Amazon now a Freight Brokerage, Slashing rates 30% below market nationally.

With the grace of God and Fortunately enough to have found this place I have learned so much on how to talk to brokers and lots of other details from maintenance to just driving that made me able to get the rates I want and need to succeed.

Even though I have a truck payment it’s less then a grand a month and it’s not new, which keeps my costs down enough to not haul cheap freight and be able to park and not drive for a few days when rates are bad or until I get a call from a broker offering me what I need.


I just gotta do this for the next five years until i get out of the mess I’m in.

 

IT'S TIME TO SIT ON WALFARE AND FIND SOME CASH WORK...LOL

 

My truck is about worn out anyway and I'm definitely not going to buy another truck in this market. If they succeed in killing the freight rates then I'll just say forget it when my insurance comes up for renewal. There's plenty of other things I can do that pay just fine.

 

Is this the same as the relay board or something totally different ?

 

Something like Uber freight, but this time amazon doing it, they don’t have an issue add 100k trailers to their fleet to start this off or slowly increasing it while utilizing carrier trailers.

 

We'll probably start hearing lots of stories about Amazon freight brokerage pulling one over on drivers with unexpected 24-48 hours drop destination for the trailer paying zero $ or zero $ for 10hr, 24 hrs, 36hrs loading/unloading delays etc, etc. If you're gonna undercut the competition you gotta go all out and truck driver accessories pay is the easiest and first place to cut.

 

The thing that could sort this out is Antitrust Law, it's 100% predatory pricing. Amazon is big enough they don't need to make money on this industry, and they benefit from reduced freight costs in the dry van market due to how much shipping they use.

Then again they've used predatory pricing for years in the retail space. The problem is it's hard to prove predatory pricing until they drive all the competition out and start raising prices.

I only ordered like five things from Amazon this week, I'm trying!

 

They stop hauling cheap freight when they go bankrupt... The problem is that there seems to be a never ending supply of fly by night carriers that jump at any and all freight to keep the truck moving.

 

Yeppers, I talked to a buddy yesterday that told me there's a contingency of of East Indian O/O who run May Trucking's freight up and down the I-5 corridor for $0.95 a mile plus FSC.

There's an endless supply of these guys willing to do it I guess.