L S cheap loads

Look I don't have time to be lying and telling stories man. Look at this pic, came in earlier, AMONGST many many more. 8k pounds legal load going to Fontana

My guess is their telling y'all whatever to get the freight covered. I don't know. But I get stuff like this in all day, even as winter sets in.

 

It's all business. If the can get it moved for cheaper outside LS they will. There's different sets of rules they got to follow for BCOs, then with approved carriers. ;;; Now the van freight is pretty garbage in my opinion, that's why I'm moving over to open deck after I save a little more. But I got this load alert up and been watching it for months.

 

So u getting $2 and change to go to california and you consider that good money?

 

Why would a broker voluntarily give you more money? If he can get you to haul $5 per mile freight for $2 he's going to sell it to you for $2. It doesn't matter if it's CHRW, LS, Mercer or whoever. It sounds like you don't know the rules of the game your playing.

 

This deadhorse has been beaten many times. More often than not the broker side is the cheap stuff and they win a little more on some of it. But not always. Come crunch time looking for trucks from any source LS agents will cry for mercy same as anyone else. A lot of that stuff hits alerts inside and outside at the same instant. A dozen loads moving out on 10 different trucks outside and BCO rates may be about the same or all over the place. Some o/o twist arms when they know they can and some don't. Maybe you as a BCO make them play it that way (twisting their arm)? Or maybe you are the one who gets played? Individual results, may vary.....

 

He already said he doesn't pull a flat yet, so he's not taking that load. I don't know the LA - CA lane so 2.40ish to the truck might be a good rate. The load is also only 25' long so that is a great base to fill in with partials. I know quite a few independents that average $2 for all miles and think that's awesome.

 

Look, I'm just showing the OP what I see. Lol

 

Theres always an advantage to being independant,in a certain day landstar may have more trucks than freight but some other broker needs a truck really bad thats when a smart o/o gets the big money.

 

I didn't want to go there, glad you did , after the 27 percent comes off a lot of the shine is gone.