Giltner Logistics, WTF? Is this for real?

It's better to get enough on the inbound rate to carry you to a better Freight area instead. Booking ahead on spot freight is a poor bet. Too many brokers will cancel the minute they find a cheaper truck. The only way to hedge your bets here is to get them to pay a TONU on the RC that will cover you to get to a better area. Good luck getting that to happen in this market though.

 

I completely agree with ya, living on the board is terrible & the boards are be filled with brokers that are two-faced enough to continue to shop the rate even after signed.

I pull seed out of Monte Vista for a seasonal customer up the road from home & it's one of the ONLY times I will go to CO, and going in I'm usually direct with apples/pears out of WA.

 

Last couple weeks I was rollin thru there they had a restriction for campers under 20k gross weight . No travel between Cheyenne and ft Bridger. So basically the whole road... still passed about a dozen campers both times. Driving slow af and getting blown all over the road. Stupidity is a hell of a drug

 

There are currently drivers hauling freight from Nebraska/Kansas to California for less than $1.00 per mile.
So many companies just hanging on by the skin of their teeth, and hauling freight at those rates will only speed up their ultimate demise.

 

The sad thing is that if everyone just sat and demanded a much higher rate, things would change. That freight has to move. So with a rate that low, is it the shipper that doesn't want to pay, or is it the broker keeping most of it?

 

No they wouldn't. All that does is keep poor businesses afloat. There needs to be a reduction in trucks, not an increase or stay. Your competition needs to go away.

 

And that's how it is here too in Canada and probably worse while most controlling the situation allow it to continue. It's unfortunate for the most of us CLD holders who are born in Canada now get painted with the same brush because we've become the minority of CDL drivers.

What you wrote is 100% the truth however some still can't see it.

And the Shippers & Brokers love this because with 5 drivers in a truck using the same CDL license keeps lowing the rates & they can pocket more. However, I believe by the end of June going into August a change will occur. Rates should start inching up slowly because of (2) major factors that will stop the chaos most have endured.

 

Nobody will sit, that’s been proven. And nobody would hold out for the same rate.

 

Possibly the problems occurring in the Trucking Industry!