Rates in the toilet?

Brokers ALWAYS make it seem Sunny outside

 

Agreed! With brokers it is always sunny days, rainbows, and unicorns

 

You don't have to use loadboards or brokers.

 

You are right, and we try not to. But sometimes you have to for those fill in loads. And not all brokers are bad. There are a few brokers that are nice to deal with.

 

Using 6 mpg as a baseline, the decrease in fuel pump prices equals about 25 cpm. Any additional drop in rates is due to nothing but simple supply and demand. Same number of trucks and a lot less loads to pull. Brokers have no more control over how many loads are getting shipped than truckers do. So to put the blame on brokers is just ridiculous.

 

You are right on. In my previous bloviation, I should have pointed out that the "bad" brokers were the problem in the scenarios that I was describing, meaning the rates had a large difference between them although the loads were very similar in product and lanes. Additionally, There were big gaps in rates for the exact same load from a single brokerage firm, only difference was a motivated broker on the 2nd call and a "bad" broker on the 1st call.
But, yes, the underlying culprit is the economy.

 

New year starts out with a 1.44 @ mile quote time you figure pick-up and bouncing from Pensacola FL it goes down to 68 cents @ mile. Time to look for more direct work. They're near the one million mark on MC numbers,
lot's new ones out their to be butt hurt by the corrupt brokers which is probably 85% of them. maybe 99.99%

 

More good DEDICATED loads posted
Two days work and exclusive use for the big price of 1.57 @ mile.

 

I'm already regretting paying the 900 dollar insurance down payment Thursday.

 

That's for a LTL right?