Anyone a partner carrier

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  1. Mar 4, 2016 #1
    haider99

    haider99 Medium Load Member

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    Hi,

    Any one here a partner carrier of a large carrier. For example, you run under your own authority but a larger carriers provides you with friend trailers and dispatches your drivers.

    If so, what are the pros and cons of this?

    Sorry, is this has been discussed before... I searched and found nothing.

    thanks
     
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  3. Mar 4, 2016 #2
    DUNE-T

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    Did JB Hunt offer you that opportunity by any chance? What's the point of own authority then?
     
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  4. Mar 4, 2016 #3
    haider99

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    Nope they did not.

    Some other large carrier. I will be speaker with them to see what they have to offer. I just wanted to know the pros and cons of such thing
     
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  5. Mar 4, 2016 #4
    DUNE-T

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    They have their own people to take care of, you are not gonna be their priority
     
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    Chinatown

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    alien4fish Thanks this.
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    special-k

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    Thats what I do. I like it for me but it all depends what kind of work you are doing. I do flatbed work hauling steel mostly. They like it because they get experienced guys doing the work with little drama. I like the flexibility it gives me.
     
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  9. Mar 5, 2016 #7
    Derailed

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    Most of those deals I saw with those large carriers weren't to good, at least with dry van freight. Besides awfully low rates you were under forced dispatch. They lure you in with the dedicated account term which gets alot of guys all excited.
     
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  10. Mar 5, 2016 #8
    rollin coal

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    OP what you are describing is more of a one sided relationship with one party dependant and reliant on the other and not exactly what I think of as a "partner carrier". Of course I could be wrong. A partner carrier is basically doing their own thing but if a partner calls up and says "hey we have this load we can't cover with our truck can you help us out?" and you do it.

    Typically these are two carriers that have worked with each other in the past and trust each other to take care of the customer, not get backdoored on the freight, etc. Keeps them from having to take the risk of largely unreliable random trucks they will find from a load board.

    It's just one off loads here and there. In a pinch when capacity is tight it might be more than that. It should never be a dirt cheap load or marginal rates. Not IMO.
     
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  11. Mar 5, 2016 #9
    haider99

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    I will be speaking with the person who offered me some thing like "Partner Carrier" to see what they have to offer. Currently I have a truck with a large carrier but we are contracted to Home Depot. Home Depot dispatches my driver but the large carrier pays us. I am thinking Partner Carrier is a similar relationship to like home depot?

    Currently we are being paid 1.35/ mile working with a large carrier which does not really cut it anymore. I am researching and researching and wanting to move on using loadboard and visiting direct shippers.

    I dont really understand this statement @rolling coal.
    OP what you are describing is more of a one sided relationship with one party dependant and reliant on the other and not exactly what I think of as a "partner carrier".
     
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  12. Mar 6, 2016 #10
    rollin coal

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    Partnership is not such a one sided relationship. What OP is suggesting sounds more like dependency.
     
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