I would think shopping them would be your most powerful negotiation tool. Enough drivers call their bluff they might try some honesty. Don't think for a second they don't know where your break even is. Truck payment or not they know your threshold of pain. Push your limit by 20 or 30 cents and make those cheats work for you.
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I'd get ANGRY when I see that. Its a good thing I never have to deal with these people face to face. I'm starting to wonder just how much self control I would exercise. There is business frugality, and then there is "you sound dumb enough to not find out we are actually in this for $2/mile..."
90 cents doesn't cover overhead. $1.50 is kickin' ##### in this economy. Unless...you don't think so? I'd love to get a pm from someone that knows how to pull $1.50/mile on a regular basis. -
Well they never call the CUTOMER. They call a superior. If they called the customer and asked if they could increase the rate, they would know the load could be taken $2/mile. They do a google search and call up Swift. No such thing as CHR calling the customer.
The thing is, if your dumb enough to believe it, they technically can't be tried for fraud because its just one employee who said it and its not like they could really be sued for making a mistake. Since it is part of CHR's business model to lie to both customer and carrier, it needs to be done really wink and nod like.
Legal or not, I think some of these liers deserve an ### whoppin'. Unless your a saint, I'm pretty sure you could justify using force to steal $45 out of the wallet of someone who defrauded you out of $400 on a two day load.
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If you are using the load boards keep a little black book of shippers.
When the non compete agreement is up, go around the broker.
You'll be amazed at the $2+ loads you find.
I personally do not have any problem going around a dishonest broker.
Like the time I found out from other O/Os at that shipper that the broker
I used for a load was taking more than what he was paying me.
Two phrases you can start using on brokers are these. One is mine, and one
comes from my uncle.
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7mouths2feed, M.Enterprises and KO1927 Thank this.
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trucking industry and you dont' know TQL?
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Ta services,uti and a bunch more landstar did me ####y last week and has in the past chr is hit or mis just like landstar ive got decent loads from both in the past and then the next day they are the cheapest on the block I almost booked a decent load with raytrans last week untill I noticed their bond had been canceled with $6000 unpaid.
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