i booked a dedicated run hauling grain in a belly dump for 2.38/mile gross to truck on all miles

Añadido: 2026-05-12

[00:00:00]Good afternoon. Hope you're having a great week. It is Monday, May 11th at 3:37 p.m. Central Daylight Time, local time here in Oklahoma City. Well, I just uploaded a loadboard video today and uh about an hour or so ago, shortly after I uploaded the loadboard video, I got a load alert and uh it was for this load right here.

[00:00:25]Let's take a peek at it.

[00:00:28]Let me extend out the comments. I don't know why they have the comments like this.

[00:00:35]But you might not even know there's more stuff there because they just have the comments, you know, sitting there like that right there. And you think all it says is dedicated project. But if you have to go here and, you know, check to see if there's anything else listed there. I don't know why like the there's some janky stuff with the new load board. So anyway, let's this is I got a load alert on this load and it says Borgger, Texas to let's see where all it's going. It picks up in Borgger, Texas, which is just north of Amarillo and then it goes over to uh North or South Carolina over by Greenville.

[00:01:12]It's going to Anderson, South Carolina.

[00:01:15]And then it goes down to Louisiana to Vil Plat, Louisiana.

[00:01:22]And we come over here and we look at this and it's listed as a power only load. It's max weight 44,000 lb and it's uh down here in the comments. I mean the pay on it's not that great.

[00:01:46]This would have been a decent like rate.

[00:01:48]Not a good not a good rate, but a decent rate 3 months ago before the fuel prices started going up. But now with the high fuel prices, this is not a very good rate. So that's not what caught my attention. What caught my attention was down here at the very bottom. It says dedicated project, 50% empty, all loaded miles paid. So that okay Tony the guy the agent um he he didn't type this up correctly.

[00:02:18]It's all miles are paid not just loaded miles because he says right here half your miles only half your miles are loaded and all your loaded miles are paid. That's not a good thing. That's not what he meant to say. What he meant to say is all of your miles are paid loaded or empty.

[00:02:37]Um, limited spots open, $8 to $10,000 a week total revenue.

[00:02:45]Really? Okay, I'm interested. Tell me more. He doesn't have accessorial pay, no fuel search charge or anything listed here, so I can't really crunch numbers on anything. There's nothing to crunch numbers on. I don't know. Whenever agents list dedicated runs, it's since it's not like one single run, they typically just throw gibberish into these load listings. This is a this is a sales lead. This is marketing and sales.

[00:03:13]Every one of these load listings is to generate a lead. It's to generate a phone call.

[00:03:20]So, um they just put information in here to get a phone call. So, sometimes this information is wildly inaccurate. So, um, I called up the agent, spoke with Tony, and got some details on the load.

[00:03:34]So, let's talk about the details on the load. Let's switch over to my spreadsheet. You know how much I love spreadsheets.

[00:03:45]All right, so this is the page with the information on the Ford dedicated run.

[00:03:50]This is the the Ford dedicated run right here with all the details on it. Sheet number two. This is the details of the Borgger dedicated run. And okay, so let's talk about this. It is hauling belly dumps. Grain haul. I think I'm pretty sure it's grain that I'm hauling and it's belly dumps. I have never hauled anything except dry vans. I've hauled 53 ft drive vans, 48T drive vans, and I've hauled doubles. I've never hauled I don't think I've hauled triples.

[00:04:29]I might have hauled triples as a local driver in Reno, Nevada.

[00:04:34]Um I think maybe I might have hauled triples. Um not sure on triples, but I've hauled 28T pups, which are doubles.

[00:04:44]Um and I've hauled 53 and 48 foot. So, all I've ever hauled are dry vans. And this is a belly dump. Never hauled one before.

[00:04:55]And he said that whenever I'm loaded, it's going to be 44,000 lbs. It's going to be max weight whenever I'm loaded.

[00:05:03]So, that sucks. But he said half my miles are going to be empty. So, basically, I'm going to pick up loads out of these grain dump places. I'm going to take them over to somewhere and deliver it. And then I'm going to dead head to the next grain dump facility to to pick up a loaded trailer. It's all drop and hook. It's all drop and hook.

[00:05:24]Every single thing is drop and hook.

[00:05:26]It's never live live uh live unloader or live load.

[00:05:32]So, and also it's not dedicated as far as where I'm going. I have no idea where I'm going. Um, I can be running all over the place.

[00:05:43]Um, from what I understand, it does not go into the deep northeast. It does not go into the Pacific Northwest. And I asked him specifically if it goes to California because I said, "I'm not legal in California." And he said, "No, we don't run in California." He said, "We don't like California." And I said, "Neither do I."

[00:06:03]And I'm not legal there. So good. But anyway, um these are the details on the load.

[00:06:11]The load pays $2.40 a mile on the line haul. And because we're not using a Landstar trailer, I get 70% of the line haul instead of 65% which comes to $1.68 a mile. And it is currently paying.7 a mile fuel search charge and I get 100% of that. So that comes out to $2.38 a mile gross to the truck and I get paid every single mile I'm driving loaded or empty.

[00:06:47]So I shouldn't have any dead head miles.

[00:06:50]Now the mileage may not be actual miles.

[00:06:53]They may pay me like zip code to zip code miles. So, it's not going to be actual miles, but I'm not going to have like, you know, significant dead head miles in between loads.

[00:07:06]Um, it should be within probably 10 miles of actual miles on the loads. 10 to 20 miles of actual miles on on every load.

[00:07:15]But, um, I'm just guesstimating that the fuel price is going to average after discount, including fuel tax, to be around 550 a gallon.

[00:07:28]And I'm expecting my miles per per gallon to be around 6 miles per gallon.

[00:07:32]I'll get good mile per gallon whenever I'm empty, but whenever I'm max weight, my miles per gallon is going to suck.

[00:07:43]So, I'm expecting my cost per mile to be about 91 92 cents per mile for just fuel. Just my fuel cost is going to be about 92 cents a mile. So, if my gross to the truck is 238 a mile and my cost per mile is 92 cents per mile, let's look at some numbers. So, I I have some numbers based off of different mileage weeks because this is not a dedicated like the Ford dedicated where we're doing back and forth between the same places. So, my mileage can vary greatly.

[00:08:18]Now, what he said as far as mileage goes is that he has people that run this account that do really, really, really big miles.

[00:08:30]Um, he said that he has people running the account that are doing like over 10,000 total revenue per week, which that would be$10,000 divided by $310 a mile.

[00:08:48]That would be 3,225 miles per week. He said he has people doing 15,000 revenue per week. So 15,000 divided by 3.10 that's 4,838 miles per week.

[00:09:12]Is it possible for a solo driver to do 4,838 miles per week? Kind of. Kind of.

[00:09:21]It depends on where you're running.

[00:09:24]Um, but let's divide. What What mile hour average would you have to have to do that? So, let's um 4,838 uh miles.

[00:09:37]Uh, let's divide that by how what's the maximum hours you can drive?

[00:09:45]I think the maximum hours you can drive in a week is somewhere around 60 hours.

[00:09:59]Um, I would have to go and run because you need about 15 minutes for uh for a pre-trip, 15 minutes for a post trip, and then you're going to have, you know, wasted time in there doing other things.

[00:10:24]I've calculated it before. what the maximum theoretical number of hours you can drive in a week is.

[00:10:33]Um it's somewhere between like it's somewhere around like 64 65 is the maximum theoretical. Let's go with all right. So, let's let's say that you have, you know, you're doing 10-minute pre-trip, 5 minute post-trip. So, you're using 15 minutes for every drive shift.

[00:11:07]So, if you're using six drive shifts, that would be um six 11-hour drive shifts would be 66 hours.

[00:11:18]and six 15minute blocks would be four would be an hour.

[00:11:26]This would be an hour and a half.

[00:11:29]So 66 hours in a week would be really really really close to your maximum theoretical. But let's just do theoretical here. This is not realistic.

