Self dispatch companies

I never worried about the percentage, it is what is left over that matters.
There is a lot of carriers that can command more money per load than what a guy sees on load boards,
sometimes 25% still puts more money in the owners pocket than if he booked the same load and paid 10%.

 

Between $0.38 and $0.80 a gallon depending on where I'm at. Fueled in TN last night just north of Knoxville, pump price was $2.93 and I paid $2.52. $0.45 is probably about my average savings.

I pay $119.90 a week for liability and cargo. The only time you can make more with a carrier that takes 25% is if they have good contract rates and the market is down like it is now.

That's why I left Mercer and went where I'm at now.

Old man pulls specialized freight. A cheap load to him is $4.50 a mile after the company takes their cut. Don't think you can pull his freight for the rates he gets using the public boards so he makes more money giving up 23% than what he would be making if he was leased where I am and was trying to run his same freight. Hope that makes sense. Lol

 

No, I'm with Cream Of The Crop Transportation.

 

If all your running is load board freight at 10% the guy “giving away” 25% is running direct freight, he’s making more. The broker you “negotiated” with is keeping at least 20%, maybe even 50%. Now your carrier keeps 10% of what you negotiated, plus you pay your insurance. Get it?

 

This is true in almost every case. My situation it wasn't cause I was at a carrier that paid 75% and I was hauling brokered freight. Now at 90%, even paying the insurance my profit is up.

But yes, you can't compare 90% of brokered freight to 75% of direct freight usually. Although I've talked to friends running direct freight at a 75% carrier and our guys are running for better rates on the load boards.

My biggest reason for taking the 90% and running load board freight was the availability of more freight. I can get home every weekend now if I choose and I couldn't do that at the last two companies I was leased to unless I wanted to dead head a long distance and not make any money.

 

I said direct freight, not contract freight. You need to learn the difference. There’s a lot of direct freight on the spot market, where do you think the brokers get it from?

 

Ok, I'll fix my post. The terminology will change but the point of the post won't. And I'm not trying to argue, be a jerk, or a know it all. I'm none of those things. Just talking from my experiences and the experiences of those I talk to. You're smarter at this game than I am and I enjoy reading your posts as I usually learn something so there would be no reason for me to argue with you.

 

I’m not trying to be argumentative, simply enlightening. Maybe I failed