hey brokers, has elogs changed business/rates etc?
Discussion in 'Freight Broker Forum' started by freightwipper, Dec 21, 2017.
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Many small carriers do most of the contract freight. And they can not drop and hook, or repower everyday to make the delivery schedules.
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To your second paragraph-
How will they stay in business if they dont ship product because they feel the trucking needs to be cheaper than their product cost?
As a comparison: dirt is worth next to nothing & it still costs money to truck it. $85-135 an hour for a triaxle dump truck to haul $50 worth of product. People still sell dirt tho, n people still buy it too.
What are their other options? Let the product rot in the field/on a dock/in a warehouse? That doesn't sound profitable to me: but I'm in trucking not in produce.
Prices have to go up to reflect cost increases. The cost isn't the same therefore the price goes up.
All you can really do is kick it back to the customer that the rate they were paying doesn't buy enough trucking to move it at this point, n push for more.
Kind of one of those things; you don't have control over the thing, it just is. All you can do is adapt to the current situation, and when it changes again adapt again.
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It's really equipment dependent. My van freight? Smoking through the roof. Open deck is a little less so, but still up. It's kind of all over the place right now, and I'm not sure where it's going to settle. There's a lot of, "Well, let me find you a guy," going on right now.
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