Rates are starting to skyrocket already

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  1. Dave_in_AZ

    Dave_in_AZ Road Train Member

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    Oh yes. Some are almost double what they were 6 weeks ago. And all are going way up.
     
    Dave_in_AZ, May 17, 2018
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    Prepare yourself for $10 per box cereal and $5 corn dogs.
     
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    Higher rates doesn’t equate to higher pay. Just means more to skim off the top before t gets to you.

    Companies today don’t pay much more than they did twenty plus years ago when I started. Trucks have gotten more expensive. Repairs more (and quality down.) Food is higher. Traffic is worse. Regulations like eLogs are killing the industry. Pay though? Virtually the same.

    Then they wonder why nobody wants to be a truck driver.
     
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    But I don’t like corn dogs.
     
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    So you're prepared
     
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    we just need to hang up on the rate-con till it looks good to haul. not gonna let the bottom feeder broker grab dumptruck loads of money off a load he is hussling.
     
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    You and Glenn Beck. He was on about $20 box cereal like 10 years ago.
     
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    Did you do this too?

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    Yea I haven't noticed any rates going up in the hopper world and I actually haul quite a bit directly through shippers, if it was there I think I would know about it.
     
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    Rates going up??? If you were hauling for 1 dollar per mile and now you are getting $2 per mile, it doesn’t mean that the rates are up ! You need to wake up and smell the coffe my friend.
    When I see am average of $ 3.5 per mile it maybe ok, just ok .
     
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