Beep Beep Roadrunner

So if you empty out at an agent, and there is no RR freight to haul, they won't let you book a load over $1.10? Thanks for the info by they way, those increases were needed.

 

Ok, sorry for the misunderstanding. I never dealt with that many agents when I was there. I found a good one and stuck with her. I suspected at times she was taking a larger cut, but I'd call and negotiate loads too, we were usually pretty close on rates. RR stopped letting I/Cs use their MCA number for load boards. That was frustrating. Does the fee still increase up to 25%? Driver percentage did go 92 down to I think 86 to 75, I believe it was. It stayed there until you did another terminal load. Sometimes it was tough to find a load that got you near a terminal, so I had to keep coughing up the 25%. Thanks again for the info.

 

Here's a question for you. Instead of always having to fight the company you work for on rates, why not go somewhere where the company wants to help the contractor get as much money as he can?

 

Because that is contradictory to being profitable. You get someone to work as cheap as possible so you make the most money not them. Roadrunner doesn't give a #### about truckers. That's why they have lease deals and all these fee schedules. $1.10 per mile. What a joke. But if guys keep pulling freight for that why pay more? They can leave it on the dock and wait for another sucker to come along

 

I'm not saying for roadrunner to change. I'm just curious why anyone would purposely lease To a company that's only goal is to get the driver to make the least amount of money possible.

 

That's a very good question. And what really amazes me is no matter how long this nonsense has carried on, there still seems to be a nice long line of guys waiting to sign up.

 

I don't think it's about fighting the company for rates. I think it was about trying to use their system to get the most I could. I might not understand your question, or perhaps it wasn't directed at me.

 

It's directed for anyone that works there. It just doesn't seem to make sense to want to lease your truck on to a company that doesn't want both Parties to make as much money as possible. Considering they are your income source for making that truck payment , I would want to do business with someone that realizes when both sides are happy and thriving it's better for everyone.

 

I agree with you, and it's a two way street. If you're contracted to the ltl side, that's their bread butter, and they have to have some policies in place to make sure their loads are being moved. I'll admit they have some problems, but they're also doing some things right. If a company lets you run under their authority, what would you propose as a satisfactory arrangement?