MEMPHIS AND FLATBEDS

Trucks still dictate the rates. You can't move the load with out a truck

 

@Hurst Yeah, really when things are slow that's the best bang for the buck with Power. Cause when it's hot they're going to beat down your doors anyway so one loadboard is as good as another. I just keep it year round because I like some of the other features it has too.

 

But I will say most of you guys know the going rate better than most trucks do.

 

Yet you do not believe that about drivers. Street goes both ways.

As for that cheap rate out of Florida, I would deadhead to Wyoming before I put a load that cheap on my truck.

What exactly is the risk you as a broker takes? You lose a customer or maybe have to pay a claim?

As owner operators we have everything at risk. One accident and everything can be lost. That is why we do not haul the type of freight you posted here and could care less what lanes are paying. We have our rates and that is that.

Trucks, fuel, insurance etc get higher each year yet the rates stay flat. Then you have the delays at shippers and receivers. That is lost revenue to me. If I am delayed for two hours that is $300 in lost revenue. You on the other hand just get to sit there and ignore calls from the drivers. Does not cost you a dime. Nor are your hours regulated like ours have been.

Yeah we don't know the broker side of things. Post it up and hope a sucker will call for fuel money.

I know about you getting customers too. I have to do the same thing. You brag about how many loads you move a day, you don't do ####, the driver does.

Lol you want to grab a towel so you can wipe your head off after you pull it out. "Every major decision goes through brokers"

Edit to add. I don't play the fuel surcharge game either. The rate is the rate.

 

You practicing to be a comedian now?

 

You are still a broker posting on a forum full of truckers. Thats like me posting as a straight man on a forum for lesbian women. It would be foolish to expect to be welcomed with open arms.

And for the markets,.. thats where I think you are wrong. Trucks have more of an impact on the rates in my opinion. No hard facts,.. just my opinion. Supply and demand. With so many uninformed, inexperienced and ignorant drivers who have financed a truck and flooded the market. They are all stumbling over each other giving brokers and shippers exactly what they want. Until there is a serious culling, this will be a continuing trend.

Again,.. just my opinion.

EDIT:

Just my opinion here as well. Brokers and shippers really need to consider this as a possibility. O/O's out number the mega's by a serious magnitude. If I remember correctly,.. 85 - 90% of all trucks on the road are owned by companies with less than 10 trucks. That includes solo 1 truck operations as well.

If the Mega's get their way and we are regulated and/or forced out by low rates. How long do you think the rates will remain when the mega's control ALL the trucks? Who would control the market then? I doubt it would happen within my lifetime,.. but something to think about.

Hurst

 

Nope not 8$ a mile. but a far cry better than 95 cents. I certainly didn't go into business to make less than what i could driving somebody else's truck.

 

Omg You don't really believe that do you

 

Sadly he does. But give the guy a break. He is young. Working at this brokerage is probably his first real job. A lot of us had out of control egos when we were kids just getting out from under dad's wing.