Posting For Good and Bad Brokers

Might be one of the best stories I’ve read of yours on TTR

 

Proof on main maybe? I know their bourbon menu is really long and they make a decent steak.

People post huge paying loads on facebook. Often those posts are obviously doctored which is low key hilarious to me. Always the same crowd of idiots who I wouldn't give a load talking about how they are averaging 5 bucks a mile. Sure buddy. The best trucking operators I know are averaging ~3.25 right now, and that's frankly pretty sick. That's because they are making 5 bucks a mile one way... and that averages to 3.25 both ways lol... And they are generating vastly more truck gross than the people talking trash on facebook. Newbies with MC numbers that start with a 0 (or they are leased on to some shop taking a double fisted share of the profit) one and all.

There have been a lot of pretty sketchy people entering the business side of trucking over the last year or so. Honestly I'm looking forward to the next down market clearing them all out. Everyone looks like a genius in an up market. You aren't even a real business until you've survived your first complete economic cycle both good and bad.

Yeah I should probably unsub from all the fb groups lol. I just look at them to gauge where the markets are emotionally on any given day. It doesn't even really work.

 

The next down market clearing them out And bad economic cycle That is exactly what happened and look what it done it let Northeastern European trucking companies or South of the border trucking companies come in and they are not going anywhere. As a matter of fact it's getting bigger. They are growing Faster than big trucking companies you know why because we let it happen. The day of the real truck drivers is gone The next generation of truck drivers....... Well it's not my place to judge but take a look at what's around you today. And I'm not talking about somebody that's been the business just in the last 30 years either. drivers that drove in the 50s, 60s, 70,and 80s that really understood the game. They were good men and it's a shame they're gone. And if you wanna know where the proof of this is at because I know some smart ##* is going to say something about this just stop at a truck stop and tell me who the majority of the drivers are

 

You must have been over around Lawrenceburg/Ethridge. Many years ago I bought a set of tarps for my flatbed from an Amish guy up there. He sowed the stitching in them with a peddle sewing machine. ( He would have loved to have had the horse setup). Turned out to be the best tarps I have ever owned.

 

It used to be of it was Amish made it was unmatched true quality. While some still is, you have to be careful, their society had not been immune to the drop in standards the rest of us have had to deal with. Lots of todays "amish" are using the same cheap made in Pakistan materials that supply Wal-Mart manufacturers.

 

I was really disenchanted by seeing an Amish women in Ohio at a Walmart, who arrived in one of those black carts powered by 1 hp engine with her husband, when she disembarked from the carriage holding a cell phone by her ear. Common! I thought...Either you live in the past or not!

 

Yep. Some communities are now using electricity powered by a big diesel generator and even one i know of that had a small solar plant running things.

 

Been using the USDA Truck Rate website. Lots of good info for truck shortage areas for produce. And Rates for certain markets. Central Florida to Boston Market 6000. Realistically can a driver get 80% of that rate.

 

I've been hearing 7-7.5k for that lane from the trucking companies I used to do FL produce with. My old customers certainly couldn't afford that so I don't feel like I'm missing much lol.

EDIT: Also historically the USDA rates have been badly wrong on low value produce. It seems that they used to be waaaay high and are now low. This doesn't shock me. Expecting a government agency to track something accurately that my competitors- who broker freight every day in the real market- cannot, is pretty unreasonable.

 

I never used that info for anything but know of it. I don't haul produce.