saying NO to cheap freight

Today, at 9 AM my authority went active. I therefore, with hand on my heart, pledge not to haul cheap. I also will not undercut any other driver who has posted a rate on a load board that is in line with the past 90 day average. Also, if anyone wants to boycott a particular broker, I will back them if their reasoning is sound. Good luck to all of you out there but the Woolly Rhino Transportation, LLC is open for business.

 

If they give it to you then take it away to give to someone else for less that is not free market. It's dishonest greed. Some people will sell their soul very cheap. Seems that to many their word means nothing.
Not speaking of you Boardhauler but of the brokers that do this or truckers that back out on a load after booking it because something better comes along.

 

Good luck Wooly.

 

So the small regional carrier/broker and LS book the load like the gonna haul it and then repost it?

I thought that this is illegal?

 

I took it to mean what happened to me. Trans Logistics out of Henderson, NV signed me on to run for them under their authority. They did not have any freight themselves. What they were doing was getting brokered loads from the load boards and then passing them on to me. Problem was they were taking 26% off the load for their share. I paid all cost. They even took an escrow charge of $500 a week but when I had two trailer tires that were showing the belts on the bottom of the treads, I was told that they were my responsibility to repair.

I called that back to back broker with no one looking out for the driver. Just looking up freight on a load board is not worth $2000 a week. So I quit. Got my own authority now.

 

Check back in 6 months to a year and see where you are at. All that sounds good but new owners at times start getting desperate and end up taking the cheap load or or undercutting others.

 

Probably what happened is the small carrier agreed to haul it for $3,500. If they can talk you into hauling it, they can pocket $1,000. LS is probably looking to just pocket $300 or so, which still isn't bad when they don't have to ever touch it.

 

I except your challenge. Refusing to haul cheap is not something that should be done for the group but for yourself. If we all develop the attitude that we prove a valuable service to the nation and deserve to be paid well, then we will always refuse to haul cheap.

And if that doesn't work out, I can always go on the road and give speeches. The Clinton's made over 250 million USD in a short time and they didn't even have real jobs.

 

Yep !! I sat in Laredo 3 days last week and had 4 loads cancel only to reappear at a lower rate .
Not all brokers are scumbags but most are .
I pretty easy going and won't play their game and will sit .
Also won't lift a finger to prep my trailer for a load till I have a rate confirmation.

 

PS ..people were taking multi stop sun line loads out of Laredo last week 1.30 a mile ...i sat and came out at 2.00 a mile to penn .
Everybody's costs are different tho .