Amazon from Chester VA to Balt. MD

Im really confused,i have people telling me to get on the amazon wagon.two people i know very well claiming they making $1500 roundtrip carlisle pa to boston ma with almost empty trailers.
They adding trucks on a weekly basis.
Any truth to this or im being fed just a bunch of lies.

 

They might get occasional loads like that from Hub Group who brokers a lot of Amazon. But they are liars if they say they are getting it consistently and if they are getting it direct from Amazon they are working much cheaper than what the brokers are paying to move the same freight.

PM me your email and I can pass along the daily Hub Group email list they send out, actually several times a day, and you can see what Hub is paying. They will sometimes pay more than posted rates in the email but only when trucks are tight - which I can't believe that to be the case in PA..... also follow the link in my comment in that older post.

The actual Amazon direct contract is in that post I linked to and it has their direct rates from various terminals one to another. They are terribe rates. If you want $2 a mile loads you'll get them on 50 miles or less runs. The stuff going 100, 200, 300 or more miles pays around a $1.35 a mile or worse.

It's all in that contract go look don't take my word for it. And carriers are busting down the doors to haul it. LoL

 

So Carlisle to Boston is 404 loaded miles. Loads I looked at in the contract that were at Amazons near me in TN were paying like $600 on 400 miles or thereabouts. That's the truth...

 

Amazon is no good anymore that train has left the terminal. The only good thing they do is suck up a bunch of cheap stupid idiots off of other freight out here.

 

is that including fuel surcharge?

 

Are you seriously thinking about it? Look at the contract. Everything is in there. I just threw that $600 number out there it was probably cheaper than that look at the actual rates. And the fuel surcharge I dunno. I heard their fuel discounts suck. They have a formula in the contract for the surcharge. If it isn't around 24 cents it's a joke. I don't know what it is right now I have no interest in their freight. Its a waste of time.

 

I have an extra truck sitting so does a freind of mine who keeps telling me about these guys he knows are doing well having their trucks with amazon.
I dont plan to quit what im doing but maybe put on couple trucks with them,im trying to learn as much as i can before doing anything.
I know this guy and the fleet owners he's talking about for over 15 years.

 

That's not enough. Make it a thousand sir. Plus fuel and 200 in tolls.

 

Maybe their rates have changed but wow that is really high for current conditions. Hard to believe they would flip their rates so drastically when there has been no shortage of trucks for so long now. Those guys getting that rate consistently? I just don't believe it.

 

They'll say no thanks we have drivers very happy to do it for free.