Please Explain This To Me

There shouldnt be many circumstances beyond your control. The fact remains, you want money for waitnig but dont want to pay up for being late or us doing etra work to accomodate you. And it goes both ways bud, your "innovative" ways to charge back $500 to a custy? You say that sales is trying to reinvent your wheel and "expertise" what are you doing trying to tell brokers how do run their business in their expertise? Again it seems like you want things to go 2 ways, each benefitting your siude.

 

Not true. Once you book a load you still need to service it. And yes we make X. There is also an equation for what a carrier makes. NUmber of days factors in. I dont know how your brokerage is run, but we see loads from booking to payout. And of course we are partners with carriers. I have many carriers i am partners with, they do me solids and take loads for less than they should, I repay them by throwing them extra scratch on loads that have room.

 

I know some drivers are raking it in. I dont want to be a driver, I have too much energy. And no it isnt back breaking labor, but it is exausitng, and it isnt 1 or 2 loads. It is 50 loads per day with different trans times, commodities, value, importance, drivers, dispatchers, account managers, sourcing mangers, customers, shippers, shall I keep going? Different personalitites, ethnicities, on both drivers and dispatchers. While you have to hold the wheel and do what your dispatch tells you to.... Brutal. We cant charge the shipper or the customer half of the time so it comes out of our pockets to pay a lot of times. I have an idea. I will pay you any rate you want if we split the losses I incur on loads every day? Sound fair? Oh yeah, you dont realize we lose money on loads all of the time. How would I take it out of the carriers pay? Perhaps some details to support would help.

 

LOL i'll give you credit, it takes brass to say the hypocrisy is on this side. How is the carrier taking all the risk? They get paid regardless on every single load, i have had zero carriers take a load for free, so dont tell me the risk is on them, we lose money on loads all the time. Again, we have lost sight of the original question. This wasnt a bash on carriers post. It was to inquire as to why certain things go one way but not the other. It isnt nickel and diming to use good business sense. If I can remove a full day of time for you, what can you do for me? Just like if a load needs to be somewhere quick and needs a team, why do we pay extra? It is the same amount of miles! Why are you nickel and diming us?

 

Awesome! Exactly the feedback I was looking for, thank you. Of course I expect to pay out more for added work, added days etc, I was only looking for a response to the opposite events occuring, Thanks again. Although you did give me a double take when it said the lone exception should be for a long shower. I figured your auto correct kicked in.

 

Not at all, I dont think I should share in their profit. But if they have to do extra work, they are reimbursed, if I do extra work, it should go to the carrier? Doesnt make sense.