Yesterday 10/20/2014 I made 39 calls to various brokers on the Get loaded load board looking for a load out of central Texas. NO ONE HAD ANY RATES OVER $1.50 per mile. Most brokers would not negotiate the rates at all. I refused them all. Yes there is trucks that will haul for cheap, but you get what you pay for. My truck will not move for $2 a mile or more. What is the deal here? Do the shippers not want to pay or is the brokers trying to keep the $$. A lot of the loads are still listed & need to be moved but for ridiculously low rates.
Attention All Brokers Landstar,TQL,Crowley,Fox,Sentry,Global,C H Robinson,KLX,Epes,
Discussion in 'Freight Broker Forum' started by Straitliner, Oct 21, 2014.
Page 1 of 7
-
-
Trucking Jobs in 30 seconds
Every month 400 people find a job with the help of TruckersReport.
-
Central texas?..Will going south help you?
I don't own a truck but every time I empty out in Dallas they send me south to McAllen to reload.
The company I drive for doesn't haul much cheap freight so it must pay a little better down there..
Although now that I think about it we rarely ever go to Texas anymore(must be why?)Straitliner Thanks this. -
reefer75 and Straitliner Thank this.
-
So you are PO'd because they won't budge on $1.50 and you follow that up with your truck won't move for less than $2.00. Seems to me you are angry at someone for doing the exact same thing you do yourself.
Anyone that has been doing this for a while knows TX is a black hole and you may have to take a low paying load out to get back into the good lanes. If you don't want to do that then that's your decision, enjoy the TxMex. -
bbone Thanks this.
-
ChromeNut Thanks this.
-
Dryver Thanks this.
-
Freight coming out of TX sucks this time of year. The other problem is a lot of drivers don't know who the great brokerage companies that pay well are. Almost every load that I move is done by a direct call to a carrier we have an established relationship with. My companies MC# starts with a 0 so we don't waste too much time posting on load boards. Ihave carriers that run the same load with 3 trucks each week that we pay $3.45 per mile year round regardless of fuel prices. I pay local backhaul carriers $2 per mile on their backhauls because they call inand ask for them. If you are wasting time with CH and Coyote and TQL, cheap freight is what you will get. From the time a load is booked with me, the dispatcher has the rate con within 5 minutes....wedont hold the driver hostage shopping the rate. Our flatbed and stepde k freight is just as good. You wont find many drivers talking about us because we are their golden goose. I just booked 19 van loads with one carrier over the next 3 weeks pYing $3 per mile on 1250 miles and they are going into Chicago. But this carrier is excellent and I know they will honor their commitment just like I will mine. Keep searching guys...good brokers are out there you just need to have a plan...and for my company youneed grezt CSA scores.
-
All that on your first post here,ok, i didnt see any your coments saying you load trucks out of tx, you load for this great amount but not tx you dont, no need in telling that in here, any been to tx knows better. For the biggest state its dead on outbound freight period, always has been, so golden goose what you got outta big T ?
-
Rooster903 Thanks this.
Trucking Jobs in 30 seconds
Every month 400 people find a job with the help of TruckersReport.
Page 1 of 7