twice.
If you have the cb antennas only inches from your cab your not getting the amount of reception and transmission capacity you need.
I found my self in fog with freezing conditions. I tried to tell the schneider and others that they were coming into a crash and traffic was fully stopped.
I heard later that there were fatalities.
If they had a cb radio they would be alive and saved others.
Buy a great stock radio that offers the bells and whistles.
I like the galaxy 959.
It has features to keep you aware.
Get two antennas. Mount them on the upper Outside western mirror mount.
Newer trucks make a sturdy mount for each siide.
Live longer.
I dont use a cb anymore because im a company driver and been in 15 different trucks in 3 years. Would get a loaner truck without a cb and would just wait it out until my truck was out of the shop. I just get lazy and tired of hooking it up and moving antennas. Then let the truck be a different model now you got to buy $64 antenna brackets. Ive got 6 cb radios and a bunch of antennas at the house though chilling in the garage. For the guy why owns his truck or is OTR in the same truck for 5 years yea you should have a cb
Yeah I use to drive local. I had my cb in my back pack and hooked it up every night. Just to the coax tho, antenna was mounted. It was a hassle.
Hey Sammy a lot of companies are not allowing CBs in your truck now. They call it a distraction. Your not allowed to talk on your phone and drive by some
I bought a truck in 2018 and sold it in 2022 and almost doubled what I paid for it. 😬
f yea 🙌
1. Over-leveraged. Into the business tipped from jump. Funded with debt rather than profit.
2. Starry eyed. Trying to keep up with the Jones. Bad advice, talked into more debt.
3. Low bid was at one time just common sense. But now seems like a broadening campaign for a cheapy weepy rate market across the board.
4. Lopsided freight to driver ratio, and bidded freight going on the load boards rather than awarded to lowest biddder.
5. Too many greedy hands in the pot. Any entity even remotely affiliated with trucking have raised the cost of operating to difficult and unattainable levels.
6. Milk toast oversight, regulatory and Law enforcement. Blind eye, look the other way. "not my job."
I think it’s the person spending habits. I used to work I.T in the oil fields those Foreman and PM were making money so they were buying 90k trucks and expensive houses that was a bit more than they needed. The oil tanked people got layed off then they tried selling those over priced trucks. So I think the same is happening in trucking instead of saving majority then spending they spend as it comes in
Yes 🙌
Pretty sure I saw u today around 3pm exit 440 in FL. You were heading north.
Came out of Miami this morning 😎😎 prob so
I’m very successful leased on to a carrier I’m with just hot at 3,686 mile week legally
I sold my 2012 Kenworth T800 in 2022 for what I bought it for in 2019 I'm thinking about reinstating my authority in March purchasing a used working truck not a show truck and a used reefer or dry van, I will be a low budget operation like I was running before. I sold my truck because my mom had cancer and I needed o stay home with her,. Not because I wasn't making money
So many places in this country have some audio recording that starts playing when someone keys up their mic. I was playing around when I heard the Walmart parking lot guy. When it stops playing all you got to do is push the button and the recording starts over again. People are tired of hearing that shit
Man I saw you down here in south Florida couple weeks ago. Nice to see the kw9 down here
A lot of people i notice get into the game with their hopes to high nothing saved and don’t understand the meaning of running a business
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1 thing though, just because there’s more loads doesn’t mean they’re better loads. I have access to the spot market boards and our rates kill the open market because we have such a good customer base …..just my 2 cents
then they take 30% plus a flatbed rent .. i talk to landstar', mercer, crst guys and after they take their cut, they are making the same or less then me on the spot market. if you are making as much as you claim then buy your own flatbed 😂😂
@@TheDriller100 😂😂😂😂 always an expert somewhere🙄, you know if I wanted my own trailer I’d just go down and buy one, but it’s financially better for me to rent this one, but I’m not gonna waste time explaining it to somebody who thinks they already know everything so you do you and I’ll do me
You also conveniently left out all the expenses. Someone has running under their own authority that I don’t have like insurance!!!!
Oh, one other thing, kiddo I’ve had my own authority before, so I know which side of the fence is better 😉
Cause It Makes Cents what you do Brother
I personally think money was to good a couple years back and people got comfortable/based lifestyle on the good times. Bunch of covid truckers going out
Running mega carrier freight in the company’s truck paying 1600+ a week will get a lot of people
See that’s what I been thinking is why so many go out. Like someone said in the comments there personal expenses are more than the current market rates. So I believe I can make it in this market because my monthly expense 4k a month
I’m doing ok. I pull super B’s and also own a 50 ton lowboy. I’m finding my sweet spot in the LTL market regionally. Be very lucky with the carrier I have my equipment leased on to has a sharp dispatch department. I set my benchmarks of what I’m looking to make (minimal) and they hit home runs a lot of the time. Welfare is always one F’up away so my advise is stay alert.
