Flatbed rates going down in the summer?

I keep my prices fairly consistent, as well. This same broker calls me for quotes and I give him the same rate each time he calls. He pays when he needs something covered.

 

Yep.....I make the most money when moving a load becomes an "emergency".....

 

Not all military loads have that many hands in them sometimes it's just two
or even one sometimes. They have started not showing the charges all the time on cbl. Just about all the loads go through one company and then are dished out to all these little brokers. You have to have a certain number of truck capacity to even get a reply from the originator, I had talked to soem other O/O about forming a consortium type arrangement to try and get some. Never went far as everyone wanted to be the cheif and no indians.

 

The only rates I have seen go down are in certain areas like ohio and texas. The rest have gone up. I am currently doing a load that paid roughly 2.50 a mile for all miles and that was a 200 mile DH I had to do.

 

Texas is down even us reefer rats.....

 

Nope, both of those loads are legal.... 1 is an overhead crane parts loads, the other is a ISU container going to Ft. McCoy

I won't touch a OS/OD load for less than $4 mile, because after permits and all the OOR routing you wind up with $3.50 and that sometimes is not enought to cover the stress and headaches of these stupid 4-wheelers aiming for the red flags on the load

 

Here at LS it seems the agents who get the loads directly from the govt have a good operation set-up. I have always gotten exactly what was posted on the govt bills, except for the 1% the factoring company takes of course. I like doing military moves as they are usually easy as can be and they always have some way of getting it loaded and unloaded..... might take them ALL day, but they will get it on or off the trailer.

 

I have always heard and it may be completely wrong, but I was told when you are just coming into the game as and o/o you sometimes have to run the cheaper freight before a broker will let you have the good stuff. Is that true?

 

get know for running cheap freight, be offered cheap freight.


I just talked to a company about hauling containers. They want to pay $1 per mile + .37 FSC per mile. To the truck, $1.37. No way no how.

 

From what i see every year for flats is, the rates the brokers post and offer allways go down about this time of year because things start to slow up some and they know trucks are haveing a harder time finding a load so they take advantge of it. None of my shippers have dropped there rates even though fuel has come down about $.30 a gallon here. Alls it is is brokers pocketing more money on the supply and demand, more trucks less freight but the rates in reality have not changed.