What technology can help your business that doesn't exist?

Most of the major load boards let us post our availability as well as browse posted loads. I never use it because I don't want calls from brokers on loads going places I don't want to go, for rates I'd never haul for. The biggest issue for me is that most available loads are hidden behind pay walls on several different services. Having to search through one load board alone can lead to a day of calls with the line "I juuuuust covered that one". Having to search through several individually has been fruitless for me.

 

All O/O's say they want a load going out and a load coming back. Thus business. Otherwise she sits until there is a load going out and a load coming back. Cannot sit too long because certain costs are generated and demanded regardless of revenue being made.

There is no technology that will magically cause a 30% dead time to suddenly become a revenue producer.

 

I think the reason you don't see it is because of the ratio of trucks (O/O v. mega #$@^₩bags). O/o's can't compete with volumes and numbers that the megs operate on. To be successful as an O/o you must provide a service that the big boys don't consider or care about. It's not about the next load. It's about getting a repeat customer, making a positive impression and maintaining it. Just as o/o's are small in comparison, so are shippers and recievers. They all do business together and megas aren't even on the radar. The mega carriers rely on volume for an average to cover their inadequacies and it works for them. As for me, I think niche markets, good ole American pie style business tactics, hand shakes and a quality product keep good O/O's on the map. You should ask Rollincoal your question. His responses are always on point with the truth.

 

A "Swift detector". So I can reroute.

 

You and every other uber/convoy/cargomatic company are operaring under the flawed assumption that my #1 goal in life is to run more loaded miles.

Its not. It's to earn the most money with the smallest cost -- and cheap time-killing "backhauls" cost far more money than running straight back empty and grabbing another good load.

 

Don't take this wrong but until you become an owner or at least a driver, you can't understand what's what.

I don't run the trucks by miles, I deal with rates. So there isn't a problem with the 30% because of the revenue they produce.

 

A little hate for the megas lol

 

Work on a auto programmer that you can put in a problem and it can solve it for you and right the code .... Another person that want another chunk of are ever dwindling piece of the pie. Like said o/o should be getting rates that pay to go home empty if need be with out worried about "back hauls" aka cheap freight. Let me ask you does it make sense to take a heavy 44000 lbs load 800 miles for $1000? When you pretty much have 22 hours in it just In drive time to be legal plus easily another 2 hours on each end to get loaded unloaded.