RATES

This has bin said 1000 times the rates are this way because theres allways some one that will haul it .

 

48' Flatbed load from Jacksonville, FL to Burlington, NJ - 900 miles.

Payment? $1500.00

$1.66/mile. WTF?

In 1979, you were doing good at $1.50/mile. In today's dollars, that's $4.40/mile!

It's a race to the bottom....

 

Mileage wise that ain't too good,have seen worse, but for flatbed out of Florida, not too bad.

It is all about supply and demand.

 

I agree with ya Freebird,say NO to cheap freight. I actually think that there is too many people getting percentages of the freight before we(the truckers) get it. Like me for instance when I was leased out, first the broker got his cut, then I had to give up 28% to the company that I was leased to, so I was making 72% of what? Not what the load actually paid, but what was left after everybody else got theirs. The trucking industry has been targeted by brokers and companies that are in it to make money off the truckers PERIOD. I could be wrong here but I think that trucking compainies that have owner operators leased on to them are screwing them to no end. I caught on to this and am in the process of getting my own authority. Maybe I should try to be a broker too, maybe we all should become brokers, then the freight might actually pay more to the trucker than to the desk jockeys.

 

Tried that, still have the brokers license and bond. (for now) For the most part they're not making as much as some like to believe. Deal with the average truckdriver on the phone for a few loads and you'll be saying the same thing as a broker as you do as a driver. "not worth it!"

 

The name of the game is called survival... What you think is cheap, might not be cheap for someone else. With millions of trucks on the road, freight is going to be move, some how and by someone. All this bickering about rates, the only thing you can control is your operation period.....

 

It is not bad in the fact that MOST flatbed freight out of Florida is much cheaper.
I never said it was a good rate, but comparing a buck sixty six to what some, if not most flatbed freight out of Florida pays, it ain't bad. Most dead head out of here.
The problem is, there are too many trucks for the available freight. Supply and demand.
Also too many brokers.Supply and demand .
Too much of anything decreases the price.
And yes, hauling cheap freight ain't the best thing to do, but at times it might be the only thing to do.