[00:11:37]This is theoretical. So let's divide this uh by 66.

[00:11:44]So you would have to have a 73 mph average. So if you drove the maximum amount of hours per week that you possibly could, you had no wasted time on your clock. You basically you're lying on your clock.

[00:12:01]No wasted time. You're doing a 10-minute pre-trip, fifth trip. So you only have 15 minutes of logged pre-trip, post-trip time per shift.

[00:12:12]Then um you would have to have a 73 mph average to do that many miles in a week.

[00:12:19]Is that possible? Yeah. There's states with 80 mph speed limits. There's states with 75 mph speed limits. It's not realistic.

[00:12:29]This this this is like you're talking about theoretical pushing the very boundaries of possibility.

[00:12:36]Um, it's technically possible depending on what states you're driving in, what the speed limit is, what your truck's governed at. Let's say you're, you know, governed at 86 miles per hour and you can, you know, drive any speed limit in the country. You can drive maximum speed.

[00:12:55]Um, yeah, you could do this. This is possible. Especially if you're driving 80 miles per hour. If you're driving 80 miles per hour, then a 73 mile per hour average would be fairly easy to do. If you're driving 80 um so yeah, if you're driving in a state with an 80 mph truck speed limit, you could do over 5,000 you could probably do over 5,000 miles in a week legally solo.

[00:13:26]So yeah, he told me that he has drivers that are doing upwards of $15,000 total revenue, not like what the truck is making, but total revenue of $15,000.

[00:13:40]That would be uh 4838. Let's do 4838 times uh what's the truck making? 2.38.

[00:13:51]So that would be $11,514 gross to the truck. If you're doing 4,800 miles in a week, the $4,838 miles in a week, that would be $11,514 gross to the truck in a week.

[00:14:10]I am not going to go full super trucker on this account and try to do some crazy nonsense like that. No.

[00:14:18]Especially with fuel prices the way that they are, it once these trucks get over 70 mph, your miles per gallon drop dramatically because of wind resistance and other things. The way that they're geared, the differential transmission, all that stuff, um, friction, air resistance, the way that they're designed, anything over 70, your fuel mileage starts plummeting. Uh there's there's a big there's a fairly big drop between 65 and 70, but it falls off a cliff over 70 on my truck. Other trucks that are designed to go faster than mine, maybe they don't fall off a cliff over 70, but my truck falls off a cliff over 70.

[00:15:04]Um, with fuel prices the way they are, I'm probably going to go back to running 65 miles an hour.

[00:15:11]All right, so let's get back to the numbers here.

[00:15:14]So 3,500 miles a week is very very very very possible even if I'm only doing 65 miles uh an hour. So a 60 mph average uh 60 * 60 is 3600.

[00:15:30]So, if I'm driving 65 and I have a 60 mph average, uh, and I drive 60 hours a week, which I can drive more than 60 hours a week, I could probably drive closer to 63 or 64 hours a week realistically.

[00:15:49]Um, so yeah, 3,800 miles a week is very possible, but 3600 miles a week is not too far-fetched.

[00:15:57]So, this 3500 miles a week, as long as like they have me loads constantly lined up and I could just keep running loads back to back to back. Um, 3500 miles a week should not be difficult to do. When I was at USA Truck, I was the top driver in in the fleet that I was in and I was averaging I want to say I was averaging like 3,200 miles a week at USA Truck and I was constantly fighting with their dispatching because they were just giving me terrible dispatches that were having me sit around for, you know, a long time in between loads and it was really inefficient. I was constantly fighting with them. It was absolutely horrible dispatching and I was still averaging like 3,200 miles a week. Um, and I I was the the top performer in Haley's fleet. And how do I know that?

[00:16:54]Well, if you go back and watch my videos, I got pissed off. I got tired of arguing with Haley. She was a And I talked with Haley's boss and told him that I wanted to be put on another fleet because Haley was a and he tried to talk me out of it because he said that I was the best driver in her fleet and um if I left her fleet then her numbers would crash and she wouldn't be a top performer anymore. So, I was basically carrying her lazy stupid ass.

[00:17:24]And he liked her and he didn't want her numbers to plummet because she was, you know, going to get bonuses and raises and stuff like that because of me. But I put my I I I gave him like one or two weeks after that conversation with her boss to see if she changed because he said he'd talked to her and nothing changed. And after like a couple weeks, I said, "Nope, nothing's changed. So, get me over to another fleet."

[00:17:55]So, he did. He got me over to another fleet. And the fleet that he got me over to, the guy was super nice.

[00:18:01]Uh, the fleet he got me on to, the guy was awesome. He wasn't like great at his job. I still had an issue with bad loads, but he didn't argue with me and talk to me like I was, you know, a kid.

[00:18:14]All right. So, yeah. 35. The point I'm making is 3,500 miles a week. As long as like I have a load waiting on me and I don't have a lot of downtime or anything. And he said a lot of these places that I'm picking up and delivering is they're 24/7 and it's all like first come, first serve, drop and hook. And he said most of the time it should be really quick and easy in and out. But he said sometimes they'll get backed up and I'll have to sit around and wait for them to unload trailers so that I'll have an empty to take.

[00:18:45]So I am a little concerned about the weight because my truck is heavier than a normal truck.

[00:19:03]So, I I don't know. We'll see. I'll probably have to scale uh and just see like like what it's like. I'm hoping it I'm hoping the weight's not going to be an issue.

[00:19:18]So, let's compare loads. Let's compare a 3,000 mi a week load. 3,000 mi a week is pretty easy to do.

[00:19:28]A lot of people think whenever truck drivers are uh thinking about like how many miles they can drive in a day, they think about a drive shift. How long is a drive shift? I always calculate a drive shift at 12 hours. Why? Well, you have 11 hours of driving and then you have a 15-minute pre-trip, 15-minute post-trip, and then a 30 minute break. You have that damn 30-minute break you have to take. So, that's an hour. So 11 hours of driving plus an hour of bull crap that the FMCSA makes you do.

[00:20:00]So 12 hours for a drive shift. Then you have a 10-hour break.

[00:20:05]Is that 24 hours? No, it's not. That's 22 hours. You still have 2 hours left in the day. And at a 60 mph average, that's another 120 miles that you can drive in a day. So you can actually drive in a normal driving day 13 hours in a day.

[00:20:23]Is that 13 hours? Yeah, it's 11 plus two. 13 hours in a day. Um, plus your hour of crap plus your 10-hour break.

[00:20:32]So, 13 hours in a day. If you're running as soon as your break is up, like as soon as your 10-hour break is up, you're you're rolling like I do. Like, that's how I normally run. So, you can drive 13 hours in a day. So if you're if you have a 60 mph average, then that's 660 mi in one drive shift and then another 2 hours 120 mi. That's 780 mi in a 24-hour period.

[00:21:01]So you can drive about 780 miles in a 24-h hour period and you know doing 65 miles per hour with a 60 m per hour a or 60 m per hour average.

[00:21:13]So like you're doing almost 800 miles a day, 780 miles a day.

[00:21:19]Uh we'll say 800 a day. So once you get like a roughly around 5 days, you should be you're you're it only takes about 5 to 5 and 1/2 days, right around 5 and 1/2 days for you to completely run out your 70 hour clock.

[00:21:35]About 5 and a half days and then you have time to do a 34-hour restart and you can start over again. So you can run completely out of your 70 every week. If you're running as hard as you can, you can run out of your 70 every week. Do a 34. And you can do that infinitely over and over and over and over again.

[00:22:01]So 3,000 miles a week is pretty easy to do.

[00:22:06]That's a pretty light week to do 30 3,000 miles in a week.

[00:22:13]So, let's compare this on a 3,000mi week. So, that would be $7,140 gross to the truck. Fuel cost would be $2,750.

[00:22:25]It's almost a dollar a mile.

