What tools do you use to get a good rate?

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  1. FlashBolt

    FlashBolt Bobtail Member

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    How do you get a good rate? do you use a certain tool that tells you how much a good rate is? or how do you determine how much the rate should be?
     
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  3. BigBob410

    BigBob410 Road Train Member

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    Usually a sledgehammer and a really big prybar!!!
     
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  4. TripleSix

    TripleSix God of Roads

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    This is a thread for @Ruthless.

    1. Make a good name for yourself. The higher end people will pay better rates for superior service.
     
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  5. Ruthless

    Ruthless Road Train Member

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    referencing your other thread of the same name: "so that the broker and trucker make money...."
    it doesn't matter if the other party makes money. if they do: good for them! otherwise, ####em.

    tools: experience is the best tool. tells you how much of a chore the task is; how long it will take to accomplish the task; what position performing that task will leave you in; what you have gotten for performing the task previously for either the same or another customer.

    If you're booking public load board freight and looking for a ''app'' to make it easier to tell if you're making money or getting ####ed..... you're getting ####ed. There's just too much more to the situation than "$2.00 a mile is great freight!''
     
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  6. Bigrayon

    Bigrayon Road Train Member

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    Sure for tql lol
     
  7. 6wheeler

    6wheeler Road Train Member

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    Find shippers. Best tool ever!. Don't use brokers.
     
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  8. blairandgretchen

    blairandgretchen Road Train Member

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    And you may take that to the bank, and cash it. 'Tis good.
     
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  9. Dave_in_AZ

    Dave_in_AZ Road Train Member

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    I show my legs to the agents.
     
  10. blairandgretchen

    blairandgretchen Road Train Member

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    Darn it, boy!
     
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  11. mhyn

    mhyn Road Train Member

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    I use my brain.
     
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