Kevin Rutherford

Kind of reversed. A glider is a new truck without at least one of (new); engine, transmission or drive axles (can have two, but not three). The original intent was for owners to be able to recoup some of their investment if a truck got wrecked, but the mechanicals (or most of them) were good. However, there is a loophole in FET that allows a basically new truck to avoid having to pay it. That, plus the emissions debacle really drove up the demand.

 

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Where did you get these numbers from 85%..It kind of hard to believe your numbers when you don't know your on numbers about how much brokered freight you pull probably 20%? And guys that get on here with own athority and say now what maybe a hand full out of thousands if you think the ones asking now what ,do really have their athority .your carrier is paying 85% i know carriers paying 90.But your also paying his insurance,trailer usage
Etc.so your paying the same cost as if you had your own athority just paying him 15%.

 

You van see in my picture I drive for a large national carrier. Right now too many trucks chasing too little freight, so my truck sits. As for his advice on getting your own authority, the business climate and cheap fuel prices are the difference between now and 3 years ago. He also has partnered with Truckstop.com to help drivers understand the brokerage system.

 

You seem to have a good grasp on making "real" money in trucking and making sound decisions. I am like you that I have listened to him over the years and learned things from him just like I learned from many other sources. As you mentioned I also research things also from many different angles and get many opinions before jumping all in. I recently mentioned Kevin Rutherford on another post and some insinuated I must be ignorant to take "any" advise from him. I have thick skin so I really didn't care, but the proof is in the pudding. I am home nightly and my revenue far exceeds my needs so I am ok with some misguided critics. Keep up the good work as I enjoy seeing intelligent truckers as yourself speak to some of the not so lucky ones who hopefully can learn from your wisdom! Some never will unfortunately. Yes I am a tad bit arrogant, but I have earned it.

 

So if we find Kevin Rutherford to be a shame artist we are unintelligent and don't make "real" money?

 

No you have the right to your opinion. If you choose to confront someone else who values some of the things he says, that is when we would have a disagreement. I have not accused you of doing this. If you do so then we can debate in a respectful manner and at the end of the day we can agree to disagree if either of us don't learn from the other.

 

My numbers.......I said the 85% was in my opinion, the 20% brokered freight isn't a guess, it's pretty solid give or take a couple percent. We could take my settlement sheets out and go day by day week by week if you want. Let's see last week I hauled 2 loads 0 brokerd. Week before 4 loads 1 brokerd, week before......I have all the settlements since I leased on here in 2008.
(2 of the places we haul for on a regular basis only goes through a broker, the same broker every time and they actually have an agent on site at the plant, we, along with a few other carriers get a phone call before these loads hit the load board. Only the loads that the regular carriers can't handle or don't want ever see the boards. We all submitted bids plus FSC on what we will haul to certain areas for and that broker gets a set amount on every load and we get what we bid. So if we added these to places in as brokerd loads it woul up my % of brokerd loads a few percentage points. Always considered them direct since we have them added to our insurance, like Nucor does, when you haul for them.
I run three trucks with the company I am leased to and no trailer rental because we pull our own trailers. They pay the settlement weekly and pay all IFTA taxes. We do pay our own insurance. I don't give a #### if a company is paying 98% if there freight isn't worth hauling! There are people who have made a small fortune pulling for companies that take 30-40%. It all depends on what kind of freight the carrier has available. I would never consider a company that gets the majority of its loads from load boards or brokers. If That's all they had to offer I could and would do that myself.
Last year I leased a second truck (2015 Fitz glider, FL Columbia) to this carrier in March 15. It did $2.16 a mile for all miles.(103,000 miles March to Dec) Driver made 54 cents per mile for every mile he drove. The truck I drove averaged $2.40 per mile for every mile driven.(109,000 miles Jan-Dec). The third truck (2015 Fitzgerald Glider Pete 389) was purchased July of this year.
We run regional and have customers on both ends, occasionally if our customers don't have something getting us home we will book off of the board but we don't sit waiting and looking.
We will deadhead home in a heartbeat.
I'd be willing to bet I know my numbers as well as anyone.

 

Good luck man. Most people will claim you are exaggerating your numbers. Guys that have no business knowledge don't believe good paying freight exist. I regularly(8 to 12 a month) pull 10 to 50 mile loads paying me, after my carriers cut 650 to over 1k. And all these guys running whatever the broker offers them think it's nothing but a made up story. Ya i only gross 10k most months, but considering i bought fuel all of one for the entire month of November, I'm ok with that. Especially considering i slept in my bed every single night and worked something like 12 days the whole month.