hauling log prices

[timberjack97]

i was wondering a fair price to haul logs  45 miles its a good haul good roads our price of diesel is 3.99  a gallon now any replies was be apreciated

[Autocar]

I get ten cents a board foot for hauling  ;)

[furltech]

Good day to you ,i was just wondering if you are just getting started in the woods or have you been at it a while because the one good piece of advice i can give you is take a day or two and seek out the old fellows around and just spend some time listening to them and i am sure you will get answers to all your questions ,it is hard to help you out because every situation is different .with the numbers you were quoting earlier i would be out of business in a month . i do realize that it is apples and oranges with my being in nova scotia .I also must add that even though i have been doing this for what seems like forever some weeks .whenever i have had a question on gear or anything this is the first place i have asked for help and havent been steered wrong yet .

[timberjack97]

no  i ve been in business for 20 years  he wants 300 a load to haul 45 miles is that a fair rate to pay him?

[NWP]

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[smwwoody]

I get $60.00/ MBF international inside 30 miles.   that is to load and haul

[mrpink]

when I was driving a log truck a few years back, the truck got paid 13 cents per ton per mile wit a 40 mile min. fuel at the time was about $3.20 per gallon I believe.

so for your 45 mile haul at 25 tons per load that would be .13*25= 3.25 per mile *45= $146.25. $300 seems high to me

[beenthere]

timberjack97

Where are you located?

I've been trying to follow your questions, but am not getting very far understanding what you are after. Granted, I'm not cutting and hauling, but I might know more of the answers if I were in the business for 20 years. Don't mean that as an insult, but what's up?

[furltech]

i would think you would just pay the rates you have been from the last twenty years ,should be an easy figure

[Ford_man]

I have been Hauling Peat, Potting soil, and other nursery items this spring. I haul 44000# in a van trailer. I get $325 min. some trips are only 25 miles but average about 60 miles. they load it and the customer unloads it,I don't have to tie it down , just close the doors and go.

[Kemper]

$300 seems like a lot to me. I wouldn't pay that per load, maybe a day if you can get multiple loads out.

[Bobus2003]

Different part of the country, but here its anywhere from $4-$9/ton to have a truck haul wood.. on average its $300 a load

[Ed_K]

I'm paying $250. for 25mi and $300.for over 50 and $0 for loads to canada

[lumberjack48]

tj97 your paying 12 a ton now, call the mill an get their rates

[Corley5]

$15.00 a cord up to 40 miles is the going rate around here.

[stavebuyer]

Like most things in the wholesale wood business; logging and trucking rates are generally less than they need to be. A truck asking $300 for 45 miles around here wouldn't get much work..delivered pulpwood is in the low $20.00's...$12 a ton for hauling wouldn't leave much for stumpage and logging.