I will respond to your original post on this line of thought. Are you saying you are willing to flood damage all your trucks? Basically risking putting them all out of commission, with tens of thousands in repairs to every truck? There has been more than a few threads noting how stupid people were that drove big rigs into flood situations, folks have said they would fire a driver for being that stupid. My brother took a load to Houston earlier this week, a load I turned down. Now he's looking at about 3-7 days in the shop, lost revenue, and probably $12K in repairs. Put up or shut up.
they are trying to take advantage of the drivers, I reposted one on my FB page where the load paid like 2260? I think it was,The broker had it up and the offer rate to the truck was 700..... Haa Haa Haa Haa!
The previews 2 years have ingrained a lot of smugness in brokers. Especially newer ones who have never seen trucks get really tight. They're seeing it now for sure. That laughter was nervous and empty.
I am hauling a load of donated items next week for free my trailer company donated trailer ,to my niece h town of League City ,TX for free , my time my fuel my truck , it my family and her freinds ,not some broker killing it ,not a over paid red cross CEO ,or any charities that take as much as 92 % like Clinton foundations ,this is family helping family, will I go broke ,no ,will it hurt, yes, will I put my self or my truck in danger no, but will do it again and again for my family. will I take a fema load yes if it offered at my rate and detention by The hour not on a daily rate.
It's one thing for a normal person to head out and volunteer their time to help people. Sending out trucks for free to volunteer? lol what kind of drugs you people on? What about truck payments, insurance, fuel, paying drivers, etc? You paying for all that overhead just to volunteer your truck? Why not give away all your money and donate your truck while you're at it.
Some broker called me saying he has water from FL to TX drop Trailer at delivery 30+ days paying 3K for the line haul and 150$ every 24hrs. Definitely not worth it in my opinion.
I just got offered $500 a day to drop my trailer for "up to" 30 days. Not bad but it could be a lot less time than 30 days, and it they could likely damage my trailer, but still not enough considering the crunch for trucks close to the house, which Texas is not. I can do better without being in that mess and all the uncertainty.
spoke with a broker this morning, 4K was the offer rate to go tonite OR load and go Sunday morning and 400 per day detention, 30 day max, waiting/staging etc. total offer rate all in was 12K Max for 30 days Must provide the truck and the trailer.
