Rates???

Well,Your going to have to do that.

There are no alternatives, If its too much work securing your own customers...Then Go join the Union and Retire there. And I'm not being a [email protected] being Honest with you.

The only way your going to live Well and comfy is those 2 choices only.

leasing your truck on to a carrier is just not smart... And Working exclusively for Brokers is a Suicide mission.

 

Well, I'm flatbed, leased to a carrier, cash truck, little overhead.

I've found an agent consistently at $1.70 TTT ALL miles, after carriers cut. 3 or 4 days a week work. Light loads. Predictable.

Suits my situation, supporting a household of 3.

Find a solution. One that's suits you.

 

The only way to avoid the brokers is to find direct freight.

I'm in pretty much the same boat. I dont blame brokers or anyone other than truckers themselves for the way rates are today. Supply and demand,.. the rates will be what ever the demand supports. If you dont like a rate,.. dont take it. Its as simple as that. Problem is,.. someone is covering the load at the rate they are posting,.. else the rates would be more.

So the cold hard reality is that we can only blame ourselves for the way the rates are.

Hurst

 

http://www.thetruckersreport.com/tr...get-a-direct-customer-skip-the-broker.306494/

 

You already know the solution. You can not blame a broker for earning a living. Its like blaming a used car salesman for over charging you for a POS used car. He doesnt force people to come buy his cars.

Too many truckers are like sheeple that follow the heard and complain that the grass is greener on the other side. Not calling you a sheeple,.. only that this is what I think about the absurd number of naive rookie O/O's who do not know how much they need to operate and maintain their own truck. The insane number of people who think all they need to do is buy a truck and take what ever the largest gross paying load they can find. They post here on TTR all the time. The type of questions they ask often should have been asked long before they ever bought a truck.

If I havent found a good paying load by noon,.. I'll generally just park it for the night. Unless I really need to get out of where I am because I worked myself into a bad area,.. then it is what it is and the the cheap load is what we have to do in order to survive. I understand your complaint 100%. Just not sure your looking at things from the right perspective.

Brokers run into the same problems that we do. Push comes to shuv,.. and a load that needs to move that hasnt been covered will need to have the rate increased. I'm sure somewhere there is a broker complaining on some broker forum asking why he cant get his loads covered.

I'm from Fla too. If I cant get a good rate directly from shippers,.. then how can we possibly expect to get a good rate with a middle man involved? Brokers dont set the rates,.. we do. Rates are what they are because somewhere a driver agreed to load his truck at that rate.

The solution is supply and demand. Stop supplying shippers with cheap trucks to haul their freight and rates will go up. Thats the only logical solution.

Hurst