Getting SUM from 2 different tables into one result - sql

Question

I have been trying to get this to work for 12 hrs now and I cannot :-( Can someone please show me how I can get the ssnumber to group and get the total for each ssnumber.
Here is what I have now. In Table number 1 I have this code
SELECT
UNIT_NO, SUM(RATEB) AS TOTALRTE
FROM TABLE1
WHERE
TRUCK_PAID = 1
AND PICK_UP_DATE >= '(fromdate)'
AND PICK_UP_DATE <= '(todate)'
GROUP BY
UNIT_NO
ORDER BY
UNIT_NO
But table number 2 is where the ssnumber column is, so what I'm trying to do is the rateB sum from all of the loads for each unit_no and then group them and then go into table number 2 and group the ssnumber with the unit number from table number 1 and sum the rateB from table number 1.
Something like this (see below) but its not working :-(
SELECT
UNIT_NO, SUM(RATEB)
FROM
TABLE1
WHERE
TRUCK_PAID = 1
AND PICK_UP_DATE >= '(fromdate)'
AND PICK_UP_DATE <= '(todate)'
GROUP BY
UNIT_NO
JOIN
TABLE TABLE1.UNIT_NO = TABLE2.UNIT_NO GROUP BY TABLE2.SS_NUM
or
SELECT
UNIT_NO, SUM(RATEB) AS TOTALRATE
FROM
TABLE1
GROUP BY
UNIT_NO
JOIN
TRUCKS ON (TABLE1.UNIT_NO = TABLE2.UNIT_NO)
GROUP BY
TABLE2.SSNUMBER
Thank you guys so much for any help...

Answer 1

As requested, it is hard to really understand what you are trying to accomplish without more info about table2 and maybe an example of what you are expecting. However, what I got from your description is that you are trying to accomplish something like this?
SELECT UNIT_NO, TOTALRTE, TOTALLDSRTE
FROM
(
SELECT UNIT_NO,SUM(RATEB) AS TOTALRTE
FROM LOADS
GROUP BY UNIT_NO
) AS tbl1
JOIN
(
SELECT SS_NUM, SUM(RATEB) AS TOTALLDSRTE
FROM LOADS
GROUP BY SS_NUM
) AS tbl2
ON tbl1.UNIT_NO = tbl2.SS_NUM

Answer 2

I would suggest instead of getting data from two select queries in one select query, try to fetch them as separate queries. This saves a lot of time. That, or you can create a table for the result and update the result of each query into the table.