Someone please explain this?

Doesnt matter. I have never seen a UTI load that paid enough to pu it on the truck. They are on my list right next to those crackerheads at TQL and R&R and Quaker and High Plains and the list goes on and on.

 

Considering the amount of people that are fresh outta "YOU CAN BE A FREIGHT PIMP!" school nowadaze, there likely are 10 different outfits climbing all over themselves bidding on the same load. And it's possible that there are multiple loads to the destination as well, but the wide disparity in posted rates tells me there is some double brokering going on there. And as Real Deal said, UTI is king of the buck a mile freight. No clue who stoops low enough to haul that garbage but someone does or they'd have been outta business years ago.

 

I got a message from FedEx yesterday about loads from CA to CO. They were going to pay $5.00 per mile. Landstar put them up for $2 , CRST had them at $2 then took them to $4, and about three others had them at around $2.50. We all got the same message when it went out. It amazes me how these companies can take a double brokered load and try to take so much off the top.

 

These bottom feeding independents, like myself, are what keep the country running son.

 

I offer a premium service at a premium price.

 

I've always been under the assumption that independents take freight for a lot cheaper than the mega carriers, or any carrier with 20 or more trucks, just because they can do business a lot cheaper. No dispatchers to pay, no offices to rent, no extra trailers sitting in a yard that you also have to pay for, etc etc etc.

 

And mega carriers will take loads by times at less than cost to get a truck out of a bad area, or to keep all that iron moving. As far as independants are concerned, we can't buy fuel at the big carriers cost, nor can we source equipment at the price they can, although they do have a lot higher cost to maintain staff, etc.

Also, a fleet can run "x" amount of equipment at a loss when they have profitable lanes making up the difference, whereas a one truck operator can't do that or they will be a "0" truck operation quickly.