what to charge for trucking?

[librarian]

What is a reasonable formula to calculate how much to charge a customer to haul cattle?
Nothing fancy, but several hundred miles farm to farm.

 

[Gargan]

$1.50-$2.00/ loaded mile, is what I usually get quoted. Depends on how much of a load u have to determine which end of the spectrum ur on.

 

[LLBUX]

Sent or bought cattle to California, South Carolina and Vermont for $400/head.
I am in Illinois.

This is with Latham and one other trucking company.

I caught them when they had a load headed east or west.

I can't do it for that, that is for sure.