Should the company you're leased to get a cut of the FSC?

Find a new company

 

Be sure to ask them how the can justify keeping part of it and have them show you on paper and ask them do the pay ANYTHING on the fuel if not then how are they intitled to ANY of the surcharge ....Just be ready when you confront them you might be unemployed And wish you the best with this .....If you have any questions you can send me a PM

 

not sure if this question fits here--but--if you look at the load board and see the offer--is ther a fsc on top or is it iincluded?
i cant seem to seeany mention of a fsc
thanx

 

really does this even need to be asked????


Should they? NO


Do they? some

 

It is unfortunate that this statement has to be made. Honesty in the trucking industry is getting harder and harder to find. Trust but verify.

 

Mayflower did this and was recently hit with a class action lawsuit.

 

I was an owner-operator in the early 1980s when the original fuel surcharge was passed through to whomever bought the fuel, according to the regulation. The carriers sued the government on the grounds that the government could not tell them what to pay their owner-operators. The carriers won. The fuel surcharge was then folded into the rates. I went from receiving 100% of the surcharge to receiving my 67.5% of it. We were in recession at that time. The profit my tractor made was equivalent to the amount of surcharge I lost due to the court case. Therefore, I sold my tractor in 1982 and continued driving for the same carrier as a fleet driver.

 

I'm gonna play the devil's advocate here, and it probably won't win me any friends...

You all are acting like fuel surcharges are this rate that is set in stone. It's not. It's negotiated on a customer by customer basis. I've seen fuel surcharges fluctuate up to 20 cpm or more from customer to customer. Some customers negotiate a lower line haul rate with a higher fuel surcharge. Some customers negotiate a higher line haul rate with with a lower fuel surcharge.

If you are signed onto a carrier or broker that pays you a percentage of the DFPI (say 35 cpm when the national average is $3.00/gallon, for example), then that's what you negotiated. If you want more, then negotiate for more. Just be aware that on some loads you haul they may be collecting 40 cpm at $3/gallon, while other loads they may be collecting 30 cpm at $3/gallon. If they negotiate for a better FSC than what they are paying you, then (either) good for them or shame on you.

The one thing I can tell you is that if your carrier or broker has ten different customers, then they are collecting probably at least seven or eight different amounts of fuel surcharges from those customers. Every customer has their own fuel schedule nowadays.

Not trying to be a jerk... that's just the reality of how it is.

 

99% of load board rates are flat rates. The rate includes line haul and fuel surcharge. That's just another reason to stay away from the load boards whenever possible.

All load board rates are negotiable... theoretically. Whenever I do call on a posting and the rate is too cheap, I always leave a rate at which I will do the load. Every once in a long while, I'll get a call back and get the rate I want.