Business Plan/ Mentor Needed

In about 45 days. Once we start running we will be buying another truck and a reefer most likely.

I been asked to bid rates on lanes going from Montreal to NJ, OH, GA. I dont have the equipment at the moment to service them and also dont know the rates. How can I handle this situation and keep them in a loop and not get them to black list me by rejecting?

 

Here are the rates a broker gave me. They are so terrible, i had to share

Mtl to Neptune = 1200$-1250$ = $2.88CAD/ Mile

Mtl to Zanesville,OH = 1200$-1250$ = 1.70/mile

Varennes to Atlanta 2000$-2050$ = $1.65

To Terre Haute,IN 1500$ = 1.60

Thoughts?

 

A couple of pages ago I mentioned about my driver hitting the snow scraper. The bill came in at $6.5k + tax.

Here are some facts about this case.
- We are leased on to a bad but subsidiary of a large carrier
- The trailer was not the subs but their carrier.
- The scraper was in the customer yard.
- There was snow under the scraper which caused the trailer to shift up.
- The carrier did not keep us in loop when getting the work done I could have saved around 2k getting the same work done. I was surprised with the invoice today.
- I dont know whose responsibility is it to clean snow under the scraper.
- The driver was not provided training to operate the scraper.
- We have about $2700cad as a hold back with the carrier.
- I dont care if we loose the work a d the driver doesnt care either.

Now, I know this is a business expense but payinf 6500cad without doing any investigation to try to save some monry is foolish.

What are some options I have?
Do you want pictures of the damage?

 

I am now loosing my sleep over this.

Looking at a bill of $7500 for small driver negligence is a nightmare