Hey everyone! Lets all sell are trucks!

while I feel your pain there is no easy money brokers included as sales is a hard gig as well

 

Some of those shippers are probably paying closer to $4 a mile than the $1.5-$2 being offered to the truck.

 

Why do you assume a shipper knows what it cost to run your truck? Do you know what it cost and all the aspects of creating a bag of dog food?

 

Your rates are cheap because you as the carrier set them that way.

Carriers should set the rates and Not the Shipper or Brokers.

Until you learn that, you may consider driving as a company driver for somebody who does know how to set those rates.

 

It seems to me that it is time to stop blaming brokers and shippers for cheap rates. Unless carriers take loads for cheap rates the rates go up. It is your truck, your fuel and your driver. You don't tell a plumber what you will pay him to repair your leaky faucet. He gives you his rate and you either pay it or find another plumber. The same for other services. I can't think of another profession where the customer or brokers dictate rates. It is your business. It is up to you to run it.

 

Or you plan for more than just "one load at a time", and use a "route planning strategy" that takes your where your particular freight is paying - or where "capacity" is way LOWER THAN FREIGHT. If you look on ANY load board (even just a "free demo") and you see 50 loads of your particular freight and 150 trucks in the same area - GUESS WHAT? Don't go there, build a deadhead out into your inbound load, or "get stuck" with a crappy rate and don't whine about it.

Friend of mine got a load from WV to Denver (leased onto CRST - skateboard) - he was all excited about what the load "paid to the truck" (never mind he blew 2 drives that he knew were questionable at best on the way out there). Ended up deadheading out to NE to grab a load.

The difference between a "Driver TRYING to be a businessman" and a "BUSINESSMAN who also happens to DRIVE".

Rick