Rates are starting to skyrocket already
Discussion in 'Freight Broker Forum' started by Dave_in_AZ, May 17, 2018.
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That's not exactly what I said if you are referring to me. 4 a mile into MO isn't bad, time was the issue. I completely understand what your saying. You asked for other drivers points of view. With the scenario you have he could have offered me 10 a mile and I'm not sure. Money wasn't the issue, it was the time frame.
If I can run it legally, then yes. I am more than willing to wipe the sleep out of my eyes for 2,000 dollars on 10 hours of work. It's not disconnect. It's reality. -
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It's important to note that this didn't just cause people to enter trucking but was actually the last nail in a whole bunch of coffins. When some shipper closes up because he couldn't pass on the additional trucking costs in his market and was on the brink already it reduces the amount of demand. At every price level there is an amount of supply and an amount of demand. It's been viewed as an of course around here that there was infinite demand at every price level 'because they have to pay to get it shipped if they want to get paid anything'. Which is pretty good logic in the short term, but wildly inaccurate in the long term.sealevel and Oldironfan Thank this. -
I mean, it is hard for me to agree with the implication that the rates are too high (we are too greedy) and this could drive someone out of business.Last edited: Jul 11, 2018
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Thread is on here someplace. Might be the Landstar is getting cheap thread. -
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It's really about where you are in the supply chain. If you're in the bulk anything business it's like trucking... You have big gross sales and low margins. Having your biggest individual cost go up by 25-50% while the price of the product you sell stays flat will put most of these guys out of business. A LOT of them were able to pass on the price... But in agriculture they've had a very good year with crop yields so far so prices on many commodities have gone down.PPNLE Thanks this.
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