[00:22:29]So, what I would make after fuel cost on a 3,000 mi week would be $4,390.

[00:22:38]So, the gross per month on a 4-week month, I would be making $28,560 gross to the truck. But after fuel cost, I would be making $17,560.

[00:22:58]God, the fuel cost is insane. Like, that is crazy that I'd be spending like $11,000 a month in fuel cost.

[00:23:14]So, let's compare that. Okay, so after fuel cost on a 3,000 mi week, it's 4,390. Now, let's compare that to the Ford account. On the Ford account, they say that the average week is 2 and a half loads, which comes out to almost exactly 3,000 mi.

[00:23:32]So, the net after fuel cost on that would be $3,374.37 or 38, however you like. If you round up, it's 38.

[00:23:48]So, $3,374.38.

[00:23:53]So, 3374 versus 4390.

[00:24:01]So, it's almost $1,000 a week more after after fuel cost. I'm making about $1,000 a week more on this grain hauler load.

[00:24:22]So, yeah, $4,400 a week versus 3,400 a week.

[00:24:30]4,400 and it was uh 3,400 roughly. 44 versus 34.

[00:24:42]So almost exactly $1,000 a week more on on the grain hauler load. And Tony the agent seems super cool. Um, yeah, he did give me some bad information and he posted some bad information, but that didn't seem intentional. It looks like he just kind of screwed up on the wording on a few things.

[00:25:05]Uh, but Tony seemed super cool and he called me back like he said he would, which is kind of a big deal for agents, for agents to tell you they're going to do something, especially calling you back. A lot of agents don't follow through with that stuff.

[00:25:19]And uh, Tony, they wanted somebody to pick. They wanted somebody to start today or tomorrow, and I told him that I have a delivery coming in um on Wednesday, and it would be Thursday or Friday at the earliest that I would be able to pick the load up. And uh he said, "Let me check with the guy and uh see if we can have you start uh late this later this week." And he called me back like it was like 40 minutes later.

[00:25:48]I got to the point where I was like, "He's not going to call me." And I just I had moved on with my life and I had completely forgotten about this load and I was like uh you know they they don't they're not going to wait. Um or somebody else called after I got off the phone with them. But no, he called me back eventually after like 45 minutes later and he was like, "Yeah, they said you could start on Thursday. You can start on Thursday, right?" And I said, "Well, Thursday might be cutting it a little close, but yeah, Thursday or Friday. I would I would have preferred Friday." He said, "Well, I might be able to get Friday." Okay. And I said, "Well, what's the mileage? Let me let me I said, "Let me think about this. What's the mileage between Oklahoma City and and Amarillo? I can't even remember what it is. Is it like 500 miles or is it like 300 miles?" And um we were sitting there trying, neither of us could remember what the mileage was, and he looked it up and he said, "It's 230 mi."

[00:26:37]And I was like, "Oh yeah." I said, "That shouldn't be that big of a deal." And he said, "Yeah, and there's not a specific time on Thursday. Like you can just pick it up whenever on Thursday." And I was like, "Yeah, if there's not a specific time and it's only 230 miles, that's, you know, that's just like a 4-hour drive." I thought it was like a 500 I thought it was 500 miles or something like it was a full drive shift over there. Like it was a full day to get there. Um, but I said, "No, I I should be able to make it on Thursday." And he's like, "All right, good deal." Uh, he said, "I'll send you a rake con uh Wednesday and I'll check with you on Wednesday and you know, we'll just make sure everything's all right." So, he said the trailer that I'm picking up, he initially thought the trailer I was picking up in Borgger was empty, but now he said the trailer is loaded. So, it's a loaded trailer that I'm picking up in Borgger and he doesn't know where it's going. So, I have no idea where I'm going from Borger.

[00:27:31]Um, and I feel kind of bad right now that it's a loaded trailer. It's got like grain or something in it. It's going to be sitting there for, you know, a few days, like 4 days while it's waiting on me to get there. I feel kind of bad about that. I don't want it to get all like like I don't know how long grain can set in trailers before it becomes an issue.

[00:27:54]But anyway, they're they seem really cool with me coming down there. And uh I asked him if he had a if I could leave the Lancar trailer there at the the terminal at the yard. And he was like, "Well, that's a customer location.

[00:28:09]We can probably leave the trailer there, but it would be best if you just hang on to the trailer now. Uh whenever you stop doing the load, you know, you're going to want a trailer anyway." And I was like, "Well, yeah, I guess." So, I guess I'll just leave the trailer in my parking spot, which I'm not too thrilled with that because that means my car is going to be sitting in front of the trailer and that means my car is going to be pretty far in front of the trailer and I don't like that cuz somebody might hit my car. So, what I might do, I don't know. I might I don't know if I'm gonna put my car in front of the trailer or the trailer in front of my car. I might put the car behind my trailer. I don't know. I don't know what I'm gonna do.

[00:28:59]I'll figure something out. I might contact trailer utilization and just tell them to take the trailer.

[00:29:19]I don't know. I don't know what I'm going to do. I'll figure it out. I will figure it out.

[00:29:31]Yeah, there's there's things I've got to figure out. So yeah, I ended up getting what I think according to the numbers, according to the math and what the agent has told me, which you know, I talked about this in the last video on that that other dedicated run.

[00:29:46]What agents tell you versus reality is a lot of times they are two completely different things.

[00:29:54]Vastly different. So I'm probably not going to know realistically what this run is like until I start doing it. like how many miles can you really get in a week?

[00:30:07]But even if I can only do 2500 miles in a week, that's still uh 37 $3,658.

[00:30:17]$3,658 a week gross. Uh well, after fuel cost.

[00:30:27]So yeah.

[00:30:37]$3,658 a week after fuel cost. That's That's still pretty awesome. And that's only a 2500 mile week. And even if I'm only able to do $2,000 a week, that's still $3,000 a week after fuel cost. Three grand a week after fuel cost. That's still pretty good for just a 2,000 milei week. But if I'm out there crushing it, doing 3500 miles a week, then um you know, that's $5,121 a week after fuel cost. That's $8,330 a week before fuel cost.

[00:31:24]That's amazing. And the fuel cost is so high that any kind of savings that I can get on fuel can make a dramatic difference. So, let's look at the numbers here. Let's look at these numbers over here. I have the fuel price set at 550 a gallon. So, after my discounts, but also including fuel tax, I'm estimating a $5.50 50 cent a gallon average cost for fuel and I'm estimating 6 mile per gallon average. You know, you know, getting 6 miles per gallon average in the truck. That comes up to a 91 cent per mile fuel cost.

[00:32:10]Well, half my miles are going to be empty and I could be doing a lot of flat land driving. So even when I'm loaded at max weight, if it's on flat land, you can still get about 6 and 1/2, maybe even 7 m per gallon.

[00:32:30]So if I'm able to get like eight, maybe 8 1/2 miles per gallon, um you can get upwards of 10 miles per gallon with an empty trailer.

[00:32:42]Um I' I've averaged 9 miles per gallon before hauling an empty trailer.

[00:32:49]So, if I'm able, you know, with the empty miles and I don't do a whole lot of mountain driving when I'm heavy and I'm able to get decent like that mile per gallon average can easily go from six up to maybe 7 and a half. So, let's do 7.5 that is huge. If I'm getting if I'm getting 7.5 mile per gallon average instead of six, then that takes my fuel cost from 91 cents a mile down to 73 cents a mile. I just got um a raise of like 18 cents a mile. I just got an 18 cent per mile pay raise and that has a huge impact on the numbers. So, that 3,000 mile a week goes to $5,000 a week after um uh after fuel cost.

[00:33:47]So, if I do 3,000 mi a week, you're looking at making $5,000 a week after fuel cost.

[00:33:57]What What was What was it before? Let's put it back at six. 4390. So, 400.

[00:34:04]So $4,400 a week versus we go to 7.5 miles per gallon to 49.40.

