WTF?

you really are a piece of work aren't you?

I seem to recall conversations where the opposite is proven in the sandbox and you have those tendencies.

now behave out here

 

I don't think a single thing you just posted is in any way correlated to anything I've posted. I already knew you were greedy though, you were trying to reach into my pockets the post before this one so egregiously that your own tribe felt uncomfortable.

I make a living on volume sir. I don't need massive margins when I can cover 5 trucks on one phone call with a regular carrier. I generally do 40-60 loads a week in produce season which starts somewhere between mid march and the first of may and continues out to the week after Halloween. I make, on average 212 dollars in brokerage per load during produce season. Some of them make 0 (when a customer needs a last minute fallout covered and it would cost a little more, so I pay it and give it to them at cost), some of them make 150, some of them make 250, some of them make as much as 400 when I get really lucky and land one of those WI lanes every southeastern customer misprices. I get to keep 60% of brokerage so I make a very nice living. But to make that nice living I have an average of 14 trucks that have picked up but not yet delivered at any given moment. I have another 21-25 booked on the board that haven't picked up... At least five or six of which will already be at the pickup wondering when they are going to get loaded. And I have 5 or 6 horrible ####storms that have been on my board for a few weeks. My wife, and I, are both working 12-16 hour days, every day but sunday, for months.

In exchange for that I get to have a lot of time off in the off season. Which leads to bored posting on message boards about work. I think I have a problem. I really do.

My wife and I setup a couple of hundred new carriers every year. Think about how much work went into just making sure all the paperwork was right. One of our customers requires originals and the other wants the BOL ASAP after the load delivers. Think about how much extra work those two customer choices mean.

It's really not a bed of roses. It is getting easier though. I don't get woken up in the middle of the night as much. And the more regular trucks I get the less work I have to do. Also a lot of the situations aren't new any more so I react to a lot of stuff without even having to think very hard about it. Practice makes perfect I guess. Just so that you guys have some idea of what my day is like, during produce season last year I made 100+ calls every day and received 200+. Average call time was just over one minute for outbound and just over 3 minutes for inbound. That means my wife and I spent 700 minutes per day on the phone. That's 6 hours of solid talk time each, and I do 3/4 of that.

Yeah I'm hiring another guy for 2017 lol.

 

If i was not trying to take money out of your profit I would be failing to maximize my earnings.

Asking you to explain your margins gives me access to your weakness and gives me the advantage when you have the load that needs to move.

it is all part of the game, although we are just having a slow season discusion.

 

If you think the reefer rates out of FL are insulting you should see the dry van rates.

 

It's decent freight for the area for sure. What's the load value on lettuce & celery? I've always avoided lettuce because it seems claim happy.

 

Your talking out of both sides of your mouth.
You yourself said in the businesses that you owned
You gouged the customer for every penny you could get.

Yet your berating and antagonizing the broker for
Doing the exact samething.

 

I think you being generous.
I'm pretty sure you could get those 1000 dollar loads
Pulled for 900 or 950. Put a few more bucks in your pocket.
You'd really piss them off then. Lol.