Load Boards

TQL should be the last resort for anyone. I cannot trust there load until it's loaded in the truck , they will give you the load and then keep looking for some other cheap carrier to come along and then they'll cancel. I think they are the worst brokerage that i deal with. They have real problem with trust.

 

if you are running intrastate in texas you should have no problem,depending on what you are pulling .flats and dumps are in demand,if you are pulling a van,sell it.

 

The companies pay lease operators for all dispatched miles, including deadhead to shippers. We all know that, right?

 

Actually I just talked to them yesterday about cancelling their service as they're expensive and have now taken away truck routing. They have very few loads where I need them either. Do just as well on less expensive loadboards.

 

This must be the joke for the day. It sure gave me a laugh.

 

This isn't the only company that does that.

 

I'm new to the industry as far as o/o is concerned working for a company was easy i never had the stress of getting loads so am still inquiring or investigation the loading system here i came across these (4) load allocators www.dat.com www.getloaded.com www.directfreight.com www.trulos.com www.pickatruckload.com www.RightNowLoads.com

 

A lot of the o/o on here keep saying it is the brokers fault for cheap rates. Well is is not it is the drivers o/o fault for the cheap rates. If they did not haul the $1.20 pm freight then it would go up. Here is how it works a shipper will ask a broker to move a load from point a to b for cheap some one like ch Robison or tql will take the rate and move the load well that is the new rate on that lane because someone moved that load. Now is that the brokers fault or the drivers fault.I have had my own trucks and brokered and i will stand by what i do . I would not haul cheap freight would dead head first and i will not take cheap freight from a shipper they can keep the loads. They are not worth the time they take for what you make on them. I will give you a exampe If i had trucks in the north east and they want to pay $1.20 pm going say to FL i would dead head to NC pick up a load that will pay me more than the rate out of ne and run half my miles empty.Still make more money use less fuel did not run the reefer half the time. But you get o/o who say they will not dead head not making money. But they can not see going from Nj to FL pays $1500 but NC to FL pays $1700 you made more money as it is the same miles .

 

Or even if the NC to FL paid $1,500 you still came out much better deadheading from NE to grab it. Heck, even if it paid a little less than that it's still better than $1,500 from NE to FL. The empty miles are a bonus -ess wear and tear on equipment. But your typical driver cannot ever seem to think outside of the "I must get a reload within 50-100 miles of my current delivery point" box.... And of course when you're not getting good rates in the first place you find yourself in a vicious cycle repeating itself to wher you can never really afford to deadhead farther than 100 miles for a reload. The ones who think $2.25 a mile on 1,000 miles to Waco TX from anywhere, USA (say for example here) is a great rate - then can't find anything worth hauling anywhere out of TX - they realize they have been had. And then do it again, and again.

 

I met a flatbedder a few years ago during the recession. He said he could pull loads outta Chicago for about $1.80/mile.
He said if he couldn't get a load back to Chicago, he would just deadhead back and get another one of those loads.
And he said he was broke.
But he didn't seem to understand that he was running for $.90/mile.