$1.71 per mile?

On the same token: The broker, may reduce his costs by selling his luxury car; selling his huge home and weekend lake house, and instead, rent an economy apartment; setting his office up in a cheaper location; riding public transportation, biking, or walking to work; brown bag lunch and dinner, since even more broker efficiency can be gained by hiring fewer agents and working even later. He could drive a 15 year old car and do most of the maintenance on it himself. He could sleep in his office, instead of wasting money commuting. Just shower every other day or two...

The point is this: Just look at how many sacrifices truckers have made to scrape by! Why are we set in this chronic, demoralizing high turnover rate for decades, yet truckers are expected to squeeze that turnip even more?

Let's point the efficiency demands and sacrifices on the other players in this whole transportation/logistics sector. It's unacceptable for us to continue to bend over and accept this idea that it is always just the drivers who need to do more! We do enough!

 

One other thing too. I'm not just calling out the abusive broker practices and pricing; it is the shippers too. These shipping managers are way too ####y, it's time to log that run to the letter of the law just to expose how much time they waste and show them they aren't the only ones that can dig in and say NO.

 

This is why a mandated elog for everyone doesn't worry me. It will reduce capacity to an extreme amount. Reduced capacity equates to higher rates.