[00:34:10]So it's about $500 a week more that I would make if I can get 7 1/2 m per gallon instead of 6 m per gallon.

[00:34:21]And you know, there is also the possibility that I might maybe be able to get fuel a little bit cheaper if I'm able to like there are some places where I can get fuel where it is closer to like let's check Oklahoma City right now. Oklahoma City is a really it's one of the cheaper places that you can get fuel in the country.

[00:34:44]So, um well, I'm already looking at um a pro in Missouri that for the Ford dedicated and my cost of this one would be 466.

[00:35:01]So, the about the cheapest place the about the cheapest fuel you can get right now is somewhere around 460 a gallon after discount. Somewhere in the ballpark of 460 a gallon. So, if I'm able to average $5 a gallon instead of 550, then that takes my fuel cost down to 66 cents per mile.

[00:35:24]So, like it just keeps like every little penny that I can save on fuel cost and mile per gallon. Like fuel is so expensive right now that anything that increases my mile per gallon or decreases my fuel cost is going to have a significant uh effect on my my net after fuel cost.

[00:35:47]So let's take this back to 5.5 and six. Um I like to do my estimates based off of very realistic numbers.

[00:35:57]Um, I'm usually very conservative with my estimates like five and a half uh $5.50.

[00:36:05]Uh, just a second here. I'm hearing something outside and somebody's trying to hack into my Reddit account right now. Why? Why?

[00:36:21]Like, what benefit is there to getting into someone's Reddit account?

[00:36:26]Like what do you get access to on somebody's Reddit account? Like why would somebody bother hacking into that?

[00:36:31]Sorry, I I heard a bunch of noise outside and uh I don't see anything going on. I have a grocery delivery, a really massive $250 grocery delivery.

[00:36:44]Actually, I think it's closer to 300. I have like a $300 grocery delivery that's supposed to arrive um here shortly.

[00:36:57]But yeah, somebody's trying to hack into my Reddit account. I keep getting emails of someone um attempting to reset my password on Reddit. And I've run it through an LLM to see if it's a legitimate email. And the LLM says that yes, it is a real email from Reddit.

[00:37:18]Um, so anyone trying to hack into any of my accounts, like if you see my username on an account, you decide you want to try to hack into it, all of my passwords on everything are randomly generated with random letters, numbers, and characters.

[00:37:37]Um, I don't have like my dog's name as a password or something like that.

[00:37:44]Um, all of my passwords are I I have no idea what any of my passwords are. I have I have to use a password manager.

[00:37:52]So, yeah, the likelihood that somebody's going to randomly guess one of my passwords is like a one in a trillion chance. It's uh you have better odds of winning the lottery than breaking one of my passwords cuz I always use the maximum length and uh randomized everything.

[00:38:16]So anyway, let's go back here.

[00:38:20]So yeah, this this dedicated run is looking really good.

[00:38:26]Uh this is looking like pretty solid.

[00:38:29]Uh these are I think these are fairly conservative numbers and um they said that they were really cool with like home time.

[00:38:51]Uh they said, you know, anytime I want to go home, if I just want to go home for a 34, you know, they can get me into the house for a 34. Or if I want to go take a week off at the house, not a big deal. Um so yeah, my expectation, he said that this usually lasts for about 3 to four months.

[00:39:12]He does this every year, but this load, this dedicated run only lasts for about three or four months.

[00:39:19]So, what my plan is is to run this basically as hard as I can for the next 3 to four months. Just run the hell out of this thing for the next three or four months and uh just make as much as I can with this dedicated run. That's that's my plan.

[00:39:51]You know what I just thought of?

[00:39:55]I better park my car behind the trailer in case trailer utilization steals the trailer while I'm out over the road.

[00:40:05]Um, that way somebody can pick the trailer up.

[00:40:09]So, I might I might need to just put the car behind the trailer.

[00:40:14]Anyway, I I'll figure all that out. But yeah, I'm probably going to put the car behind the trailer just in case trailer utilization realizes that I'm not using the trailer and they're like, "Um, we're sending somebody to take that."

[00:40:32]And I would kind of just like to get rid of the trailer. I'll I might just send an email to trailer utilization, tell them to get that crap out of there. Send somebody to pick it up.

[00:40:43]I don't like the trailer anyway. It has a It has some kind of electrical issue with the ABS. The ABS light flickers. I don't like it.

[00:41:06]Um I just got All right. Hey, it's Walmart.

[00:41:10]Alawat Toyan is starting your order.

[00:41:19]This is something that Walmart has started doing. Used to every single one of my uh orders was like a Walmart person going around and getting my stuff. But here recently, every single order, every grocery delivery I've done from Walmart, the person who delivers the order is actually going into the store and doing the shopping and getting all of my stuff. That is ridiculous that they're only they only charge like $10 for delivery.

[00:41:49]$10 to deliver the groceries. That's reasonable. That's you know, it should probably be higher than that. um you're you're not making any money doing grocery delivery at $10 a delivery, but um if you also have to go in the store and do the shopping, that can take like 20 or 30 minutes to go around the store getting all these items and then you have to, you know, do the checkout and then deliver it after that. So, you're talking like an hour for 10 bucks and you're using your own fuel, your own vehicle, and all that stuff to do that.

[00:42:27]Um, I've asked uh Crazy Bags, he used to be a truck driver and he got fired from Prime for having a relationship, you know, uh with one of his students uh cuz he is a trainer at Prime.

[00:42:42]And uh he's been an Uber driver, Door Dash, Spark driver ever since. Uh, and I'll occasionally go in and watch him do deliveries. And he's, uh, I've asked him before, I was like, "Do you only get paid like how much of that $10 that I pay for Walmart delivery do you get paid?" And I think he said that they actually get paid extra if they go in the store and do the shopping and stuff like that. I think that he said that they actually get paid more than the $10 I'm charged for delivery, which makes sense. They should like if because part of the money that Walmart charges me for the grocery delivery is to pay for the employees in the store. And if they're using the delivery drivers to do the employees job in the store of collecting the items, then they should Walmart should be paying them a percentage of what I'm paying for the groceries to have that driver do that extra work. So, um I hope that they're getting paid extra. This is the largest grocery delivery I've done. uh I think ever like $300.

[00:43:46]Uh I normally am like extremely against tipping. I am I am one of those people that I used to tip all the time but whenever like all these delivery services became a thing and tipping became they started to try to normalize tipping where like every place asks you for a tip. When you go through the damn drive-thru, whenever you don't even talk with a person, you do your own order through a kiosk, it asks for a tip. I'm like, what the what do you want to tip for? I'm doing the work myself. Like, it tipping has gotten insane in the United States. Tipping culture in the United States needs to end. We need to stop subsidizing greedy companies. But even though I am just extremely against tipping, I added a $5 tip on this order just because of how big the order is.

[00:44:40]Um, and there's a couple of items on the order. Um, like one of the reasons the order is so expensive is I um ordered two 7gallon water jugs. Let me show you.

[00:44:54]Um just a second here. I'm getting it pulled up.

[00:45:16]All right. So, let's switch over to the browser. This is it. So, I bought two of these. It's $20 for one. You can do a two pack for 3578. These are two 7gallon water jugs. They're 7 gallons each. Why did I buy uh these seven gallon water jugs? Okay, so let's let's talk about what I do in the truck.

[00:45:42]So, normally I bring little onegon water jugs. I normally bring with me how many do I bring? I think it's four onegon water jug jugs is what I normally bring with me when I go out over the road. It might be three. It's either three or four onegon water jugs that I bring with me when I go over the road. And then I typically bring um six 12 packs of soda or like four 24 packs of soda. Six six to eight 12 packs of soda or like four 24 packs.

[00:46:16]And uh I typically only drink soda when I'm driving because it's in a container that I can, you know, I can just I have a little cooler in between the seats and I can just pop it open and grab a soda and just sip on that while I'm driving.

