TQL Never again

Thank you for sharing that. Everyone should read this

 

Yes.

 

We’ve done over 30 loss for them this year it’s really a hit or miss depending on the broker that you deal with. If it’s cheap don’t haul it

 

The idiots did it to them self!! Stop hauling anything less then $1.90/mile minimum. I agree with many, TQL/CHI is crap. But it's everyone's and anyone's fault who accepted a load from them at low rates, they don't give a #### about you, Wake up!! They'll lie and do anything to get their percentage up, so stop having a heart when you deal with them and hold out! If you catch other guys taking cheap loads, chew their #####! Idiots think 1100 is a good week, my truck consistently makes between 8G to 12G every 6 days except for a couple of slow weeks like Thanksgiving week, because nobody wants to work Thursday and some are even closing the warehouses down for 4 day weekend, the push will come starting Friday this week! So stop taking cheap freight!! You have hurt the industry for the drivers end!! Be smart enough to catch when a broker is asking you about your loads , like where you got it from to not say #### to them, TQL is always trying to ask me about my lanes. Those little libtards will only get into it and screw up rates, beware!!

In addition to that, all you immigrant drivers, stop taking low rates, your in America now, not your home country!! I don't give a #### what was good money there, think about cost of living here and how much more money you could be sending home to support by holding out for better rates, and if your that broke go be a #### lumper!!! Stop taking low rates just to move your truck!!

 

CHI still crap, you said your self just now, IF !!! We're all just tickled your happy with them!

 

neils27 you made a very good post.

Towards the end your theory that Immigrant truckers coming to America to build a new life and presumely a citizenship and all that legally as many of our own forefathers (Including my own) has done. Are probably thinking they are content with .85 a mile freight from a American Broker House or Company or whatever it is collectively known.

Is it fair to state on my thinking that no one has been teaching these new Immigrants dealing with the Brokerage part of the industry to get loads say at $1.90 a mile. CASS Index which is fairly recent averages about that much in 5 of 7 Federal Reserve Districts. Some a little more some a little less

No one has told any new Lease Operator operating on a can of beans and a little bit of thawing out hotdogs cooking on the manifold in foil because that is what managed to keep the stomach under control this week for him on no money other than say .85 a mile.

I resent to a certain degree the need to go into the Brokerage all over the USA and clock them on the head until they no longer funtion. They cannot stand to pay 1.90 but will wave .85 all day long to a nation of hungry truckers not making any money at all on .85/mile.

Maybe it is possible that a form of regulation is necessary. You will hire this trucking company of three trucks, Larry, curly, moe to run a load of very important bales of 100 dollar bills to Bob Barker in Burbank from the Philadelphia Mint due in for 2.50 a mile. They have to be there the morning of the 6th day which will be friday morning prior to the taping beginning first thing monday.

Now.

Someone please describe to me how is it possible for Marco Polo, Sinbad the Sailor and Aseops with Three truckloads of Stories about the far east, Almost losing the sailors merchandise to problems in trading runs and finally plenty of ink, paper and writing materials for Aseops to create a bunch of amusing children books for Truckers about how they were able to do these loads for .85 a mile. because no one is willing to pay 1.90 a mile anymore.

IF you examine the last paragraph I wrote, the idea that freight no longer runs for 1.90 to truckers is now handed out like bread at a church food cooking area to those who come in hungry and have nothing to eat. The Cutting board is great for knocking the mold off.

Some one please explain how we managed to hand out .85 a mile freight. If not to me directly then explain it to FMCSA, DOT and Congress involved in the corrected communicates involved in Tarriff, Rate setting and so on.

The more I think about this, I feel that the Free Capitalist or Lassez-faire market economy is kaput. We may have to return to a pre-deregulation economy that existed well enough into the late 70's by making Billy, Bob and Brain show that there is a need for this route with this many trucks, and that these loads of imaginary stories are indeed carried around in trailer trucks for 1.90 a mile like they ought to instead of imaginary fantasies worthy of the excessively hot desert sand and overly pretty female at $0.85 a mile because Aseop, Sinbad and MArco Polo has become rather desperate to get home again and will get anything they can provided the less in demand truckload at a lessor miles rate loaded the trailer going home for each one of these hungry truckers. They can worry about things like the bank note, insurance, payroll, mortgage, tire repair, fuel and on on and on more so forth and so on.

That $0.85 did get them home finally out of the horrible desert land. where no one will get them the straight story any time soon. But why couldnt they get the ordinary $1.90 a mile to get those books to the three particular locations of home like everyone else was getting?

A moment to reach back into my first hand experience with EckMiller Transport in Rock-port IN. back in the 90's was a slow time in night dispatch upstairs with the ball game going. Even though it was something about a KC Royals or some other decent ball game there was not much freight that night for the 30 or so of us waiting until morning to see if any of the regular dispatch and office staff can actually dispatch on something. A visit to a particular shop computer yielded nothing. So I was upstairs with a goal to explore the immediate area and learn by examining what I might learn.

I made it into a central room that protected a very large spreadsheet printer. Once I scanned down to my unit number then found my social I knew what my pending payroll was going to be and more importantly what debts if any will be deducted and paid the morning of payroll.

The jackpot?

Actual rate of miles on each of the coil loads I ran that week. I was reading numbers around 2.10, 2.45 one for flat 2.50 and a very short move at 3.00 all of which is non disclousre to anyone meaning no dipsatcher, no driver no nobody.

As I assessed and began to absorb the next line which pertained to Operations Manager assessment of my on time and so on The night dispatcher made a lot of noise according to his job requirement and chased me out of there. That printer was the most absolute important anywhere in the building. It took company pay minus debts in real time.

This one driver knew nothing until I gained the forbidden apple off the tree as it were that night. That kind of rate information is very tightly held in the entire company.

I hate to say this but I think it's silly. Cass says eeryone hauls for a average of 1.90 from Yakima last year in the late fall.

Why not make the rate schedule and everything public. It really does not matter anymore all these secrecy. So Random House shipped books via DM Bowman from Maryland to Toronto for 2.10 a mile. And back out empty.

YAY.

That means Aseop, Marco and Sinbad should understand after they got over here to America that they too should haul at 2.10 on a similar haul to Canada from Maryland because $0.85 is not going to cut it here in America. Unlike where they came from previously.

 

I’ll deadhead 1000 miles b4 ever hauling for TQL again after my last experience with them. Drop them b4 they cost you revenue. Fair Warning ..... Don’t be a Victim

 

I’ve hauled very good paying Loads for England and Universal a few times. They needed the loads covered.Both will pay what it takes to keep customer happy when they have to.

 

A broker is just a person doing a job. The rate decides all for me. It really really really comes down to the relationship with that broker at that moment in time.

Honestly after running for 4 or 5 years now I don't even care what broker is calling me......just how the call goes is what matters.

 

Where do you find freight? I have been to load board after load board and they all have cheap freight from what I can tell....