Are we really this stupid?

It never ceases to amaze me, How stupid some O/O's are! I just turned down a load this morning because the guy wouldn't pay more than $1.75 per mile.
About 45 minutes later he calls me back and says "Hey I got some more money for you on that load and now I can pay you $2.00 a mile for it" (Really?) so I told him to go ahead and fax it over to me.

A couple of minutes later he called me back and said he was sorry but the load was booked already...Then after we talked about a couple of other loads he let it slip that another O/O called him and booked the load that he offered me $2.00 a mile on for $1.60 a mile. As it turns out the other guy called him and asked about the load and he said that he already had it booked so the idiot said...."I'll haul it for less if you'll give it to me!" he asked him what he could haul it for and the guy tossed out the $1.60 figure and of course the guy took it and kept the rest for himself and the "stupid driver" that's gonna haul the load isn't even gonna break even on it.

Now of course the "idiot" will be sitting around whining to everyone about the crappy rates that we're forced to haul for when he and others like him is one of the primary reasons that these thieves (brokers) offer these terrible rates on freight that pays them much more than most of you guys realize.


Me? I'll sit for a little while and then get a load that I can make money on because I'm not willing to work for nothing.

So I ask the rhetorical question.....Are we really this stupid?

 

I'm not even pissed about it....Just amazed at the ignorance of some of these guys.
Of course when he goes broke because of his own choices he'll blame the industry and come on here and start badmouthing anyone that runs their own truck and saying that there's no money in it and that we're all fools destined for the poor house...

The failures and losers are the first ones to scream doom and gloom to everyone else and tell everyone else that they can't possibly do well because THEY weren't bright enough to be able to make it.

 

Exactly....I have NO sympathy for these people.
When they go broke, I say....Good riddance!