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Maybe everyone has as many cars as they need. The whole supply/demand thingy.
Jus sayin

 

Brokers can list for .10 cpm and hope that some desperate scmuck will pic it up. Don’t be a desperate schuck.
Set your search at the rate that you are willing to haul, so you don’t see all the cheap crap.
What am I doing here? I don’t even haul cars.

 

Problem is that there way too many schmucks out there !! Always has been-always will be .

 

I saw a F350 truck posted from PHX to North Cal for $750 COD but the broker wanted half of that. Who hauls these loads? Also cars from PHX to Riverside for $60. I'll just park my trucks until the rates go up.

 

Who hauls these loads you ask ? NOT me !!!!!!

 

Glad Im not the only person with a burr up his butt about this.

How about this one...5 units From Killeen TX (military move) two drops MD and NJ .22 cpm per unit. And yet some mother father sister brother will take it.

Please please please stop taking cheap freight!

 

This happens every time the auction slows down. Too many trucks with too little freight equals bad rates... It's almost March, it will pick up.

 

Is this true @Hammer166

 

The stuff on Central Dispatch is ridiculously cheap for the most part And yes, the brokers drop the rate when it's slow, and the fools who solely depend on the load board will haul them for way too little.

But it doesn't effect you if you have a customer base. Yes, your volume might drop some, but your rates are stable. We only use the board for fillers, and if they're too cheap we'll run light. The units we do book tend to be to/from areas off the beaten path and have decent rates. Just last week I had a Chicago to boofoo ND unit that paid ~$1.00/mile.