Yeah, when we were running freight we used it all the time. It really depends on what you're looking for. We would get 2 or 3 partials to build a load. That's kinda why we quit doing freight. It could take quit a few days to put together a decent load. We would end up sitting 3-4 days at a time trying to get something that paid. With cars we rarely are ever sitting for even half a day, and they pay pretty damn good up here!! We run 3 cars now and are almost always at $1.80+ a mile and home almost every night so our expenses are less as well!
AWESOME! That actually sounds like a very good thing you have going for yourselves!
I know the feeling of sitting around waiting for a load, even know i only did it for a few months. There were times that we sat in a city 600 miles from home for a week (without any per-diems). It was also so nasty to deal with dead heading just knowing that you could be getting paid to travel the same direction. Getting a load worth taking without waiting around is GOLDEN!
You are actually making a good amount of money compared to where i was in the Sprinter expediting. Although im sure working under a load finding company took up a lot of my profit, we weren't making shit! If we got $.90 a loaded mile (including fuel), we were pretty happy. Then a lot of times, the more mileage the load was, the more money you would make, but then the less likely you'll find a return load because you're not in the core area.
Being home at night is also golden. We used to have to dead head home every weekend just to be able to sleep in a bed. It was always going against the grain, but as they say "there is no place like home".
I have always said that if push came to shove, ide do it again though. I would just change some things up and maybe go a different route with the vehicle- either a 24' box or a car hauler like you.