Good to see you're doing well mate.
Hey boss can u give us an example of a couple weeks of the load you took if posible .
As usual great content.💯
Check out my previous load board videos. What I talk about in those are exactly how I book my truck 👊
Some people are not good in business and want to be home
Good video keep up with the uploads
Simple to many people don’t have a business mindset meaning if you have a shit tons of bills and another thing people panic on fueling learn to properly read it
Hey what’s up bro how are you much love
I agree, CB Radio is a very important tool
People going broke because they haul cheap freight..
I run my radio( ex bullhauler)
Games... not on my phone... but I do play virtual reality games.. love vr airplanes
I bet those are awesome! I may have to buy one, use my boys oculus 🙌🙌🙌
Mines always on
I just read the thumbnail and it’s easy .. Guys like you take all the cheap freight you can just to stay in business and to do your you tube shenanigans while the ones that refuse to haul cheap loads would rather park it before they touch cheap freight !! And if that means going out of business for the sake of morals and standards then so be it i have much respect for the ones going that route !!!!!!
Yeah I ran 36k miles last year so umk 😎
These Foreigners are driving class A with work visas. The Government's not enforcing the rules in Trucking. I see more Foreigners than Born Americans mostly on the road. The eyes don't lie.
@@MakeCentsTrucking yeah 36k of cheap paid miles next year you will find yourself running 50k miles making the exact same keep it up..I’m in the flat bed side so as long as you stay over there keep running all the hard and cheap paid miles you want 🤙
@@johnf1441that’s good. I hope you keep making the same and do well at what you do 😎 and I’ll keep doing what I’ve been doing. I just don’t understand why someone takes it personal on what I do vs what you do? I want us all to win 😎
Insurance is the big killer right now.....708 a week...course csa took a pretty good hit earlier in the year right before renewal
Yeah ins can be insane
Time to park it!
708 a week.... Holly cow... mine is 1100 a month
You know these new drivers don't use radios anymore. I have one in my rig and one in my pickup
They idle away their 💸💸💸
What happened. To DRIVEN!!???
Think he was captured by Chapos cartel 😂 jk bro. Not sure now days. It’s been a month since we’ve talked
First from Missouri 👊🏻💪🏻🫣
Your thoughts on a trailer…Best place to buy a trailer?
I thought the more loads you cover for a broker the more money he would pay on next load. However to my surprise it's exactly opposite. The more you book the more they take you for granted. 😢
No offense to anyone but I keep hearing, I make 6-9k a week do you ever count fuel, insurance, lease ect.
Luckily you were in Gallup that Loves does repair
Yea. There isn’t much around there
@@MakeCentsTruckingif I’m not mistaken I think they just opened a ONE9 there
QUESTION ; How many of you have called at least 4-5 Businesses a day trying to add direct customers?? I find very few "O/O" that actually run a trucking business like a real business and that's probably the #1 failure causation the last few years. START CALLING DAILY and get direct customers, you'll be just fine after gaining 20-50% higher rates by cutting Brokers out 💪♥️
🙌🙌🙌🙌 you can make it on spot if you know how and what to do. A direct is night and day difference. I do both. Trying my bestest to work my second truck into 100% direct specialized
What's that oil pressure drop to coasting down hill
20 psi at idle, or coasting. 40 in gear
Maybe post business 101 series play list clickblink to next 25 video "up next" BINDGE trucker truckn
MakeCents makes about enough money on TH-cam to go out once a month and buy a cheeseburger at McDonald's for himself.. He makes his money with trucking, not TH-cam..
What gear ratio you run Sammy?
3:55 in the Kenworth 😎
👍@@MakeCentsTrucking
Man u the only 1 play dat
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I wanted to know do you run recaps for your logs?
Yeah until I don’t have enough to run another load
Do you know where to buy a truck & trailer at the “right” price and how much is that ?
What’s the difference in you fuel mileage since you slowed down?
.5-1mpg depending on weight.
@@MakeCentsTrucking I had a terrible week on during 4th of July. $5300. After truck/trailer payment I spent so much on fuel I brought home $300. Following week after I saw this video and decided to slow down, I made $4800 ( another bad week) to the truck , but I brought home $850. I cruise at 62mph as long as my hours let me. So thanks for the example.
Where are you getting insurance for $700 a month?
Check description and call my guy Matt 👊
Your alive in trucking because your TH-cam channel the money you make there helps you.
