I think I'll upset some people with this one.

I bought a wheelbarrow at Lowe's, and it went on sale a week later. I took my receipt to the customer service desk and got cash back for the price difference.

 

Not if it cost me $200 to save $150.

Say I gross $1,000 per day I work. There are 14 working hours in my day. I would need to find a shipper, negotiate a fair rate, fill out all the legal documents, get an insurance certificate, etc in about 2 hours for it to break even. That's just not likely.

I'm OTR -- I almost never deal with the same shipper and I have no interest in driving the same route every day or two. If you're local or regional, that time will certainly pay off, but not for me. Brokers provide a valuable service so, until shippers start using load boards, brokers will be an integral part of my business.

 

nothing to get upset about. see that's where folks get trapped, the 800 was spent, the price simply changed. you could sit and moan and groan about how you spent 150 dollars

to much. or next time you need tires you can do a better job of checking out tire prices. no matter how much you groan you still spent 800 bucks.

same as rates , you need to know your cost of operation and what amount of money you can haul for or want to haul for and get that or better. when you get a rate you accept, go on to the next one. worrying about what someone else made isn't a productive use of time and why many don't get anywhere, they are simply to worried about the other guy .

I know some will take a load and then keep checking the load board to see what they might have missed, instead of using that time to look for the next load.

let me ask ya this, if you worry about what the broker made how does that help you any??

its called looking back, when you look back constantly you don't see whats ahead of you. its a waste of time, always look ahead.

that's the point. second guessing drags ya down

 

how is it possible to go back Lowe's just because the prices went down and demand the difference?

 

A lot of stores (especially the big box stores) have it as policy to refund the difference between a current sale price and the price paid for a recently purchased item that was bought before it went on sale...so it really doesn't take much demanding to get a few bucks back.

 

don't think that wuld work with tires, but comparing tire prices to what a broker makes was a very strange scenario to begin with.

 

Best Buy does it