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

you get what you pay for. My misguided belief is that the quality shippers and receivers won't have the time or patience to put up with Amazon has to offer at those rates. It may tank the spot market, but I doubt it will have much affect on the contract market.
My 2 cents

 

Remains to be seen. A lot of folks made big deals out of Uber getting into the trucking game, and they haven't precisely been killing it. I'm of the wait and see mindset. I don't know that they'll make the splash that they think they will, but we shall see.

 

But they get the 8 cent per gallon fuel discount from Pilot/Flying J...

 

They probably are going to have their owner operators haul a lot of it. They are already hauling cheap so no change for them. I heard Amazon is buying up pretty much every trailer they can find.

 

That’s the issue Uber doesn’t have a Fleet of trailers, Amazon does and it won’t be hard picking up 100k new trailers for them just to leave them at shippers docks.

Bring empty take loaded.


Depending on the shippers volume that’s how many trailers they get.

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It will be no different than any of the other companies that offer ridiculously low Owner Operator rates. The suckers are lined up wanting to haul for them. Why pay drivers a good rate when they are content with running for $1.09 plus surcharge?

 

Amazon really hasn’t done anything wrong, they have just gamed the system at every turn. If they paid taxes and didn’t exploit the USPS I’d probably be fine with them. It’s the unfair advantages they received that make it frustrating trying to compete with them.

 

This rate is probably true. You see those guys hauling May trailers up and down I 5 all the time. I worked for May and this has been going on for quite a while