Need Advise about what owner operators want...

You need to read carefully the opening post. It will clear your confusion.

 

If you can understand that good for you!

 

I don't know how some guys get by honestly at these rates they're showing...

 

My question is and always will be, "27% of WHAT?"

Rates are all over the map. I do all RGN work, from private sales to military, and some of these brokered loads pay BETTER than I personally would have the audacity to charge a customer, while other brokered loads I just flat out skim over them and keep looking. So that always raises the question, "what is this REALLY paying, and is the broker skimming?"

This is probably a hallucination, but just stop and think about it for a second or two...with everything under the sun under government regulation that we have to tolerate, why aren't these freight rates and brokers percentages being regulated for them to be allowed a ceiling for what they can earn...you know, kind of like US in a roundabout way...?

I'm not in favor of more regulation by any means, I'm just sayin'. Take the energy markets for example. Gasoline and oil are regulated so the retailers can only earn a certain % above their cost...but propane has no ceiling. Oil & gas retailers work off anywhere from .25 to .40/gallon or thereabouts, while propane retailers (the biggun's, like Amerigas, FarrellGas, Suburban, etc.) all enjoy profits that have average over a dollar a gallon and remain that way. The average Joe Six Pack doesn't realize that.

I strongly encourage anyone that uses propane and fuel oil for heating or cooling to use your small, local businesses rather than the big corporate machines. Do the homework and you'll see a significant difference in pricing between big corp. and mom & pop.

Didn't mean to veer off topic, but it's all tied together in what we're talking about anyway.

 

Respect, money,respect, some sort of home life,respect.
Did I mention respect.

 

Do you want a "ceiling" for what you can earn?

 

At the time, I was still itching in my dad's pants, but didn't the gov't deregulate trucking about 40 years ago? I'm surprised to hear that some folks want government reform. Amazing to see things come full circle. I was under the impression that if the rates are too low, you don't have to haul it. Why do operators constantly complain about shady brokers but keep pulling their freight anyway? It seems oddly similar to port drivers out west here. They sign up to work by the load as some bogus owner operator scheme, but they complain they aren't being treated fairly. Is it that hard to accept responsibility for your actions?

 

I didn't say that.....yer puttin' a twist on it now....

And I DON'T move cheap freight for joker brokers. I move sensible freight, or not at all. Very simple math. I said in the last post that I'd like to see brokers get a cap or ceiling on what THEY can take, not excessively off the gross.

Wouldn't you like to know exactly what a load paid BEFORE brokerage fees and have it be 100% truthful and transparent? Seems you're a seasoned enough fella, you probably would like I would as well.

 

But the problem is, if they are regulated as to how much they can can earn, whats to stop them from pushing thru legislation to cap what we earn?

I'm one of the fellas that doesn't get wound up worrying about what a broker is making. Some of the rates that these jokers quote me are ridiculous, and sometimes it does piss me off. Its one of those things though, be careful for what you ask for.

 

Higher rates. Everything else will fall into place