Completed a $19,000 dryvan load. Highest paying dryvan load?

100%
Im not in business to efff people, but supply and demand works two ways.

My fav thing to tell a broker with a junk price and pissed at mine. "You called me!"

 

They're only able to pull it off because of the suckers that say yes to the low rates. If we all refuse to move our trucks for less than $3/mile, then the rates would be $3+ per mile.

 

My plumber is 125 per hour driving a pickup in a rural area. Truckers are stupid and its a race to the bottom.

 

Go deal with the public and get covered in crap daily then. lol No thanks.

 

Agreed and thats why I'm not a plummer. But what do you think his overhead looks like compared to a class 8 tractor trailer?

 

Stealing? No. Not even close.

Stealing would be if he got a rate confirmation for $1,900, got paid $19,000, and kept it. Even worse would be if he was notified of their mistake afterwards and thumbed his nose at them.

This is not stealing. A contract was offered, agreed, completed and paid.

Ethical? I guess that depends. Did the broker make a mistake? It sure seems like it. Should the broker be taken advantage of for their mistake? I wouldn't. It doesn't matter if it's Uber or a one-man operation, but I'm not going to judge the OP for his position.

I will say that if it was a one-man operation, that the return of ~$17,000+ should buy you a lot of goodwill, but probably won't even get you on Uber's Christmas card list.

Oh, and I have had brokers steal thousands of dollars (per load). I was on a contract hauling shacks when the carrier owner died. His widow and idiot son got screwed by the Landstar broker who took an additional $3,000 per load on top of the generous cut that he was already getting as part of the original agreement. The broker didn't arrange the contract, he was only being used because we needed a local guy to handle things. Neither he, nor the contract, lasted much longer.

 

You really don’t understand the free market do you?

 

Uber paid me for the second time close to $5000 on a load that I completed over 6 months ago. I did let them know about it. First when I saw their email saying that the payment was approved and was going to be deposited to my account in a few business days. Despite my letting them know about it and to my surprise, it did go through.
2nd time, I called them after a week when I saw it still sitting there. I was certain that they would take it back, but they did not. I asked, if I should write them a check or they would be able to debit that ACH...well they could not tell me but they would let me know and they have not yet. LOL.
Guess what, it is the 3rd week now and they did not take it back yet. I am going to call them again, if I see it still there next week. I am thinking WTF is it, me calling them insisting to return their overpay? Comedy...some kind of a prank? Are they testing me or what?

 

Less than a rounding error.

Here’s a deeply strange thing about Uber, which publicly filed for its IPO today: The company has lost $10 billion from operations, just since 2016...

- The Uber IPO Is a Landmark​

 

Lol!

There you have it.