Stupid question alert !!!

For reference, I get 100% pass thru of the FSC and right now it's 30% of the gross.

Thing is what reaches my truck is what I should have normally got....I'll explain:

Typical gross ( billed rate) for 300 miles or less is $500...ok fine.....now under 300 mile trips are all I do, pre loads etc. But for this load I end up with $350 AFTER FSC which happens to be 70% of $500........hmmmm ( std trucker rate w/o FSC )

So wassup? Dunno, can't prove a thing and it would be bad for me if I tried...but it looks like my carrier is skimming from the loads. Where is anyone's guess. He doesn't pay me for pump and air charges so I don't write those down. ( so he can't collect them ) ( My retaliation )

My 2 cents.....

 

That would be a funny thread. "Stupid questions I've been asked by my significant other..."

I wonder, is it ever appropriate to call a time out, in order to go over the absolute absurdity of the question itself?

 

As Lucar said its a way for them to blow smoke. The guy I'm leased to doesn't even talk surcharge,we tell the customer,it'll cost x amount to do the job. The load pays what it pays.

 

If you have your own authority you will, in all likelihood, be getting loads from load boards and brokers on the spot market. You might be told a rate plus fuel surcharge but none of it matters at all. You are going to be taking loads that pick up on Tuesday and deliver Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. The fuel surcharge has no bearing on your rate. You just want to know how much the load pays all in.

If you found a direct shipper that had 2 loads a week for the next year and they want to contract with you to haul those loads you will need to factor fuel surcharge in so that both parties arent hurt by the cost of fuel over the course of the contracted period. On the spot market you know when you pick up the load that the price of fuel is say $3.98/gal and you can factor that cost into your rate for the trip... But you dont know what fuel will cost 6 months from now so if you contract out that far fuel surcharge becomes important so the future costs of fuel doesnt eat up profit later on in the contract period.

 

I bet that fuel will cost at least 3.6$ a gallon