Picking my own freight baby! My journey to & of being on Schneider choice, the Adventure & Numbers!

I know a landstar team pulling van that is absolutely killing it running a&e. Their numbers are simply stupid good. Makes my best loads look like chump change.

 

You don't have to be leased onto one of those carriers to get access to DoD loads or high paying loads for the van world. It's about the relationships with the brokers and knowing which brokers have those loads. Then it's making sure you're permitted, licensed, and have all the proper coverages to haul those loads.

I have a couple brokers that offer me stuff that never sees a board, requires special coverages for insurance, needs the trailers to be equipped with certain securement options in the trailer, and I don't have to share the revenue with any carriers. The owner op that's leased onto me has access to those brokers and I don't take 25% or 35%, I only take 12.5% to help cover the cost of my time doing the back office stuff.

 

What kinda numbers would that be?

 

What the heck is the difference between giving up 25 % by getting the load from a broker or gouging up 25%to the carrier who gets it direct? If anything the guy leased to you is getting shafted for an additional 12.5%

And ya small guys will get some dod loads from brokers. But they won't get the really good ones. I do these loads often enough and always look at the trucks loading next to me, specifically the carrier name. Billy bob with 3 trucks might get a conex box or a humvee, maybe even a jet engine. but he isn't getting a load of torpedos or crate of parts for the reaper drone.

 

First, you're assuming the carrier gets the load direct. Second, it comes down to your relationship with your brokers. There are 2 brokers I deal with 90% of the time and have built a solid relationship with them. Third, the difference between a broker and a carrier is I can negotiate for the rate I need or want on a load with a real broker vs a carrier tells me what the rate is or like Landstar has negotiated rates and that's it.

I have a friend who runs at Landstar and we have both called on the same load a few times just to see the difference between what a Landstar driver gets and what an outside carrier gets. Can you guess who got the better deal? It sure wasn't the Landstar driver!

I guess you're right, there is no way that could ever happen, especially since you've been to every location for pick up and drop off and saw every single truck that goes through there. It's all good, you've set is all straight now and we need to go sign up for Landstar or Mercer since that's the only real option for making money out here. I mean I should probably stop telling my brokers yes to the $7-8k cross country loads they keep calling me about, lol.

I'll go back to my part of the world now since you've proven us all incompetent to make money without giving up 25-30% to a carrier.

 

What type of fuel discount do you get?

 

Aaaaaaaaannnnnnnd we're back!

 

Me? Where I'm at now? Depends, it's not fixed.

 

Driver A gets 90% does 2800 miles at $2.5 per mile, after carriers cut is left with $6,300

If driver B at 75% does the same loads they'd need to pull $3 a mile to be left with the same $6,300

That's .50 a mile difference for giving up the extra %

Imo giving up 25-30% is only worth it if it gives you access to big money rates you couldn't possibly pull on your own.

 

What I'm doing now works great for me...but I will never be satisfied with status quo...i do have plans to take it up a notch sometime in the near future of few years or so as long as everything goes accordingly....