[00:46:31]It's a lot more convenient than like pulling over and pouring, you know, uh water or milk or whatever into a cup to drink while I'm driving.

[00:46:42]But what has happened is I've just gotten tired of paying the crazy prices for soda.

[00:46:50]Um, you know, even the name, you know, the the the like generic brand soda is $5 for a 12-pack.

[00:46:59]Uh, now it's $5 for a 12-pack. And it it was actually more expensive than that.

[00:47:04]The price has dropped recently. Um, I think it was it was closer to like seven or eight dollars for a 12-pack for the generic brand. Um, I think the price has actually dropped down. It's now $5 for a 12-pack, but I've just gotten tired of paying for for soda. It's It's just too expensive. So, I bought these water jugs. So, now I'm going to be taking um an extra 14 gallons of water with me over the road. And I can fill these up inside a truck stop. Um, I can just take these into the water fountain at the truck stop and fill these up. I do it all the time with my current water jugs.

[00:47:44]And I also bought um, let me uh um, drink mix.

[00:47:57]Where's it at? Where's that? Where's that? Um, let's do this. Great value drink mix.

[00:48:05]Not lemonade. Let's click on the lemonade. I can So, uh, this tropical punch drink mix right here.

[00:48:15]This right here makes um 26 quarts.

[00:48:19]There's four quarts to a gallon. So, this makes um about 13 gallons.

[00:48:28]Uh, makes up to 26 quarts. No, no, no.

[00:48:31]It's two quarts per gallon. Yeah, it's two quarts per gallon.

[00:48:35]It's four lers.

[00:48:39]All right, I'm getting all my stuff confused here. It's 13 gallons. This one container makes about 13 gallons. And you don't need to add anything else to it. This container is basically a container of sugar with a little bit of flavoring in it. So, 13 gallons.

[00:48:59]This one container that costs $5 can make 13 gallons of tropical punch.

[00:49:10]How does that compare to soda?

[00:49:13]Soda is $5 for a 12-pack. It's actually cheaper to buy it by the 12-pack than it is to buy it by the 24 pack. I don't know why it's cheaper. It doesn't make any sense. Usually, whenever you buy in larger quantities, you get a discount.

[00:49:27]but not with Sam's cola. So Sam's Choice generic brand cola is is $5 a 12-pack.

[00:49:35]So um a 12pack is 144 oz. A gallon is 128 O. So a 12-pack of soda is a little bit more than a um than a gallon. Not a lot more, but a little bit more than a gallon. So, if I take six 12 packs of soda with me, that's six gallons plus a little bit extra. So, we'll say that's seven gallons of soda.

[00:50:04]And that's going to cost me 6* 5, $30 for those six 12 packs. And it's about 7 gallons.

[00:50:13]one of these. I just mix it with water, which I get out of my faucet basically for free.

[00:50:20]And I'm getting 13 gallons, twice as much for $5.

[00:50:28]$5 instead of $30. And it would cost it's the equivalent of like $60 worth of soda for $5. It's $60 or it it's for $5 I'm getting 13 gallons of tropical punch versus um you know the uh uh the soda is going to cost me $60 for the equivalent and soda.

[00:50:54]So, it it's just So, the only thing that that sucks about this is I'm going to have to carry some kind of drink containers, some pretty big ones, and I will have to store them in my cooler. And then when I'm driving, I'll just pull out the drink container, drink out of it, and when I finish that one off, I'll grab the other drink container. So, I'll have to do a little bit of prep work, and I'm going to have to wash the containers. I've got a couple of uh like drink containers that I can bring with me. uh in the truck.

[00:51:26]But yeah, this is what I'm doing for um for drinks. Now, I'm not I'm not bringing soda with me on the truck this time.

[00:51:38]I'm just I bought those water containers and I'm just going to bring um a lot more water with me instead of soda. And I'm just going to drink the Hawaiian punch. the generic brand Tropical Punch stuff.

[00:51:58]And that's what I'm going to drink out over the road instead of soda. So anyway, um I have to go pick up this loaded trailer on Thursday. I have the grocery delivery coming today. I have uh some shipments arriving on Wednesday.

[00:52:12]Hopefully they're not late, but what I have being delivered on Wednesday, what is it that I I can't even remember what I have being delivered on Wednesday. Let me go back to Walmart and see what it is that's being delivered on Wednesday.

[00:52:26]Oh, I just remembered one thing that's being delivered on Wednesday and that's going to suck is I can't do meal prep because I ordered containers for meal prep and that's one of the things that's not going to arrive till Wednesday.

[00:52:43]So, I'm not going to have time to do meal prep.

[00:52:48]I guess I could like cook the meals, uh, the stuff on Tuesday and then when the containers arrive on Wednesday, then I can move it over into the container. So, I can do all the cooking on Tuesday and then that's what I'll do. That's what I'll do.

[00:53:06]All right. Where in the hell is my order?

[00:53:13]Okay, let's view details. Okay. So, it's um Okay. So, iced tea and Yeah. So, it's just iced tea, which I don't take out over the truck with me.

[00:53:25]That's that's an item for here at the house is uh iced tea bags.

[00:53:32]And then the uh I'll show you the containers. Now, this is not the exact brand of containers that I normally buy.

[00:53:46]These are the same size.

[00:53:50]They're slightly different than the normal than the containers that I normally buy. They're a little bit different, but this is the type of container I normally purchase. I buy them in these big 50 packs and they are um uh reusable and disposable and they should be biodegradable cuz I I made sure that they were biodegradable last time I bought them, but this is a different brand that I'm buying this time. So, I hope that they're biodegradable.

[00:54:38]The ones I normally buy are biodegradable.

[00:54:41]But yeah, I just I'll I'll cook food and then I'll put it in these containers and then stick it in the freezer, freeze it.

[00:54:49]Um I've tried several different things, you know. I've done like hamburger helper, um, dirty rice, macaroni and cheese, fried potatoes, uh, chicken, um, beans.

[00:55:10]Beans is the only thing that really comes out tasting exactly the same after it's been frozen.

[00:55:17]Everything else tastes different. Like even chicken comes out rubbery after it's been frozen.

[00:55:26]Everything tastes different after it's been frozen. So, I generally stick with beans. Whenever I do these uh uh meal preps, I generally stick with beans because it's the only thing that tastes like exactly the same after it's been frozen as it did before it was frozen.

[00:55:48]So, yeah, I'll probably cook a a pot of beans on Tuesday.

[00:55:53]I I'm going to do barbecue beans this time. I normally do pinto beans, but this time I think I'm going to do barbecue beans. I'm going to do barbecue beans this time.

[00:56:05]Yeah, that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to do barbecue beans.

[00:56:10]So, yeah, today's Monday. Tomorrow, Tuesday, I need to do a bunch of meal prep and just get everything ready for the truck. Um, I might need to do two trips to the truck. I really hate to do two trips with as high as fuel prices are, but I think I'm going to need to do two two trips. So, I'm probably going to go to the truck.

[00:56:39]Um, on Tuesday, tomorrow, I might make a a trip to the truck and load it up with stuff and just make sure everything's good to go with the truck so there's no surprises when I leave. So, I might run down to the truck and get it pre-loaded with a whole bunch of stuff tomorrow.

[00:56:56]And then, um, do a final delivery and everything ready to go. Um, I don't know when I'm going to head down to Borgger.

[00:57:04]I might head down there Wednesday night, Thursday morning. I don't know what I'm going to do.

[00:57:09]I'll probably end up leaving like early Thursday morning, late Wednesday night, like midnight, 1:00 a.m., something like that.

[00:57:19]I don't know. It depends on where I'm going and and know all kinds of things and what the hours of the place are that I'm I'm picking the trailer up from. I I'll figure it all out. But I've got a couple of days to get things in order.

[00:57:34]So, anyway, let's go back over to the spreadsheet.

