Tolls

i see loads all the time going to the northeast for $1.60.

brokers don't care how much YOU have to spend to deliver the load. they only care about how cheap then can get YOU to haul it for.

i just delivered a load. to a emergency job site for the tornado damage repair. it was obvious the broker got a lot of money. after the continuous phone calls. but the truck didh't make that much. for such an emergency. 100 trucks were there today. we all got the same sub standard rate. give or take a dime.

 

And who's fault is that, If we continue to pull it that cheap they are going to continue to pay that way. 1.60 to the NE is a joke, It cost a 1.20 to go down the road plus tolls and the rates out of the NE are rubbish.

 

If it's a sub-standard rate why did you take it?

 

you wanna know why I and about 200 other trucks took those loads???

NOBODY would have turned them loads down. not even this forum.

 

Why do you say that?

 

I wouldn't have taken one

 

I can honestly state that I would never have taken it either. Took a buck fifty once outta Denver but I went there for 4.10 but that's the extent of cheap for this guy.

 

Stands to reason if a rate like that out of a depressed market was no good outbound then the rate(s) leading up to it were also too low. Some of those other 200 trucks probably got a rate that justified it, some lost out, and some who never considered that load probably re-positioned their units a couple or several hundred miles away for a reload at a better rate.

 

and you would have been crazy.