Rates are crashing and fuel to the moon!

Nothing worth doing now day!

 

I know I have only access to payroll when serving a shipper. I don't have access to their loads online. That is how I know. I can only retrieve my routes and what they paid me. But I work only part time for them. And my loads are designated to me beforehand without using their board. So, I have no choice of choosing. I wish I could bid other loads though, especially in my lane.

 

Blame our government for that. The intention is to drain small businesses and support bigger ones.

 

It’s definitely getting spooky out there. I haven’t done spot freight for years, I have a dedicated haul, but my load has been shrinking considerably for close to a year. It was getting pretty pathetic, but at the beginning of this year, the main company that I’m contracted to, eliminated another guy’s haul, and I received half of his freight.
I am still charging a significantly higher rate than he did, but he was the one who went to the chopping block.
I do feel bad for him, but he never offered any help or exceptional cooperation to his receivers on his haul. His attitude was the ol’ “not-my-job” mentality. There is a difference between “working with customers” and having your nose in their butt crack! This is reinforcing evidence that if you go the extra mile, and contribute (what you reasonably can) to keeping a customer”s operation running smoothly, you can still get the bigger buck$, or at least be the last man standing.

 

I have been paying high taxes too in recent years. I don't know what is the reason, but I kind of felt as if the accountant didn't want me to save but pay up, pay up, pay up. I guess I was doing too well until now.

 

I guess I ruined that by filing a claim with our insurance after our trailer got damaged. Dropped by two brokers about 7 weeks ago.

 

Wow. I have made insurance claims a couple of times in the past 10 years for trailer damage. Fortunately, I was never reminded of it. One of them was from my spot-freight days, when a forklift operator ripped the lower e-track out of the wall and destroyed a super-sack of potato flour, which was critical to keeping production going at their plant that day! It was a true “hot load”. It was not a pleasant experience, but they used me several times after that incident.

 

I have been doing it for months! I just reopened DAT recently to see what's going on.
But me sitting and not booking those loads didn't stop others.

 

WTH are you talking about?

The farmers in Oklahoma didn't lease their land, they owned it.

The dust bowl was just part of the problem but it wasn't an overcapaciy of commidities that caused the prices to collapse, it started with mechinized production that led to some overcapacity but it really was the loss of overseas markets with increases on tariffs that caused most of the damage.

If I remember right this is a company that had focused on one type of market - Perishables, and they always had a lack of diversification. This would be a good study on mismanaging resources for those who want to see why a company like this failed.

 

And I had a similar load back and didn't take it!