[00:57:45]So, yeah. Um, this is just information based off of what the agent told me and being fairly conservative with the numbers. The agent was really, really pushing the idea that you can run some massive miles on this account. He was saying that most of the people who run this account do really really big miles.

[00:58:08]He said that like $10,000 a week is fairly normal on this account. $10,000 a week um uh $8 to $10,000 a week, which what would 8 to $10,000 a week be? 8,000 would be um so it's 240. So 310 310.

[00:58:45]So, a $10,000 uh dollar week would be um let me let me figure out how to math this to reverse it.

[00:59:07]So, that would be a 3,200 mile week, 3,225 miles. would be a $10,000 week. Full rate. Full rate. Uh what would 8,000 be?

[00:59:25]Oh, I I hit a button too many times. So, uh let's do 8,000 / 310.

[00:59:33]So, that would be a 2580 mile week.

[00:59:37]So, it sounds like the people that are running this account are doing between 2500 and 3,300 miles per week on average.

[00:59:47]That's that's the range that most of the people are running on this account is 2500 to 3300 miles per week, which sounds really normal. Uh, with most drivers, if you just let them run as hard as they want, um, they're probably going to do somewhere in that range, 2500 to 3,300 miles a week. You're going to have outliers that are doing like, you know, 1,500 to 2,000 mi a week, and you're going to have outliers on the top end that are doing like 3500 to 4,000 m a week. But most drivers would probably fall in that range of 2500 to 3,300 miles a week. I think most drivers would be comfortable. I think the average mileage most drivers would be comfortable with in a week if they were just allowed to run as hard as they wanted. Um, and they were getting paid a decent rate per mile, the rate per mile would would would affect things. Like if you were paying somebody $10,000 per mile, then they're going to run a lot of miles. But if you're paying them hardly anything per mile, they're not going to try really hard. So, if you're paying them like a a decent solid rate per mile, then I think 2,800 miles per week is going to be close to your average that most drivers are running around 2,800 miles a week, which is the range that that these are falling into from uh from what the agent is saying that that that's that's the range that that his uh his drivers are falling into.

[01:01:26]So, what he's telling me seems to jive.

[01:01:28]It seems to add up.

[01:01:33]So, yeah, it's looking like we could have some fairly solid solid numbers.

[01:01:41]Could be making a decent amount of money per week. Not going to have any free time, which sorry, my ear just itch. It's like, you know, you have like it feels like somebody tickles the inside of your of your ear.

[01:01:55]Just out of nowhere, it felt like somebody tickled the inside of my ear.

[01:01:58]It's probably one of my ear hairs just caught a wind, you know, and moved around or something like that. But um yeah, 3,000 miles a week should be my goal. And that would be 7,140 gross to the truck and 4,390 after fuel cost. This is these numbers are sounding a lot better to me than the Ford account. The Ford account was going to be like $1,000 less per week.

[01:02:35]So yeah, this is sounding like pretty pretty damn good. And if I'm able to do like 3,500 miles in a week, oh my goodness, if I'm able to average 3,500 miles a week, getting five grand a week after fuel cost, that's going to be really solid.

[01:03:02]Like this isn't anything crazy. Um me making five grand a week after fuel cost, that's something that I almost always do whenever I take loads from Dallas to to um up to the Portland area. Um you know, those are like 2,000 milei loads. I'm only doing like 2,000 miles and a lot of the times I'm making like $7,000.

[01:03:26]Uh well, they're paying like$7,000 to 8,000 full rate. So, I'm making5 to $6,000 gross to the truck. And my fuel cost has only been like, I don't know, at somewhere around 30 cents a mile, 35 cents a mile fuel cost. Let me see.

[01:03:51]Let me let me put some numbers in here.

[01:03:53]Fuel price of two Let's do 240 and miles per gallon about 7 miles per gallon. So yeah, 34 cents a mile fuel cost.

[01:04:15]Um so that would be roughly a third. So that would be uh $300 per,000 miles. So it' be like $600 around. We'll go with 700. $700 fuel cost on that load and I'm making like five or six grand to the truck. So, yeah, making like five grand a in a week after fuel cost is not like that big of a deal. I do that all the time.

[01:04:48]Um, and that's only doing 2,000 miles in a week. Like I can make five grand after fuel cost on just about any load that I take from Dallas to the Portland, Seattle area.

[01:05:01]That's the way it used to be before the fuel cost went through the roof. And that's the reason that I'm not look I I I'm I'm not going to Portland, the Portland Seattle area right now, is because the fuel cost has gone up so dramatically that like instead of it costing me $700 in fuel to drive from Dallas to Portland, now it's going to cost me um let's do like like what what's the average fuel price? It's probably closer to $6 a gallon.

[01:05:34]and miles per gallon. Keep it the same.

[01:05:35]So 85 cents a mile. So it's costing me $850. $860 per,000 miles. So now it's costing me 17 $1,720.

[01:05:50]So that load that's paying me like $5,500, I'm now having to spend $1,700 on fuel instead of $700 on fuel to only go 2,000 miles to Portland from Dallas.

[01:06:07]Like 2,000 mi, I'm spending $1,700 on fuel. That's crazy.

[01:06:14]Like it was bad enough spending $700 on fuel to go 2,000 miles. now to spend 1,700.

[01:06:21]That's crazy.

[01:06:26]But yeah, I've got to stay away from those uh insane fuel prices over on the West Coast. And they're likely only going to get worse because what little fuel we received from the straight of Hormuz in the United States, we receive very little. But it, as far as I remember, it all goes to the West Coast.

[01:06:46]So the west coast is they already have insane fuel prices and they are feeling the brunt of the straight of hormuz as far as the United States goes. That's the area that's most affected by it.

[01:07:00]So it's just a bad place to be. We want to stay away from the west coast right now um with all of this volatility in the fuel market. It would be really crazy to get over there to the West Coast and then fuel prices jump up by $2 a gallon overnight and it's going to take a week or two for fuel search charge to catch up with that and you could just have to eat that $2 a gallon that fuel price like that that can wipe you out. Like that gets pretty bad pretty quick.

[01:07:34]So yeah, this looks like a really good dedicated run.

[01:07:41]Be a lot better if fuel wasn't so expensive, but even with the high fuel prices, this is looking like a good dedicated run, but we'll see the details once I start running it. Anyway, let's wrap up this video. Um, my grocery delivery should be here any minute. I have not gotten an update from Walmart aside from the person is shopping for my order. It is a pretty big order. So, it might take Ola Watton a while to do the $300 order. But, uh, you know, it's $300, but it's, uh, a a big part of the price is like $40 of that 300 or those two water jugs.

[01:08:33]So, yeah, I need to get those things and uh, clean them out. I need to put water, bleach water in there and get them sanitized and get them nice and cleaned out and ready to take to the truck.

[01:08:52]Yeah, I need to I'm going to have to do two trips to the truck, especially with those water jugs. Those water jugs are going to take up a ton of room in my tiny little car.

[01:09:08]I was just trying to think if there if maybe I should bobtail the truck over here and just leave from the house.

[01:09:13]bobtail, but Bill, my neighbor, is a tattletail and you're not allowed to have commercial vehicles on residential streets in Oklahoma City.

[01:09:26]Um, I used to park my truck in front of my house and uh my neighbor Bill complained a lot and finally I had a cop show up at my house and he was like, "Uh, is that truck out there yours?" I was like, "Yep." And he said, "Um, could you like park it somewhere else cuz your neighbor just keeps complaining and he won't stop.

[01:09:54]The cops The cops didn't want to deal with it, but my neighbor just complains so much." Bill is like a hundred years old and he's the village tattletail. He reports everyone in the neighborhood for everything. He thinks that the the city uh ordinance on grass is 6 in. So if your grass gets over 6 in, Bill reports you to the city. It's 12 in. 12 in is is the city ordinance. But Bill reports you if it goes over 6 in. Bill reports everybody for everything. And he will not die. Like he was 90 years old whenever I moved in over here. And I've been living here for over 10 years. I've been living here for like 13 years. He has to be over a hundred years old. And I still see the out there riding his lawn mower, mowing his grass. He's over a hundred years old and he still mows his own lawn.

