Load boards

Your plan is to find out the rate and then undercut the broker? Undercut a third party whose only selling point is low price? That's a tough race to win...maybe don't deal with cheap brokers, and when you sell your services: sell on what services you can provide that a broker cannot.
My two cents.
Two weeks ago I ran 403 loaded miles with 4 stops. Load thru a broker I had never dealt with before, $2370. All in the "no good paying freight northeast"
what do I know I haven't been at this long under my own authority :/

 

Does f2f allow ppl with their own authority to haul loads for them?

 

Yes, they'll broker freight to outside carriers. The confirmation will come from Covenant not Farm2Fleet. Farm2Fleet no longer has brokerage authority. I know of one independent from TTR who got a "Covenant" load from Bill a few weeks ago. I hauled one of those myself and met him. Don't know how often that happens but do know they broker a lot. You want in on some good stuff you have to be a known trusted operator like anywhere else and maybe you'll get that call.

 

How many trucks do you have on your authority? We just got ours squared away as well. Just gotta clean the truck out and put the company name on the doors and should be good to go. I have other income coming in but really want to get this rolling. What have you heard of f2f besides you can get your own loads? We can do that now since we have our own authority, why loose that $ f2f will take?

 

Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that reg only covered someone who was leased on to a company working on a percenage deal??

 

Your right. Don't know any brokers that's gonna show gross on a load. Heck they gotta eat too.

 

Because of access to quality freight with excellent rates that the vast majority of independents and small fleets will never have access to. The kind of freight that calls are made and it's covered so it never even comes close to popping up on ITS or DAT. If it does it'll be good and it won't be there long. Granted that's not every day and every single load hauled but over the course of a year there's enough of them to more than make up for any percentage that F2F takes. That is what's known as value. The rates more than make up for the cut off the top. I'd really be shocked if there were many independents out there pulling a dry van keeping their 100% that could even come close to the numbers I'm consistently pulling in. Even ones pulling flats and steps would be hard pressed to be there.