Flatbed freight in and out of TEXAS

Jimmbuds... i see your home 20 is in Florida. I'm guessing you are having a hard time getting to texas and back home for a descent rate, am i correct???

Freight OUT of FL is near impossiable, and rates from TX to FL have ALWAYS been rock bottom. Add in the winter months and all the truckers who refuse to go north of I-20, and you got it even worse. Might want to try running elsewhere if ya can, because the route you are on now will leave you in bankruptcy court.

 

Getting a decent rate out of fl is a picnic compared to a good rate out of texas,

I normally pull step but switched out to a flat this winter and have run fl to north east then back into midwest and back to fl, turn that in about 5 days, averaged 6k a week for about 2 mo this winter and was home every weekend but one.

 

You know that law already exists right? not for company drivers but as an O/O under my own authority I can ask a broker at any given time what he's billing the customer and he legally HAS to show me what he billed the customer to move the freight. That is a LAW but it's a catch 22. I ask a broker what he's billing the customer it'll probably be the last load I haul for him/her but I can ask at any given time, it's also a law that if the broker doesn't pay me I can go back on the shipper for payment I'm coming very close to using that law to my advantage with good old suntek down there in FL.

 

you might want to read some of the broker agreements, most have a provision that you waive that right, tql has it in theirs.

and many brokers have in their agreements that you waive the right to go back on the shipper for payment, again in the tql agreement.

reading that fine print would surprise some folks.

 

Yeah well they have breached their own contract when they don't pay you as agreed so it doesn't really matter what rights you've "waived" . . . all bets are off . . . just sayin' have yet to get burned in 10 years with this policy/mindset

 

Be sure if you haul intrastate that you have proper TXRRC authority. It could cost up to 1800, as of 1/1/13, according to TX DOT I 35 east Sulpher Springs Tx.