Brokers offer transparency. Imagine that!

Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by TallJoe, Mar 23, 2023.

  1. Rideandrepair

    Rideandrepair Road Train Member

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    Now I really want to go fishing. Fisherman tell big tales.
    Am I the one who was ready to quit? Must be. I’m always ready to quit. I’ve been told I don’t know when to quit. I must not want to, since I don’t. This Business owes me nothing. Not much invested. What I invested was years ago. Paid 21k for my Truck with a finframe. It needed some neglected maintenance done. Ran it while fixing minor things. Paid $11k for my Trailer in 2017. It’s been good so far. Gets the job done just as good as your $3000 per mo. Peterbilt. I like Peterbilt, prefer KW’s. I also like Corvettes Harleys, and boats. I don’t need them. I also don’t want the responsibility of owning a house over 1600 sf anymore. Rather have a smaller one, especially if it’s paid for. I always laugh at the question on loan apps. Do you Own your own home or rent? Doesn’t matter if there’s any equity or not, with or without a mortgage. Most proudly enjoy mentioning the home that they bought. The question is more to evaluate responsibility levels. The fact is nothing with a loan on it is owned. It’s rented till paid in full.
     
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  3. Long FLD

    Long FLD Road Train Member

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    It’s because he has his own ideas of what is right and wrong. If it benefits others it’s greed, if it benefits him then it’s fine. It’s just like what started this thread. Clearly the broker is greedy because he would only go $1000 on a load that used to pay more. But then later he posts if you’re the only truck around and knew the broker was getting $1500 you’d be free to charge $1500 plus whatever your conscience would allow and that’s not greed because he deserves to be paid.
     
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  4. TallJoe

    TallJoe Road Train Member

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    Good for you.
    Unfortunately, the weather in Chicago area is cold and drury today. I can only wish I were in a sunny part of the country.
    But this paid for truck and trailer of mine and consistency of driving it in good and bad times, which unfortunately is a nessecary evil to some degree, facilitates my flexibility of not having to be stuck on the road and also not being distressed of not finding better fish for a week or two.
     
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  5. Jubal Early Times

    Jubal Early Times Road Train Member

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    Western Star. Not a Peterbilt. And the payment is 3300.
     
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    Jubal Early Times Road Train Member

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    If you only caught a bigger fish it would feed you longer.
     
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  7. Jubal Early Times

    Jubal Early Times Road Train Member

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    We need transparency!!
     
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  8. TallJoe

    TallJoe Road Train Member

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    I do resent your vicious but very clumsy ways of evaluating my intentions here. Perhaps, you are overwhelmed by the playfulness I tried to exercise.
    For starters, the talk about greed ought to be understood not literally but with a dose of satire serving the threads playfulness. I would not expect anyone with a little bit of oil in their brains to take my references to greed in a religious sense in the aspect of transportation buiseness, seriously.
    But, I guess I overestimated my skills of communication.
     
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  9. MiFamilyGuy

    MiFamilyGuy Light Load Member

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    In the case of a house, even after you pay the bank off you still only own it as long as you keep making the rent payments to the local government. Property taxes make up a ridiculous percentage of my mortgage payment.
     
  10. Siinman

    Siinman Road Train Member

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    Not sure why you think that. I have been basically working about 2 weeks out a month almost a year now with the new truck payment of 3500 and a trailer for 700.
     
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  11. TallJoe

    TallJoe Road Train Member

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    Ehh..you know what?
    On the other hand, I take it back what I
    said earlier. I was darn serous about the broker's greed, in this example, because like I said, owners operator are immune to greed. The are vested with their life, health, money while brokers...well, suffice to say, they don't buy fuel.
    You are not much different from a company driver, dependent on someone else bringing work for you on consistent basis. You don't have a full recognition of good times vs slow times and how greed fits in the scheme at all, do you?
    I don't blame you but perhaps you try to offer too much wisdom from a position of a person that has no exposure to what we deal with...we the warriors of the spot market
     
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