Carriers' mentality on late deliveries

Then find some O/O or smaller companies that need good paying freight and keep their word. Easy.

 

1200$ for 1300 miles is what .92/mile.
late.


I’m at $1325 for 218 loaded miles.
But i’ll be there on time, 50,000 lb load
Im back to 1 truck 3 trailers, But if doesn’t pay me enough for time away from family and pay bills, i’m not doing it.
I realize that was a power only move, where they could use it, but to me the trailer would’ve been the “load” and it’d had to pay worthwhile, but it’d been there at lot less than 7 days if they’d wanted it.

.92/mile i wont leave the house.
Just saying.

 

Ahh, gotcha. I thought you were brokering freight. Changes my attitude. So now:

Those dogs! How dare they purposely miss the delivery appointment! Harrumph!

Sadly, put them in your do not use book and go on.

 

hard to get out of laredo, with anything.

 

By offering that as a load out, you and the customer are taking a gamble in order to save a few bucks. The carrier is absolutely wrong, but it's not like you shouldn't expect it to happen. Unless you're booking the load to get put on that trailer, it doesn't really matter that the carrier could possibly get some freight at a maybe decent rate to land them in a place where they likely won't be able to get a load out of. I'm constantly seeing emails of carriers getting blacklisted by the local Utility dealer over things like this or worse. There are carriers out there who will get it done right every time, but people are unwilling to pay for it. The alternative is to get your own trucks and haul it at that rate and see how that works, otherwise just write it off as the cost of doing business and keep plugging along.

My advice is to get out of the power only segment. It is the bottom of the barrel. If your company doesn't give you a choice, then find a different brokerage to work for. Freight Tec doesn't seem like a very good company based on their carrier reviews. For all we know, the carrier probably figured they weren't getting paid anyway, so they might as well keep the trailer longer.