“The brokers make too much”

Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by Long FLD, Apr 24, 2020.

  1. jamespmack

    jamespmack Road Train Member

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    My family goes back to horse drawn transportation. There was a higher profit potential before deregulation. Everyone cried then. 1980 and after cost has risen and profit has narrowed.

    Any of these pole smokers hauling for 1990's dry van rates at a 1.35cpm need not to F this up for us that have adapted and found ways to make it work.

    I'm on about day 56 with my truck park? IDK anymore. Gonna go polish the fuel tanks. I have no guarentee that I will make it out of this. But I'm not wearing out my horse to just scrap by. I'd rather go broke in the driveway!


    Maybe we can change the convo to "making it up with volume"
     
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  3. Dave_in_AZ

    Dave_in_AZ Road Train Member

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    We need an intervention. Just for O/O, not megas.
     
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  4. TallJoe

    TallJoe Road Train Member

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    If that's the case it will never end.
    The government will always save someone, somewhere. Just a matter of whose turn it is.
    Hard to say who is the wall in this discussion.
     
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  5. 062

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    Naw I’m talking about the high roller what’s already leasing... you know that fella from Tx by way of Cancun.
     
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  6. TallJoe

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    I think I will eat a rabbit for a dinner with a sweet shredded beet salad.
    Which is to say...no government will tell me what to eat.
     
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  7. Dave_in_AZ

    Dave_in_AZ Road Train Member

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    Except the little guy. The little guy will always take it in the ###.

    This is the end result of the "Everyone gets a trophy" doctrine.

    Even though The Bible tells us you run the race to win.
     
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  8. TallJoe

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    I don't know what to think...I fell into a rabbit hole in this thread. Now, I have to find it and eat it.
     
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  9. chimbotano

    chimbotano Heavy Load Member

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    Like who is sleeping on top? Lol
     
  10. chimbotano

    chimbotano Heavy Load Member

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    I agree with you . However there are very powerful interests that will not let you have a plain field. How we change that ?
     
  11. Long FLD

    Long FLD Road Train Member

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    Well, if you go back to the original post, this all started because I read online that there are people who want the government to step in because they can’t make it running the spot market and living off load boards. I feel people got to their place, good or bad, from their choices and decisions. And they are looking for someone else to blame.
     
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