[01:10:56]I haven't seen him this summer. He might not be alive anymore. I have not seen him mowing this summer, but I might just not have catched him, you know, caught him. I might not have caught him. Um, but anyway, yeah, it's uh I'm I'm kind of excited about this this dedicated run. I mean, it's not paying crazy awesome money.

[01:11:22]Like, I'm not making $3 a mile gross to the truck, but the rate per mile is pretty good.

[01:11:30]It's actually pretty decent for a dedicated run. Most dedicated runs are paying next to nothing. Like the Ford account, that thing's only paying a$130 a mile on the line.

[01:11:45]The only thing that's making that thing pay anything worth a dam is that it's paying.7 cents a mile, 68 cents a mile on fuel search charge. So, it takes the total pay from $130 a mile to $1.98 a mile.

[01:12:00]That's not good. That's bad.

[01:12:04]So, yeah, this this load sounds like it it could be really really nice. I'm I hope I'm able to run a lot of miles while this run is active over the next approximately 3 to 4 months. The agent told me that these uh loads typically last 3 to 4 months, and he said it just started up. I asked him I I said, "Okay, well, how long's it been going? Is Is it just now starting?" That 3 to four month clock. He said, "Yeah, it's just now starting."

[01:12:35]So, it's just now starting and it should last 3 to 4 months. So, 3 to 4 months of potentially making somewhere in the ballpark of like on here at the 3,000 mi a week after fuel cost, I have it at $18,274.

[01:12:54]We'll say 15 grand a month. 15 grand a month after fuel cost for 3 or 4 months. Uh that could be really good. That's not amazing for an owner operator, but given how bad the market is and how high the fuel cost is, uh 3 to four months, that's, you know, if it goes for four months, that's roughly, uh, you know, 15 grand a month. That would be $60,000 after fuel cost over the course of 4 months. I could make I can make 60 grand after fuel cost over four months.

[01:13:36]That's that could be pretty nice.

[01:13:39]That could be, you know, really nice.

[01:13:45]Not amazing, but it's pretty good.

[01:13:51]That fuel cost is just so high. That is crazy high fuel cost. And I unfortunately I think it's going to get higher. But hopefully the fuel search charge on this dedicated account will keep rising with fuel cost.

[01:14:09]Oh wow. I just got a notice that my delivery is going to be arriving in about 10 minutes. Uh so there were no uh substitutions. There were no items that were cancelled that were unavailable.

[01:14:21]That's odd. Um here recently I've on almost every grocery order that I've done, there have been missing, you know, items that weren't available, shortages.

[01:14:32]Uh you know, they're out of milk, out of whatever. You know, there's always something out of tomatoes, out of lettuce, out of whatever it is that I'm ordering. Tons of things that they're out of.

[01:14:52]Yeah. So, I'm I should be making a lot more money on this dedicated run, but I was getting really excited about that Ford dedicated run because I was I was starting to do the trip plan and everything on it. And check this out.

[01:15:04]Let me let me switch back over here to the map. Um, this is the pro just outside just east of Kansas City that has the cheapest fuel on the entire route. This is where I was going to be fueling up all the time. And look at this massive amazing parking lot. It's diagonal parking, but they have it to where it's sight side back. I don't know why all these truck stops are putting their diagonal parking as blindside back. They're expecting that we're going to nose into parking spots, which truck drivers don't do that.

[01:15:39]It's really difficult and dangerous to nose in to a diagonal spot um as a truck driver. So, they have these set up as sight side back diagonal spots, which make it a lot easier to back into. And there's tons of parking here.

[01:15:57]And then across the street, there's a TA with even more parking.

[01:16:02]And then right here, there's a quick trip that has even more truck parking.

[01:16:14]And then there's an econo lodge, a hotel right here that has a truck parking lot.

[01:16:20]And then we have a Walmart right here.

[01:16:22]So I can restock groceries at Walmart.

[01:16:26]And they have a section over here at the Walmart with truck parking spots. I don't think trucks are supposed to park here, but you can see obviously trucks are parking here. So, I could swing into this Walmart. Like, I was getting really excited about the Ford dedicated run about all of the possibilities here.

[01:16:43]Here's a Speed Co. so I could get trailers worked on right here at the Speed Co. And then the TA also has their own shop right here at the pro. And then let's see if they have a shop across the street. It doesn't look like this one across the street has a shop, which that would be weird for uh TA and Pro right next door to each other to both have shops. Some of them do. Um but yeah, that's like this was going to work out really well.

[01:17:15]Uh having a Walmart right there, I can restock groceries and stuff like that.

[01:17:18]That was like this was going to be awesome.

[01:17:22]Um, so yeah, I'm a little bit bummed out that I'm not going to be doing the Ford dedicated.

[01:17:29]Uh, I would highly recommend the Ford dedicated. You know, crunch the numbers on your business and see if it makes business sense for you because I crunch the numbers on the the Ford dedicated run. And for me, because my expenses are so low, I can make a $1.98 a mile gross to the truck work. With how high fuel cost has gotten, a lot of people are not going to be able to make a $1.98 a mile gross to the truck work right now.

[01:17:57]Normally, 3 months ago, before the fuel prices got insane, most of us could make a $1.98 a mile gross to the truck work.

[01:18:04]But right now with these insane fuel prices, I don't think many trucks can make a $1.98 a mile work. Um, you might be able to scrape by and pay your bills, but you're not going to be making much of any money. You might be able to just squeak by. That's it.

[01:18:24]Um, but anyway, um, since I'm not going to be going for the Ford dedicated run, um, you know, feel free to go for it and we don't have to compete against each other on it anymore. you know, it's it's not really in my best interest to cover these things in the videos, the things that I'm doing or that I'm planning on doing because that just creates more competition for me. If I go out and tell everybody about this Ford dedicated run, I crunch the numbers for them, I show every everything with it, and then I have like a hundred Landstar drivers all go and get that run, now I can't get it.

[01:19:05]like I did all all the leg work on it and now I can't go do the run because I'm I'm competing with everybody else.

[01:19:13]Uh so it's really not in my best interest to make these videos um and explain to people all these dedicated runs, all these things that are out here because it just creates more competition for me. It's best for me to just keep that information to myself um so I don't have to compete with you you folks on this stuff.

[01:19:33]Um, but you know, hey, what whatever I I put it out there. All right, the car is pulling up right now with Nope, that's not them. Or they accidentally drove past my house, which happens. I haven't had it happen lately, but back when Uber started becoming like a pretty big deal around the lockdowns, around the time of the lockdown, that was before the lockdowns, when Uber started becoming like Uber and Door Dash and all that stuff started becoming like a big deal uh in like around 2018 or so, there was numerous times, probably like five times over the course of a year or two where I had people just drive around with my order like not a grocery this was back before I was doing grocery this was back before they did grocery delivery you the only grocery delivery back then was next cart and I would I wouldn't use that service because of how insane it was it was just they have a 30% mark markup on the cost of the food so if you buy $100 worth of food they'll charge you $130 for it plus they charge you like you a $10 $15 delivery fee, $20 delivery fee, and then they expect a tip on top of that. So, you're paying like $50 for them to deliver $100 worth of food to you. It is next cart was insane.

[01:21:01]But anyway, um I had delivery drivers that were like delivering me McDonald's or something and they would just get lost in the neighborhood driving around in circles for 20, 30 minutes and then the order would cancel. I had one of them call me up crying. Some girl called me up crying.

[01:21:19]Like, I shouldn't laugh. I should not laugh. But this girl drove around for like a half hour in the neighborhood.

[01:21:26]And then she called me up crying and said that she was sorry and she was going to cancel my order because she couldn't find my house.

