Stepping Out With My Own Numbers

Please, tell him then what the market rates are, so he knows better. At least roughly; 2 $/mile; 2.50, 3? I thought, for a moment that 1.83 a mile is not that bad if he manages 4000 miles a week

 

Hard to say that when you don't know what his loaded to empty percentage is.

 

Spyder gets confused often. He pulls a skateboard, but thinks he knows the rates for everybody else's equipment too.

 

I don't own a steel mill but i know what market rates for steel are. Why? Because i know how to read and do so regularly.

 

You haul produce, frozen or whatever there is?

 

Has nothing to do with reading. I can read too. If DAT rates say 2/mile, doesn't mean everybody is getting 2. Unless you're actively booking loads for vans, you don't know what's happening out here.

 

Read what? His rates are on par for the current spot market as a reefer truck. But hey, we must all be reading the wrong stuff

 

Those are average rates. Don't be average.

Besides which, has dat ever called you and asked what you got on a load? In all the years i used dat i never got one phone call from them about rates. So how do you thunk they get those numbers if not from tuck owners booking loads? I suspect its supplied by large brokerage firms such as chr and tql. Now they wouldn't have any incentive to report lower rates than actual would they?