I charge a flat rate out of or to Cynthiana from 6 Stockyards mostly working out of two of them. On long hauls I charge 1.57 a loaded mile or one way haul, with a min of 100 miles.<br><br>I can haul up to 26 feeder cattle with an avg weight of 500# in my 24' Featherlite. An avg load for me is about 17-22 head. I took one cow last night to a stockyard and charge the same price as if I had 26 head. You got to figure in your time plus fuel, it really doesn't take no longer loading 1 then 20 and same as unloading.<br><br>The stockyard I went to last night can unload 5 trucks at once, so you don't have much time setting and waiting there. I have taken loads up to the biggest stockyard in KY which is in Lexington Ky and waited 2 hrs to unload. I nomally do 99% of my hauling the night before a sale and still have to wait sometimes to unload. <br>Lexington Stockyards biggest day of recieving cattle is on Sunday for Monday sales, they sale Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday every week. ANother stockyard sales every Thursday. I got another that sales every Wed night and Saturday morning. One of the best places to buy goats and bottle calves sales every Saturday. Alot of chances within an hour of Cynthiana to buy and sale cattle just about everyday of the week.<br>Sorry I got long winded<br>Ricki

 

We were charging $1.75 a loaded mile. We only worked speacial sales and dispersals. I was running a Gooseneck brand 32x6 with double gates and a rear slide.<br><br>For example we worked a Hereford sale in Fredricksburg.<br><br>My first load out was 1 cow going to Luckenbach. Charged him 1.75 mile. In the middle and last gate I had a rather large bull going just north of Schulenburg and a small bull and a few cows going to Sealey. I stacked in my drop order and charged them whole milage.<br><br>Wnet back to fredricksburg that night and slept in my truck in front of the loading chute. First in First out.<br><br>Stack'em in and coordinate your stops and you can make some cash.<br><br>My best weekend was the Tom Brothers Black Angus Disperal.<br>Took 1 load to Mississippi. I racked in about $1,200 from Saturday night to Monday mid-day.<br><br>We had flyers put up and the auctions and wore BRIGHT yellow shirts. Our flyers stated &quot;Look for the Yellow shirts&quot;<br>It worked rather well.