Charges for direct shipper

Snowwy............all I am saying is there is more to this than you know or are telling. There is no way in hell that someone was billed 65K for a 2 truck move........and the owner op on the heavy haul only got 15k..............what permits were involved........who paid........excorts? Route survey? Superload? Engineering review on a few bridges?? That can get expensive quick.


It's just not as simple as you are making out.............you can't assume people routinely pay that kind of money and have the kind of profit you are thinking. You can't assume the broker just pocketed the difference of the two numbers you are privy to.

 

like i said. all i can tell you, is what the trucks made. and what the customer paid.

customer paid 100G to have the same load hauled from north carolina. 14 feet wide, 130,0oo pounds. legal height. the only detours for the one i hauled. was becuase of arizona construction on the 15, and 2 wyoming construction on the 80.

legal height so i don't think there was much surveying. only had to find out where the construction was. and where they could legally travel for weight and width around the construction. as for permits. they are a heavy haul company. they probably have yearly's.

i'm not saying all loads have that big of a price difference. i only know of the ones i hauled. and most of THEM, were legal.

for instance, a load of chemicals i hauled. in baskets. on a flat. $650 for 90 miles. deadhead back for another load. about 20 loads to be hauled that weekend. 4 trucks hauled. THAT customer paid 2G per load. they were a fracing company, building a new site. so they stockpiled their chemicals in a warehouse. 90 miles from where the site was being built. non hazmat loads. all legal.

i'm sure most normal loads are normally priced. but there are a few. that have a huge price difference from what the customer pays and truck makes.

i can see the route surveying and what not. but i haven't been around those type loads to find out what they paid. only the one i just hauled with., and it was only wide and heavy.

 

Why wouldnt you solicit these customers directly?

 

Because that's some real sticky mud and once it's on your boots it can be hard to get off. Another reason would be that the shipper may have a good relationship with a broker and not about to farm the freight out to anyone else.

 

do you have a vague idea what you need to charge to make a profit?
what if someone on here tells you $1.60 is a great number to shoot for, you go in and quote it at that and after actually running , you realize its not?
If after you come in and make an uneducated decision on how to price your lane, then come back in a couple of weeks to bump up the rate , it might not sit well with the customers.
Play with #s and figure out what you need to make a profit.