Hey ! Im new to the trucking industry and just wanted to pick your brain on obtaining a dedicated ? Any an all advise helps!
Here's some advice. Stay away from Amazon. Most brokered freight is going for $1/mile at best right now so I can only imagine Amazon is moving for 50 cents.
I’m in Gary In. Nothing in Chicagoland worth hauling. Never thought I’d see the day. Deadheading home 270 miles. Had enough fun.
See anything worth taking? Most are to dead areas,$1.30 mile. Big waste of time. Loads to Detroit usually $500-$600. By the time I DH for a short trip, It’s not worth it, end up at 1.00 if Lucky.If they had one right here for $400, I’d take it. So far, I’m at $3750 for 6 days. 2350 miles.Lucky I got that, now DH 270 home. Bottom line, 1.43 pm home to home. 1.12 net after fuel. I can survive on that amount. But looks like even that’s not a guarantee. Rates keep dropping.
So after just about 2 weeks of using Amazon relay I quickly realized that there is a learning curve with understanding the intricacies of Relay. However there is no learning curve with this company and the driver support is virtually non existent. I'll be the first to admit we made a few mistakes initially understanding the post a truck option but by the time we figured it out it was too late. They almost immediately downgraded our app. Now my load board gives me loads in California and hundreds of miles away from my designated domicile. There is absolutely no one you can talk to about this and no one ever responds to the email provided. The warehouses that service the post offices are chaotic and very unorganized, and quite frankly no one seems to care. Your freight is all over the place the pallets are poorly stacked ready to tip over during transport and there's no driver assistance even on your first visit. Your virtually left to figure it all out yourself. One you get behind schedule Support is calling and emailing all day and then they mark your performance grade poorly which affects the amenities your recieve from the app. When you get to the post office your expected to know what to do and some of the employs there are bossy as if you work for them. This business model is not sustainable for Amazon. To top it all off the pay is very poor, especially the multiple stop runs involving the post office. If Mr Bezos new about the dysfunction that was occurring in his business he would loose his mind. Amazon better get it together before another company sneaks in the back door and starts to eat away at there market.
