What is with rates???

Discussion in 'Flatbed Trucking Forum' started by Alf24, May 28, 2013.

What is causing the unbelievably low freight pay?

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    Drivers taking low pay

    28 vote(s)
    44.4%
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    Brokers freezing and holding load

    3 vote(s)
    4.8%
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    Bad economy

    9 vote(s)
    14.3%
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    Shippers/Customers allowing freight to sit

    3 vote(s)
    4.8%
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    Loads being double, tripled brokered

    17 vote(s)
    27.0%
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    High driver to load ratio

    7 vote(s)
    11.1%
  7. Other

    1 vote(s)
    1.6%
  1. SHC

    SHC Spoiled Rotten Brat O/O

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    Nor have you supplied any of the requested information to disporve the latter... I have yet to see your "rig" or any loads on it. For all we know, you are a inmate in Stockton County Jail using his library time
     
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  3. truckon

    truckon Swamp Thing

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    LMAO!!!!!!
     
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  4. mcgoo422000

    mcgoo422000 Medium Load Member

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    Go one page back to post #100 theres last week's loads.
     

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  5. fortycalglock

    fortycalglock Road Train Member

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    Is there any other kind of new truck. Do deadhead miles somehow have zero cost?[​IMG]
    This is based on being leased to a carrier.
     
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  7. mcgoo422000

    mcgoo422000 Medium Load Member

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    Over 4g's a week to have a new truck how many years would that last for? Being an O/O leased you'd be considered still a sole Prop except maybe NJ?
    You can roll some of your pay into the schedule C and not pay as much taxes. In Al. I don't think unemployed sole prop. can draw UC.
    Also don't a 1000 a month maintance may be on the conservative side? Thats not but two tires and oil change.?
     
  8. BAYOU

    BAYOU Road Train Member

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    lets take that trip I started off in a FLD after two years the motor blew at the same time I was going thru a divorce I had a 99 dodge one ton dually that I drove everyday and always have had a 40ft gooseneck to pull my mud race trucks. In 2004 my motor blew in that truck so I got that C5500 it lasted two years and piston come apart so than I got a new dodge again that lasted 100,000 miles so on back to the big.

    ive never owned a trailer smaller than a 40ft and the last mini float I pulled was 45ft, I made money than just couldn't keep trucks together in 2009 I got 3 freightliners and trailers in 2011 I stopped driving and worked in the office until I had a truck totaled and not long after a trailer than its been on a downward slop until I got down to the single truck I have now so get your story straight
     
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  9. fortycalglock

    fortycalglock Road Train Member

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    The picture shows breakeven, hiring a driver at .50cpm, in response to you posting that some on here say their breakeven is $1.60-1.70 per mile WITHOUT driver wages. On a new truck and trailer, I hope you're not changing two tires a month, nor changing the oil every 10,000 miles. The line I couldn't fit in the pic was MY profit on the truck which at $1k a week is $2.06 per mile which brings it $5,162 revenue on 2500 miles. That is easily doable at the company I'm leased to.
     
  10. SHC

    SHC Spoiled Rotten Brat O/O

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    I see that, but my question is more towards the proof that LTL's don't pay well. Just about every load you have on your trailer is a LTL load for us. Add the fact I can take most of those loads, and add 2 more LTL's to it bumping my revenue up by at least $2k more....

    Also, why do you not have any DOT numbers on your truck, or company name?
     
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  11. fortycalglock

    fortycalglock Road Train Member

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    I'm pretty sure this guy has been here before under something 1911 till he got booted.
     
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