Any Owner Operators willing to let me pick their brain?

Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by emmett518, Mar 30, 2021.

  1. Mattflat362

    Mattflat362 Road Train Member

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    See we are always learning here!

    So...now...that is a $4000.00 lane for me as well!

    Or at least $3k....why not!?
     
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  3. emmett518

    emmett518 Bobtail Member

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    Is a lane a truck at full capacity from start to destination? So a $4000 lane is what a trucker needs to move his truck from point a to point b?
     
  4. Midwest Trucker

    Midwest Trucker Road Train Member

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    Also Emmett understand that right now is the hottest market trucking has seen in modern history. This time last year you probably could have moved it on a dedicated to you truck for that amount. It’s a supply and demand thing. Right now demand outweighs supply by a good margin.
     
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  5. emmett518

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    And why wouldn't a trucker bypass the brokers, and go directly to a load board, and acquire the load there? What does a broker add?
     
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  6. Mattflat362

    Mattflat362 Road Train Member

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    emmett518 Bobtail Member

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    Yeah. Picked the wrong time to buy a backhoe.
     
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  8. emmett518

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    Couldn't a load board provide variety?

    Trying to understand what each player does in the scheme of things.
     
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  9. Mattflat362

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    I have been contacted by a few shippers from the load boards no doubt! I don't mind either way. I really just don't like doing the same stuff...as close to ever as possible.
     
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  10. Mattflat362

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    Sure it could and does. But IMO it is best to kick back and be contacted for a load that needs to go and those are the loads with the best rates.

    I don't do shipping wars.
     
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  11. God prefers Diesels

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    The loads on load boards are posted by brokers 99.999999% of the time. Shippers call brokers, and brokers call us. It is difficult for you to find a trucker to haul your backhoe. Needle in a haystack. Or you can call TQL, and they can handle everything for you. Then they will post your equipment on a load board, and a trucker will see it, call them, and negotiate a rate. Then your stuff gets moved, and you only had to make one call.
     
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