Biggest Headache of being an O/O

If there was a pure nyc run (5 burroughs and long island), I'd make bank. Typically it'd pay on 1300 miles, plus anywhere from 20 to 30 stops. As much as I hated it, I preferred a full week of that. Now if we go in, it's for 1 stop and not worth it. Literally doesn't pay to go into that area for 1 stop. Which baffles me that someone will go there for peanuts.
My father and I agreed that we banked all our money to ride out this storm. Once the peanut gallery goes belly up, the big guns come out swinging... any day now

 

You got that right!

 

Navigating through lots of cheap freight

 

This is actually a very inaccurate long standing rumor. Since I was a kid people have always claimed the megas pull cheap freight, our was no more truth then than it is now.
while a few specific contracts may be what we consider cheap, they use them specifically for consistent back hauls to their good paying loads, most of their rates are fairly high. Mercer, land star, Werner, swift. Every large carrier quotes rates within pennies of each other.

They don't love undercutting an o/o with a cheaper truck and low driver pay. They love matching an o/o rate with the benefits of much larger capacity, then brokering that load to other owner ops while keeping a slice of the pie.

Case in point, years ago when I worked for my family we shipped up to ten loads a day so got a fair bit of experience listening to carrier sales reps. It was mainly mid sized regional carriers here in the south east. And with rare exception when a guy called looking for loads, the cheapest offers were from one truck owner operators.

 

If I had to pick one single thing it would be the 14 hour rule. That has caused more problems than any one thing I can think of. It caused more problems, unsafe behavior and headaches while solving nothing. Whoever wrote that into law was short-sighted. I wish it were back to the old rule of no more than 15 (or now maybe 14 I guess) hours in a 24 hour period. Seemed to work better to me. jmo

 

Fraud committed by Brokers; When will Men Act Like Men

 

Curious, what was the biggest Detention & Layover pay paid out by CH Robinson.

(Myself, I've sat 8 hours on dock waiting to be off loaded. CH Robinson paid out $25.00 per hour after 6 hours. wtf....?).