It's time for a strike!

if you driving a BMW you aint that succesfull buddy...now if you have trucks/trailers paid for ...a 500,000 home thats paid for, hummer and escalade sitting in your front yard thats paid for then your balling!..Believe it or not with all these things i have to admit that i am struggling right now in trucking business but i can afford to sit if i have to or till my customer raises FSC.

What seems to me is your customers are dime a dozen, if one doesnt pay what you do is go to the next one...but when work will slow down your customers wont even remember who you are.

And as for buying your equipment on Auctions..just tells me more and more about your situation and money you are willing to work for...you might buy your equipment for cash on the auction then get on a road at 1.50a mile and turn decent profit but it doesnt make you smart, just means you can afford to run at 1.50 a mile cause you have no payments and your profit is ok. I hardly doubt you know what rates used to be 3-5yrs ago and where diesel was 3-5yrs ago.

 

Wow, we got a guy who has had a truck for a year, hauling dry freight that he gets from a broker, who is so great that he is totally unaffected by the economy, the price of energy, taxes, changes in technology, or anything else.

You are really wasting your talents young man, you should get right down to the headquarters of US Steel, or Dupont and show them how it's done.

I got news for you. Technology is going to change. The first thing they are going to start putting on the freight trains are "non perishables" like dry freight, and building materials in bulk.

 

Until there is railroad tracks going to every single business out there, I say we are safe to say truckers have been around for years and will continue to be there in the future! I am unaffected by the economy because when my fuel or other expenses go up, so does my cost per mile that I charge.

 

Trust me my friend I ain't bragging about my BMW, matter of fact it is a 1989 (old school is the way to go), however my truck and trailer is paid for! I am by far no baller, just the average o/o who is MAKING MONEY. I won't work for $1.50 a mile and I work directly with one broker who treats me well, and btw I don't run otr I am home almost every night. I live in a hot spot for dry vans so that is why I got into it. Unlike most of the new o/o's (and some older who surived) i spent plenty of time as a company driver getting my expeirence and over a year of planning the business out unlike the ones who drive for 6 months as a company driver, then decide to lease (been there done that, thanks CR England for teaching me a very hard lesson).

Even though I have a paid for truck/trailer I still pay myself a truck payment (truck won't last forever), maintence account, retirement account, salary, tire account, etc. etc.... I make darn sure I am remebered because I always have a clean truck/trailer (yes I think a clean truck pays off), always clean shaven, fresh showered, and I always wear a unifomed shirt with my company name and my name on it.

My big question is why don't you guys just raise your operating cost? If EVERY truck out there raised their cost when expeneses go out, then shippers/brokers will be FORCED to pay more! Every time someone hauls cheap freight they are shooting themselves in the foot by allowing that cheap load to get shipped.

 

What can you do when your customer doesnt want to pay anymore? where they will say they have somebody way cheaper to pull the load...all i can do is tell them NO in a nice way and look for more shippers that do pay, however during this economy and this weak supply on demand you cant do much...i used to run 7 reefers non stop....now i only run 3 guys for one customer that pays good monies...everybody is trying to survive..the problem right now is the economy..supply on demand is so much weaker than it used to be resolving in many shippers trying to find cheaper guys to haul. look at the shippers point of view...if he used to have 100 loads to ship a week and now he only has 10 loads to ship...big difference..sure theres some strong accounts out there but even those accounts slowly but surely are fading away. What im trying to say is that your area might be hot right now for dry vans but you never know what might happen in a month or so.

 

He might have had a silver spoon from the get go....

 

I'm so sick of all this bickering on this thread.

I think it's run its course. What about you, mods?

 

I have been watching this thread all morning!

And was about to close it....but you beat me to my post! lol......

 

You can't haul that cheap freight, thats the bottom line! Tell them NO and let the bottom feeders die off hauling it! Wouldn't you rather sit at home drinking a beer and go broke or haul somebody elses crap going broke? My broker said his freight is up right now (at least in the dry van around here).

 

Will REOPEN when the Temperature cools down in here!