[01:21:37]Like how do how do people function in society if you cannot find somebody's house with a GPS system?

[01:21:48]Like how do these people survive? Like how have you lived this long?

[01:21:53]It's just it's crazy, man. Like I grew up like before cell phones and GPS were a thing. Like in the '9s when I was a teenager, um, cell phones weren't really a thing.

[01:22:08]Yes, there were a few people that had cell phones. Very few people had cell phones, and the very few people that did have cell phones typically only had them for emergency use.

[01:22:21]Uh, because it cost like a dollar a minute to make a local phone call on a cell phone back then.

[01:22:29]And to make a longdistance phone call, I have no idea how much that would have been. That that was crazy. But just like a local phone call was like a dollar a minute on a cell phone. And it wasn't until the late '9s that they started coming up with these uh plans where you got like 400 minutes for like $50 a month. you only had like 400 minutes that you could use over the course of a month for like $50.

[01:23:00]And that's when everybody started buying cell phones. And then after a couple of years, it was like 400 anytime minutes and unlimited nights and weekends. And then even more people started buying cell phones. And I'm not sure exactly when it transitioned to just like unlimited calls anywhere in the in the country, like unlimited long distance, unlimited local. Um I think that happened somewhere in the early 2000s.

[01:23:31]It didn't take long. It was like probably somewhere around 2005 to 2010 is right around the time when they stopped charging extra for long distance and they stopped uh like limiting the number of minutes the talk time minutes.

[01:23:49]Anyway, why did I even get onto that? Oh yeah, I was talking about these delivery drivers getting lost. Yeah, it's uh like I uh times things were a lot harder, you know, when I was younger and I I don't know how some of these people could like they wouldn't have survived back then.

[01:24:07]Like you can't find your way around with a GPS. Like that is crazy that somebody cannot find my my house with a GPS. Uh so anyway, um I've got a ton of stuff to do over the next few days to get prepped and ready to go back out over the road. I'm excited. Uh let's check the news real quick and see if there's any crazy new information in the world. Um, nope. Just a bunch of like stuff that should probably be on entertainment news or national enquire or some crap. Let's check Alazer. Alazer, I think, is United Arab Emirates.

[01:24:52]And since they are in the middle of the war, you're getting a lot of updates from them about what's going on. So, let's see what they've got going on.

[01:25:02]Iran says ready to respond to any aggression warns US will be surprised.

[01:25:07]So Iran is saying Iran's been making threats for a while that if the United States attacks them again that um their response is going to be significant and Iran is claiming that they have some weapons that we we haven't uh seen and uh they're going to start using them if the fighting breaks back up. And a lot of people are laughing about that and they're like, "Yeah, Iran always says that kind of crap." Well, Iran did surprise um the United States and Israel.

[01:25:43]Uh last time, you know, we were fighting, there were two major surprises. Number one is range. Iran launched a missile to I think it was Diego Garcia that was like 4,000 kilometers away.

[01:25:59]Was it 4,000 or 2,000 km? I can't remember. It was twice as far as the US and Israel thought they were capable of launching a missile.

[01:26:10]And Iran basically put on display that all of those aircraft carriers that we thought were out of missile range were actually in Iran's missile range. And Iran was showing us that they were in missile range and that they had missiles capable of reaching out and touching us.

[01:26:27]That was one surprise. Another surprise were those MVs, those intermediate range uh multiple uh in uh multiple independent re-entry vehicles that uh Israel started telling everybody were cluster bombs. They weren't cluster bombs. They're MVs. It's a um several uh missiles or several uh projectiles within a uh a missile. Um, we don't call our ballistic missiles um, cluster bombs. We call them MVs.

[01:27:01]But Israel is trying was trying to brand uh Iran's MVs, their IND their intermediate MVs as cluster bombs because they were making the uh they were trying to get everybody to think that it was some kind of uh um like they were breaking international laws or something like that cuz cluster munitions are frowned upon because they're indiscriminate munitions. You just drop them over an area and they just indiscriminately hit things. That's not what these things are. They were hitting a large area, but it was a targeted area. Um, and so they're they're mers. Damn. This is that a guy or a girl?

[01:27:48]It's got to be a guy.

[01:27:51]Nope, that's a woman. It's got boobs.

[01:27:56]Shaved head, but it's She is having a hell of a conversation on her phone.

[01:28:10]I thought it was a guy until I saw it had boobs.

[01:28:18]Just focus on getting my damn groceries out of your car, please, instead of talking on your phone.

[01:28:29]But um yeah, she was trying to get everything in a single load. That's the reason I thought it was a guy is like, "Man, you're spending a lot of time at the back of the car." And she was like putting bag after bag after bag after bag on her arm. She was trying to like one trip it, which is a guy thing. Guys, whenever they're taking groceries in the house from the car, they try to get everything in a single trip.

[01:29:00]But, uh, yeah. Any anyway, I need to go put the groceries in the refrigerator and start doing meal prep and other things to get ready to go out over the road. So, yeah, I just want to give you, um, an update video. Uh, because right after I made the last load board video where I was looking for a load, looking at that Ford dedicated load again and trying to decide if I was going to do it, right after that, I got this dedicated run. So, um, she is having a really animated conversation on her phone.

[01:29:36]I don't know why people talk on their phone on speaker, but it seems like a lot of people do that these days is that they talk on speaker. So, they'll be holding the phone out in front of them like this right here talking and it's really obnoxious. I don't want to listen to other people's phone conversation.

[01:29:56]And uh I don't know. I think it's people that want attention or something like that.

[01:30:03]But yeah, that's what she's doing. She's walking around holding the phone out like this, having a conversation, waving her arms around and stuff, pointing at things. And imagine somebody doing like doing that back in the 90s, back before cell phones were very common. People think she was crazy. Yeah, there's some lunatic out there just like having a conversation with her herself in your front lawn.

[01:30:40]Man, she's taking forever to unload because she's spending so much time talking.

[01:30:47]I I don't want to name and shame or I don't want to show this person and uh show you my cameras and stuff uh because I you know I don't want to like I don't want to I don't want to do that.

[01:31:03]But anyway, um yeah, let's wrap up this video. Uh, I'll I'll be making lots of update videos when I find out more information on exactly the details on the load, what it's like to do the the load and stuff like that. And if anybody has ever hauled a uh, you know, a belly dump, I think it's grain. I'm pretty sure it's grain. I'm not 100% sure it's grain, but I'm pretty sure it's grain that I'm going to be hauling. And I'm pretty sure it's a belly dump. I'm not even 100% sure it's a belly dump.

[01:31:35]Um, but if anybody has any, it looks like she's finished. She just rang the doorbell. Now she's taking the picture.

[01:31:43]And once she drives away, I'll go out there and get it. Um, if you have any any um suggestions on extra things, like things that are different, things that I need to inspect on my pre-trip, post-trip on a belly dump that's different than a dry van. Is there anything else that I need to be looking at? Uh, feel free to throw in a comment with any suggestions on things that I need to know about belly dumps cuz I don't know anything about belly dumps and I have a feeling that they're not going to tell me anything about belly dumps.

[01:32:21]So, uh, maybe what I'll do is if I run into other drivers at these pickup and deliveries, I'll ask them and I'll probably get other drivers that have never hauled a belly dump before that are like, I don't know, man. I just haul it. I check lights, tires, mud flaps just like I do with a dry van. That's probably the response I'm going to get is, uh, you know, whatever.

[01:32:47]you know, do I need to make sure that like uh the the thing that keeps the belly dump closed, the latch is locked in or something so that it doesn't like hit a bump and then just start dumping crap all over the place. Things like that. Like, is there anything like that that I need to be checking? Anyway, I need to go bring my groceries in. Have a good one. And uh there will definitely be more update videos as I get more information on this dedicated run. I should be back out over the road probably around uh Thursday or Friday.

[01:33:15]So, anyway, have a good one. Bye.