SAY NO TO CHEAP FREIGHT, PEOPLE!!!

Everybody talks about these special grants but can anybody provide a link to one. Is it maybe that these "foreigners" have a better work ethic?

 

Perhaps post this thread in 1 or 2 other languages ?

 

Well here is my pathetic excuse. I was not born with every advantage. I grew up dirt poor in a single wide trailer in rural alabama. Nothing has ever been given to me, I've earned everything through hard work. It is a choice someone makes to uproot their life. Normally its done with the hope of doing better for oneself and or family. I have done it a few times. Being born in a different country or learning a new language has no bearing on anything. If they can make it in this country good for them, but being born in America does not mean there is a silver spoon in your mouth.

 

Anyone else out there completely ignore these rates? I don't even consider them legit and never ever care what they are hovering at....

 

Say no to cheap freight is a great slogan but can anyone define what a cheap rate is. Everyone has different fixed and variable costs. For an operation running a dedicated lane out and back sometimes back hauling sometimes not, that 75 cpm back haul is pure profit. If it doesn't fit into your plan move on. I don't have any experience with freight load boards but I believe owners who rely on them for all of there loads are destined to fail regardless of how high or low rates are. Offer a service that's a commodity you will get what everyone else gets. The key is to 1.specialize
2.find a niche within your specialization
3. keep low overhead
4. work with customers(shippers) brokers are not customers
5. don't believe in the boogeyman
Obama isn't trying to give your job to an immigrant.
6. Adapt to change or your business will fail. It isn't the good Ole days, it's now. Deal with how it is not how you want it to be.
7. Pride doesn't pay payroll, truck payments or anything else. It will lead you to the door of bankruptcy.
DO WORK AND BE PRODUCTIVE.
The sky isn't falling. And I don't see any black helicopters in the sky.

I'm not a Democrat or a socialist but I'm a realist.

 

Yeah, that game plan was working great til most of my customers went belly up or merged, some turned everything over to 3PLs because they feel they will pay the same either way but only have 1 statement at the end of the month. There's a pretty good chance that you will get to show us all how to reformulated our game plans if the market doesn't bounce back pretty quick. Hope it doesn't come to that,but yes, "in the good old days " aka up until fall of last year, your plan worked great for me.

 

You're right on some points but you're dead wrong here. Its not a great slogan its common sense. If you and everyone else would get the backhaul mentality out of their head that "backhaul" would pay the same as your main load. But since you took the cheap crap once they will expect it every time. See? Common sense

 

Oh and when it was a perfect world I charged enough going out that they could keep anything under $2, everytime I break that rule it usually costs me well more than I make. Never do Eagle Pass on a Monday

 

So, we should all charge a minimum rate?
Who determines this rate?
Should it be a law?

 

Well considering we all have a minimum cost per mile to operate plus whatever you want to pay yourself then yes of course you should have a minimum charge per mile! What kind of question is that?