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Discussion in 'Freight Broker Forum' started by Straitliner, Oct 21, 2014.

  1. Straitliner

    Straitliner Light Load Member

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    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.
     
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  3. Trckdrvr

    Trckdrvr Heavy Load Member

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    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?)
     
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  4. bad-luck

    bad-luck Road Train Member

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    in my opinion it's the brokers. How many times have you been lied to think about it?
     
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  5. Dryver

    Dryver Road Train Member

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    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.
     
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  6. bad-luck

    bad-luck Road Train Member

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    Now I understand your point, but the only way that the rates are going to increase is drivers don't haul cheap freight I dead headed from Rhode Island to Baltimore last week, because I refused to haul cheap freight and that's all that was being offered.
     
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  7. jess-juju

    jess-juju Road Train Member

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    Its pretty simple load to truck ratio....Get good money going in if you want to run into Texas.
     
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  8. Straitliner

    Straitliner Light Load Member

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    Not angry or PO'd.lol Yes I am enjoying the TexMex thank you!! I live in Central texas and run into this every now & then. I got plenty of time & patience & I know I will find a good paying load eventually, until then I'm takin it easy. But I did call on 39 loads yesterday.lol
     
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  9. NCBroker

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    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.
     
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  10. wedge542

    wedge542 Light Load Member

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    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 ?
     
  11. Skate-Board

    Skate-Board Road Train Member

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    That makes no sense at all.
     
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