Rates on Loadboards

Yeah or someone will want to pay $2.80 a mile on 100 miles Brokers will get flooded with calls if they post a rate too. It's tiresome and not many people want to deal with it.

I saw one yesterday with a posted rate that was email contact only and in the comments "do not call". I grabbed it up for $400 over the posted rate. Posted rate was OK. How many of you ask for more money like that on a posted rate?

I knew what the freight was, where it was going, what their picky requirements were. It was time critical and had to go. I mentioned all of that in my inquiry and gave my rate. I had done lots of automotive freight for these people in the past. It was a very good load.

Sometimes I will book one with a posted rate. Just depends on the circumstance. Most times though there is no rate. There is a 90 day average on any given load though. But you have to pay for that info. And what averages have been over the past 90 days aren't always accurate as to what the load will pay in the here and now.

 

If you wanted a certain rate to an area why not post it.
Would posting your truck with no requirements to have everybody blow up your phone offering cheap freight and wasting your time be a better route?

 

Because no-one will call me if I post my rate on a lane. I always have to talk somebody into my rate. And I don't want a bunch of ridiculous lowball offers with my rate being posted like Boywander mentioned.

That phone blowing up means money. I don't waste time on every incoming call. I only answer a select few.

Most days I will be posted and refreshing it ever so often and not answer it for 6 or 7 hours while I'm dealing with other non-work related things. They can send me an email it's in the comments. That's how I screen them.

 

I don't care if the rate is posted or not, I'll generally ask for more regardless, unless it's a holy smokes kinda rate. Their posted rate only tells me if I have any barging room. Like ones that are ridiculously low, I know they won't be into my idea what's fair. I still will call though. They are banking on a "back haul" what ever that is...

 

90 day averages are available on Members Edge.

 

So you see this exact info below with members edge basic $39 a month loadboard? The first attachment shows available loads. The second one is when you open up a specific load shows the 90 day average on that lane.

 

But you guys never consider the psychological impact of what that posted rate does to you. It automatically sets your expectation of the rate. If you had an idea that the rate should be 2 or 3x what they have posted you have already been played by the broker into keeping your expectations around their specific number. You lose because you'll think to yourself, well that's the rate, no way they would ever pay twice what they posted. That is the desired effect, from the broker's view point, of keeping your expectations lower. Just another trick they use to take advantage of you.

 

Yep exactly..

 

You need to post up some screenshots to prove it. When I had membersedge it didn't have that info. You could get it but you had to pay for the upgrade.