The Driver Shortage is a huge lie.

I am tired of hearing about a supposedly 100,000 driver shortage we got in the US, well how come that with so many trucks shorts that we supposedly have, and having a gallon of fuel at $3.50 average nationwide, the brokers don't want to pay more than $1.50 a mile for any trip in Texas and $1.00 in North Florida? ($0.85 in South Florida), It's not that when you have a shortage you have to pay more to compensate for the trucks you don't have? Or am I wrong? I just spend a whole day last week trying to get a decent trip to get out of Texas (around $2.00 a mile) and couldn't find any, that is just after coming out of North Florida at $ $1.02 a mile. I am seriously thinking in going home and park my truck, there is no money to make with actual prices. More than the shortage rumor is made it so they can keep the market saturated of truckers (expecting to make a profit w/o really making it) and keeping transport (and goods) prices artificially low. Anybody has any idea how many O/O goes bankrupt any given year?.

 

If they really have shortage in the big companies, somebody have to cover those trips some way or another, normally the big companies pass those trips to loadboards to be covered by independent O/O, where are they?

 

If brokers can still laugh in your face when you ask them for $2.00 a mile in Texas (nothing out of the ordinary having fuel at $3.50 a gallon), it's because they have plenty of trucks moving their loads at the price they offer, and can afford to laugh when you ask them a regular price.

 

I don't need nobody making money for me, just having decent trips will do the trick.