So, if I can make $20k per month with one truck, the one I drive. Not including my other truck. You’re saying I’m making it because my of TH-cam channel? Your thinking has no argument here. My TH-cam channel doesn’t account for what I do trucking.
@@MakeCentsTrucking I make it because I have everything pay off but when things brake it is tight staying I live after paying for repairs and I drive a flatbed wish gets pay a lot more than dry van.
@@elpapatruckingllc8827ok but your still missing my points. My home is not paid for, my wife’s 4Runner is not paid for and I have many debts but my trucking earning still cover it all. Btw my current TH-cam earning is $234 for the month lol
@@MakeCentsTrucking yes I understand that it is still doable as long and the truck doesn’t have any big repair or problems that could put you out for a week or two. I have two trucks my wife who drives one and me. We survive but I know there is a lot of people that are having a very hard time and any rock in there path could end everything.
@@MakeCentsTruckingnot bad! I make 800 bucks a month at a grocery store and that's the reason I'm going to trucking school this fall 😂
2 trucks is not hard, try to maintain and dispatch 10 trucks plus 16 trailers then you would think different. So don't bragg until you get bigger in the game
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Wow! Good job man, we're really impressed! Yeah Sammy, quit bragging all the time 😂.
Did your momma drop you on the head? This video was about booking loads per truck. I have two, that’s not bragging. But ok dude
@@MakeCentsTrucking cool!
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Because
Sammy, I don’t turn on my cb because of the nasty side of it like the h o m o dudes who are advert the nasty. Also, no one will respond 8/10 times. Immature adults cussing each other for hours. CB for me not worth it. I only turn on in the winter when I’m in the midwest and northern states.
people be like why do I need a cb when I got a cell phone but I have a cb
lol I’ve heard that myself
@@MakeCentsTrucking heck I always tell people to get a decent cb
Lets talk *clean money* , or have you done that on any other videos before ?, once again *clean clear money* .
Net?
@@MakeCentsTrucking Money that you make and never have to put back into that business *CLEAN CLEAR MONEY* .
If that is not clear enough , how much money would you need to make on a regular job which taxes were taken out , and where you had no expenses , to be the same equivalent to what you are making now ?? , *BOTTOM LINE CLEAN CLEAR MONEY*
@@WISHBONEL7😂😂😂
@@MakeCentsTrucking Have you given it any thought ? . Although I am familiar with the trucking business , that is a question that applies to *ALL* for profit businesses , especially the ones that want to be honest with themselves .
What is really taking place in *REAL TERMS* Mr. MakeCentsTrucking ????.
I’m 34 no kids no wife no rent if I can bring home atleast 3500 a week on the low end I’m sure I can make it
Am I suppose to drive your truck for you as well
(M/35) I’m a new apprentice in the carpenters union working in Boston. I’ve always wanted to drive a truck though but never got my cdl. I want to make the jump but don’t know if it’s worth it. Any advice?
@smokeclouds8 trucking is top five in risk. so its up to you if you want to risk your life like that. if you have a chance, find a trucker to ride along for a week, and see the driving from inside the truck.
New age drivers and cb's lol they are cut from a different cloth, is your old buddy Tim still on TH-cam that had the 389 then sold it ?
Yeah he’s put out some recent videos.
Brokers,fuel and all the different taxes are getting all your money.
Hard work only to survive he'll nope
This guy here got the big head
Nah, confident , not cocky. I’m just good at what I do bro. Been at this game for 24 years. You learn some things along the way.
Bcuz Melalueca is paying you 4500/month.... ??? 🍨
That would be the life 😎
@@MakeCentsTrucking 💪🤣
you stay in bushiness because countless mechanics depend on fixing your peterbuilt
This year is better 2017-18
Absolutely 🙌 these new guys don’t know about them pre covid years lol
@MakeCentsTrucking I do reefer, doing good just from DAT board.
Damn it Sammy I had to learn from strangers on TH-cam that you out here making bank on TH-cam ? That’s how divorces start you know 😘
Lmao 🤣
Some trucking company's don't allow cb radios
That’s just ridiculous!! It can be a life saving tool
@chrisbelsito4231 yea but there's company's that will fire you in a heart beat for having a cb in their truck, don't ask me why because like you just said it is a very important tool to have in a semi
Sounds like a company that would have driver facing dashcams too😂
Walmart had or has cameras facing the driver's, my dad drove for Walmart and he is the one that told me about the cameras
@@orenminton405 Walmart is one of the very few major carriers that actually take care of their drivers
Can't hear a word
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They can’t hear the CB with there earbuds in anyways, plus they got their foot up on the dash of that Volvo or Cascadia so reaching the microphones kind of awkward for them😂😂