Does anybody know where I can find the FEMA loads?

So you have transparent pricing?

 

ok reading and learning this will be my 1st FEMA please educate me... iam a o/o team , based in MI..... @ what rate would be acceptable . is it just to Houston or other TX cities , what daily detention rate should i as for, Or just stay clear of TX altogether .

 

No, I tell the brokers and shippers the rate I charge for my service is a secret.

 

If you are a true team with a good record on carrier411 I would be quoting between $4 and $6 a mile depending on the details. But for sure I would require a detention policy in writing for $50 an hour with NO CAP. That's $1200 a day. Or if you can find someone who can keep you very busy running back to back for less I would take that too. If 20 brokers don't turn you down before one takes your rate, you're too cheap.

 

It wouldn't bother me to see transparent pricing but surely if proponents of the concept think about it, they will soon see that the law of unintended consequences will apply. You know what happens if everyone sees that a $3000 load pays $2000 to the broker and $1000 to the truck? Soon the broker gets $1500 and the truck gets $750. Less regulation is almost always better. It's your job to figure a way to get more of the $3000. Deal with it.

 

I like less regulation too, but will we get it? No.

 

The fact is, it doesn't make a difference what the broker makes on any given load, and it doesn't effect you one bit. If you are happy with the rate offered, take the load. Don't like the rate, refuse the load. The amount the broker is making doesn't concern you and doesn't effect you if the broker is making 50% or going in the hole.

 

The fact is, why would a truck owner not want the non-truck owner brokers to have transparent pricing for their 'connecting service'? I know one broker who is making a gross profit of 100,000 a MONTH. Yes, you read that right. $100,000 GROSS PROFIT a month off the backs of your fellow deportable drivers BECAUSE the brokers are SMARTER and have persuaded OUR government to licence them with almost NO regulation and NO responsibility and allow them to hide their fees from the carriers. Meanwhile, our government keeps piling regulation on us carriers who have ALL the responsibility and ALL the risk doing the job. Most truck drivers have no idea how brokers operate. Most are master liars that make much more money than the owners and drivers with the 100k+ equipment and they sleep in their own beds every night.

Drivers do not want to even advocate for their own interests! Sad! But Lucky for the freight brokers, they fought and won the push that recently allowed brokers to keep their fees hidden from the carriers! Think of the stock broker and the real estate broker, they are required to show you what their fee is!

 

Sorry to hear about your jealousy against the broker making $100k a month. Jealousy and envy eat you from the inside because you think too much about what other people are doing & not what you should be doing to do as well as or outpace them.



So as truckers we should demand government regulation restricting revenue of a related field; and assume that if such regulations restricting free market capitalism would come into place, they would stop on their tiptoes from restricting how much money trucking companies and truckers make?


If you need to restrict what someone else makes so that you can feel you've made enough: you are an indisputable failure as a business owner in a free market economy.


The proposition you describe is the same as that of an employee complaining about what other people make vs how hard that employee feels the other people work.

What other people make DOES NOT MATTER.

If you need to restrict someone else's income to think you're making a fair share: you don't know what your numbers are to be successful.

If you deal with people that treat you poorly, or don't pay you what you feel you are worth: stop dealing with them and deal with someone else.

I deal primarily with direct customers: should I demand to know what they profit off any given load to make sure I get my "fair share"? I'm providing all logistical solutions: shouldn't I have knowledge of what they profit so I can determine if it's fair?

Everything is easier when someone else is doing it.
Everything is harder than it looks.
Nothing is as easy as it seems.


If being successful means holding someone else back for being more successful utilizing legislation: what form of government does that require?

 

The mother of all truck shortages will be upon us if Hurricane Irma hits a US city. Trucks better smarten up and bank some hard cash while they can because there will be a new flood of MC numbers once drivers start hearing about the kinds of rate I will be hauling for. And no, $2 dollars a mile is not bankable!