Rates are crashing and fuel to the moon!

If you're referring to me that certainly isn't true.

 

Same load posted twice. $3,000 and $2,000. I take the $3,000. If the lowballer wants to make some money, he'll up it to $3,100. Then the other guy will go to $3,150.

Basically they'll cut each other's throats in my favor up to the point they can't increase it any more, because it's just not worth it to them at that point.

 

You’re getting the same fair rates now that you were a year ago?

 

Too many loose lips on this forum. Fools broadcast insider information to any broker/shipper looking to use it against the carrier in the future. Ever wonder how they came up with the magical $2/mile rate? I bet they read it here first then made it their "that's all I have in it" posted loadboard rate.

 

I had a broker tell me that he makes more when the rates are higher because he gets 10 percent of the load. I suspect he's lying because if that were true he wouldn't be trying to haggle a couple hundred off the rate.

 

Seems to me that most of the people (not all) that are struggling or already quit are the people who didn’t feel the need to continually lean on and push the broker for more. They either had “steady” freight thru a shipper or had 1 or 2 brokers that they work with.

The people always hustling and working with dozens of brokers I don’t see complaining at all really.

Now, it’s the same hustle just doing it for less but still finding those opportunities out there thru a broader network of potential customers/brokers.

 

I’ve been in this game 27years, the rates during the Pandemic were historically high rates, so many people jumped in during those two years, thinking things would stay high. Nope, the pendulum always swings back.

I socked money away, payed off debt, and built up my maintenance fund to over 30K dollars. So these current rates don’t faze me a bit. I’ll survive, matter a fact I will thrive during this down market.

 

Survive maybe. But to say you will thrive is BS.
Thriving with lowest rates and elevated cost of doing business.

Make it make sense

 

Wasn’t referring to you, just drivers in general.

 

30 day average on fuel mpg 8.3., my overhead is low, I didn’t go out and overpay for old ragged out equipment, and it have a spouse who makes 110K a year. So I don’t need to haul cheap freight to pay
the bills.