Why you'll go Bankrupt hauling around $2 a mile loads

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  1. GYPSY65

    GYPSY65 Road Train Member

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    Again a swing and a miss
    I do get $4-5 and if you read there’s a % of that
    So $4 get $3 to the truck at 75% etc but you are one of those guys at the round table
    Sorry you can’t make it in this business
    Maybe try harder??

    I don’t need to argue. I know what I make and I know what my lifestyle is and personally wouldn’t leave the house for what you make but keep trying and you can get there but not if you keep acting like a problem child
     
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  3. GYPSY65

    GYPSY65 Road Train Member

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    Then don’t. Don’t give these types the satisfaction of trying to get you to stoop

    I’m on your side but you won’t ever convince anyone except those running similar to you
     
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  4. Dave_in_AZ

    Dave_in_AZ Road Train Member

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    If we're going to go to fantasy land, I insist everyone go to the "rates halt 2 week slide" thread.
     
  5. Kenworth6969

    Kenworth6969 Road Train Member

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    I do $4-$5 regularly. Glad I'm not giving up 25%+
     
  6. bumper Jack

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    Oh but you are. You are giving it to a brokerage firm.
     
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  7. Kenworth6969

    Kenworth6969 Road Train Member

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    Who knows how much the brokers are making.
    I'm glad my carrier isn't taking 25%+, is that more clear?
     
  8. Dave_in_AZ

    Dave_in_AZ Road Train Member

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    All brokers on TTR make a "soft" 15%. Read it a million times from the horses mouths.
     
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  9. GYPSY65

    GYPSY65 Road Train Member

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    Boy look at the time!!

    You sir are amazing
    First. My post was showing the difference between guys who watch that percentage
    90 isn’t always 90
    And it was you who said everyone is at $2 so how am I at $4-5? I was called a dreamer
    And that $4 gross isn’t always the number. Sometimes it’s $5 or guess what? Even more!!
    See what I did there??
    I probably should double space so it sinks in

    You like to argue and love being on the winning side
    What’s your address. I’ll send you a trophy
     
  10. Kenworth6969

    Kenworth6969 Road Train Member

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    Please point out where I said "everybody is at $2".

    I never said that.
    Started this thread using an example running $2 a mile loads but never said everybody is running that. It was an example but at no point have I ever said everybody is running at $2 mile.
    You're making up stuff at this point.

    Many $2 and below Van loads have been flying off the board, this thread was the serve as an example to show how running around at $2 a mile is not good. Never said everybody is running around for $2 a mile but it is happening out there as the cheap loads are being moved.
    Now everybody is trying to derail this in all different directions.
     
  11. Wasted Thyme

    Wasted Thyme Road Train Member

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    And yet... people have shown you're wrong. Your numbers are fantasyland.

    But keep trying to tell others how to run their business.
     
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