Anyone get reassigned to a different ICA/Rep these past weeks?

Let me ask you. As a broker, is it smart business practice pay your most reliable drivers #### rates?

My thinking or sense about this is, they recognize they will have to do better to cover those loads OR they are workring up some new contracts that open up on this particular board

Those who are on their game and smart about it wouldnt take the #### rates now would they? So why offer them to this specific group of drivers?

IDK just something to consider.

 

Maybe to entice potential new drivers looking at picking their own freight. It wouldn't be hard to entice drivers with no experience on the load board to go into a OTR choice board. There are guys like me who want to be OTR for company and I assumed that I would run 1,000 mile loads and make big money once on the choice board. That was before I started doing my homework and realizing that short loads often pay more and you save more on fuel at the same time depending on the region of course. Maybe they see the lack of loads being taken for long distances and want to create a OTR Choice board.

 

The point of switching some off these guys was their on time delivery record. Makes no sense to hire new drivers with an unknown record like that. Sounded to me like it was being offered to the proven track record drivers.

 

Guess I need to be "late" a few times so I don't get "assigned" a new OTR dispatcher.

I take it being an IC is in name only if they ASSIGN who and what board you're on against your wishes.

 

Or without our consent!

 

Where i was going with this is in general the longer the load the cheaper the rate.
It is scary what 1000 plus mile loads pay on our board. 1500, 2000+ mile loads are even worse overall I'd bet.
Add to the fact it has come that out drivers on the "team board" do worse than our board.
% is about service, not miles.
Dry Van is cheaper than reefer, flatbed, tanker etc and we're already giving up a huge % then add cross country runs and that's not a very profitable operation.

 

Or its stuff that wasnt booked by teams and they are looking to cover with proven drivers.

 

long loads pays less. that's all

 

And costs you more in fuel/ wear and tare.

 

Long loads pay less because the company gets less. If a truck is booked for 3 days for a run, they get less from the shipper versus only booking their truck for one day. That equals higher rates. Same pay scale trickles down to IC's.