FSC doesn't matter....or does it???

I suppose that I was not clear with my example. The figures that I noted were meant to represent truck money after the carrier got their share. The money is the same. In one example the fsc is broken out and the other it isn't. The money to the truck is the same.

 

Diger, you have to look at each situation on a case by case basis. When looking at leases you have to use real lease percentages and fixed costs vs made up numbers that are used as examples. I could give you numbers that look real that support both cases.

So that this discussion in not completely academic I ran all the spot market loads that my drivers ran for the past 3-months. Less than 10% had FSC broken out (95% of the direct freight had FSC as a line item). I pulled these loads into a spreed sheet and ran an assumption of paying an FSC on loaded miles (as calculated by PC-miler in my dispatch software). In order to do this I would have to charge an additional 3% in my lease. This would not be a good deal for my drivers.

"This would not be a good deal for MY drivers."

But for some it would be better running with a company created FSC and getting less percentage (like if you ran high miles on a weekly basis).

All these things need to be taken into account with REAL numbers not just a bunch of numbers all us keyboard Rambos want to make up. Because based on who we are trying to discredit or what our opinion is we could all come up with convincing numbers to prove our case.