LTL being slow with the customers?

So does LTL always have a steady supply of freight?

Or times it gets slow?


Doesn't LTL set the prices, they don't pick the prices, the customers are kind of the ones in the control instead of other way around? so wouldn't it mean that LTL their pricing with artificially slow down the freight?

Why does the LTL companies try to hide their customer lists? to find out if the LTL companies are complaint with the laws a thing like a customer list is extremely useful for the people trying to monitor LTL to make sure they are complaint? so I don't understand good business reasons to hide the customer list, or try to do so(other than to disrupt the investigators trying to keep the companies complaint). perhaps a good reasons im missing?

is it reasonable to think that LTL in general restrains trade on the economy? naturally at any point in time, the trade in the economy is restrained by LTL? combination of lack of job creations while also underserving the customers demands, and also preventing new competitions from jumping into the market?



Wouldn't it be good if instead of teamsters union threaten to shut down economy unless ups raises pay(the highest paying company). wouldn't it be better if instead the focus was on creation of jobs, and making pay rates fairer?

 

i feel like if they are trying to hide customer lists then they might be trying to hide their legal obligations to customers, competitors, the public and more. i feel like it's a work condition, it may conceal injustice, and i feel like it is a thing that should be able to be discovered and more transparent. what's your opinion?

 

there is alot of laws relating to the topic. for example laws against restraining trade in commerce, in order to ensure those laws are upheld by the companies, it's important to know the details of the customers and all the activities are monitoried. if it's too secret then misconduct against customers can occur and efforts to restrain trade. especially if international groups buy up big business in the usa, they can do localities discrimination and suppress usa economy from within the usa. i think it's kind of bad to act like these work conditions are private. there is also laws saying that work conditions cant be private. there is also laws protecting customers against unfair business practices, and protecting competitors against unfair business practices.

so having customer lists in these kinds of sectors of the market being transparent can help prevent injustice and fraud and other things from being concealed. it makes investigating the misconduct alot more difficult if this info(evidence) is suppressed.

just a theories. open discussion about it. i do like hearing opposing sides and angles of this debate.