One of the organizers of a truck convoy to Washington, DC

I'd be interested if you would expand on your thought of the shortsighted parts of this bill.

 

Not the way that I read it, only if there IS a FSC, must they show that it is going to the truck.

I read the pdf of that bill, and I agree, its very short sided, simply because there isn't much meat in the thing that really makes it truely enforceable.

Much more thought and words need to be put into this thing, before it reaches a vote.

 

I haven't figured out which way is best. I like the idea of the FSC, with the bill being rewritten with more substance, because then the brokers aren't going to get a percentage of the FSC at all. If the FSC goes away, then its strictly a pay per mile rate and guess what, the brokers get a percentage of that, no matter what.

Currently, as things stand, the FSC is a rip off, plain an simple, because who knows the actual amount that is being paid. No broker is going to tell you what he is charging the shipper.

If the FSC becomes mandatory, then, at least there is a way for the O/O to help recoup some of his expenses, without the broker dipping into that money.

But this bill needs to be rewritten, and not by bureaucrats but actual O/O's that are footing the bill, and dealing with the scum bag brokers that are pocketing the FSC for them selfs.