Flatbed rates i was quoted today

No, it's the type you work with to understand the needs of the driver and how you can help them and turn them into a multi-million dollar account. Much to learn you have. Mastering fly grab you have not.

 

You are correct. That's why I drive the truck and you do the schmoozing and wipe the brown stuff off your nose. That's not for me

 

Reading that just made my day!!!

 

I do what I can...

 

Well thanks just made my day a little bit brighter

 

Who wants to take a 12' OD load of plate steel, 48000lb., from Fairless Hills, PA to E. Pittsburgh, PA? It pays $2.18/mi., or $993.55 on 455 mi. The escorts and permits are paid. The legal size load going the same route is $1.52, or $663 on 435 mi.

I was just scouting out the freight coming back towards the midwest from the mid atlantic. It doesn't look very good if I have to pull a heavy escorted load through narrow PA two lane roads just to make my money. Some of the midwest rates going to the mid atlantic are pretty good, but there seems to be very low volume coming out. I'll keep running my short day runs back and forth in the midwest a while longer. Don't like getting stuck in Jersey or having to pull permit loads for regular rates.

 

Originally Posted by Flatbedn
But, most of the time they are brokered loads. Its sad the broker in some cases makes more than the driver.

You're kidding right ? I mean, for me anything under $1.20/mile is losing money, and that doesn't count paying me for driving, waiting, or talking to you on the phone, or deadheading. Are you saying that all those loads for $1.25 or less that the broker is not making a dime on them ? Or a load out of Colorado to Chicago paying $0.95 that the broker is losing $250.00 or more on the load ? Because if I haul it, I am.

Or you just assume when you send me a check for $1000.00 that I just get to cash it ? You need to brush up on your business sense.

 

OK…. Maybe I took that wrong…… But even with a “smiley face”at the end…… That remark was certainly less than tasteful. I find LSAgentOZR to be a highly informative asset to the board.

 

That is the problem with this industry. Somebody coined the phrase "backhaul" and since then it's just been cheap freight. Brokers use this term to justify low rates. Such as "driver, I got a backhaul for ya out of ND/ME/MT " ands it's always under $1 mile

 

Ive never pulled lumber out of MA. Only coiled wire which paid crap also. Problem is the big companies have contracts with these types of shippers and haul it no matter what.