Getting Truck / Authority Beware - The Ship Has Sailed
Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by Midwest Trucker, Oct 18, 2018.
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I have also seen rates drop on AA@E freight. A few weeks ago we were averaging in the high threes. The last few loads have us just scraping by at $2.54/mile after the split. We just bought a new $7,500 hot tub and stuck it on the credit card and I thought it we would be able to pay for it with two loads but it ended up taking us three. Hard times have arrived.
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As a whole when your sitting in an office hearing phones ring and hearing calls being placed trying to book multiple trucks... you get a feeling for the conditions. If you post a truck and nobody calls = not good. If no loads are posted in an area and one pops up, you call immediately and sit on hold for 5 mins and it’s covered = not good. If you have a load you can’t cover yourself and you post it as a broker and your 3 phone lines instantly blow up and shut your system down then you know guys are desperate to book vs having to make calls to find trucks.
We hustle HARD and it takes some pretty bad conditions to affect our program at all. This week we felt it for the first time so thought I’d spread the word. Carry on though I know most of you are super truckers. lol :]tommymonza, npok, BoyWander and 7 others Thank this. -
I still have to agree with you. If your thinking about pulling the trigger for a truck and a wagon hold on a bit and see how this plays outHurst Thanks this. -
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My suggestion would be to get on with Landstar, I hear they're the cat's meow for owner ops.
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