Time to fight back against cheap rates!

just say NO......and be prepared to sit.
What you define as cheap, another says is just right.

 

Deregulation hit about 1990 ..... you join the long list of 'wishful thinking' .... sorry to be a bummer, but I've seen it all in 25 years since '90. I've seen the slow moving protests on the Interstates, the blocking of scales, the DYNOMITING of scales !!, the sit-ins, the weigh-ins, the lie-down-ins, the union drives, etc etc ...... it's done. Find your own personal niche, exploit it, and enjoy life.

Luck

Peace out !

 

well lets just say every driver decided to sit, even company drivers decided they werent gettn enough, and even drivers from another country decided not to drive for peanuts, no drivers hauling loads. what would happen? well rates would spike untill the first driver decided it was enough for him to drive again, then another and another, untill we are right back to where we are today complaining about cheap rates an low pay. whats the answer? thats for everyone to figure out for themselves

 

I'm sitting 3 days now waiting for half way decent pay Metro keeps posting their. 22 cpm. ####. They are a good reason to make the do not haul for list since they dont even have trucks.

 

I know it sucks but sometimes you just need to put it into the wind heading for a better market. I will not park one of my trucks more than half a day, (unless they happen to be on a reset).

 

There's drivers out here making 25 cpm or less
And happier than a pig in mud.
Don't ask me how you compete with that.

 

so call me naive but are you saying there is someone out there who owns an operates a truck for 25cpm after expenses. i hope your talkin about someone from mexico or the phillipines because thats the lowest number ive heard. i dunno even know what to say to that, i thought i had heard it all on this forum buts thats the craziest thing ive ever read. and im someone who can live on very little and keeps life simple but good lord thats just crazy.

 

The point is all these cheap loads that you car
Haulers are complaining about are getting moved
By somebody at minimum wage rates.
Company drivers and owner operators.

Somebody is always gonna take them.
The real question is who's gonna go broke first.
The drivers who sit and refuse to haul the cheap stuff
Or the ones pulling the cheap stuff.

 

I also have a Facebook group. Auto Transport Everything