Market rates: By Carriers, for Carriers

Some places are facts, some are appointments.
Mostly what i haul is 7 pm-midnight appointments.
Sometimes getting unloaded around 2 in the morning.

Depends on product of how easy it unloads, for a fact I know chicken meal can/will freeze in trailer driving on snowy/icey roads and it’s a pain to unload.
Most freight doesn’t have a fsc, you gotta include it in rate.
after harvest freight rate drops, a bunch come from field work and cut rates, happens every year.

 

Once a year i haul for a farmer direct, rest i use only 2-3 brokers who want dependency and on time, though some loads are as soon as you can get it there.
There’s several ways to be paid, ton, bushel, hundred weight, of course miles, most commodity loads by by ton, but some are hundred weight(rough rice)
Took a load couple weeks ago for 4.54/100 plus 20% FSC that’s with a lighter truck and trailer so I had 51k legally.
So then while on phone, you gotta figure 510 x 4.54 which would be 2,315.4+ 20% of that, $463.08 fsc then know mileage to swap it over, was 510 miles.
But now your in middle of nowhere in Indiana, so it’s bounce to Indy or mount vernon, in(lots of hopper loads in those 2 places, so it’s like Dallas for vans, freight out of there drops)

 

So cal right now

 

Is that the normal out there now?

 

I know you've told us before but refresh our memory....Are you an O/O or a broker or maybe a combination of some kind? What's your primary role in the industry?

 

Let me ask something...
You can come up with a formula of how to calculate your rate on a specific lane but how are you going to convince a broker or a shipper to pay you that if others are willing to take it for less?

Do you realistically believe that I could be awarded $3.75 per mile on a lane that pays $2.50 to every other truck that day?
I think that if someone has their established minimum rate and desired profit margin, e.g. no less than $2.30 per mile, that person won't impose that rate on anyone on the spot market, instead that person will have to find lanes that pay that.