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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;G/MAN, post: 2257518, member: 48687&quot;]Each load is a negotiation. Depending on where you are running, rates can be cheap or decent. If you are not happy with the loads that you are getting from one broker then find another. I just spoke with a consignee yesterday and was told that he has been paying $3.50 to have product shipped. Some brokers are finding trucks for $2/mile or less. Perhaps it is time to start making some calls to shippers and cut the broker out. But, you still need to know your market and what you want for a rate. CH Robinson has good and poor paying freight. Some of the small brokers will pay a righer rate than some of the big brokers. I have not done business with TQL for at least a couple of years. They try to make too much off the rate and I won&#039;t haul below a certain point. Some of the bigger brokers will take a certain number or loads for an agreed rate. The actual rate the shipper pays could be $3/mile or more. One he contracts with the shipper then it is up to the broker to find trucks and get them for as low a rate as he can. If he can get a truck for $1.50/mile then he sticks the difference in his pocket. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>You need to decide on what you want to haul a load. All too often carriers rely on the broker to tell them what they will haul a load for when it is actually the carrier or owner operator who decides his rate. If you need $2/mile then don&#039;t take anything less. When a broker tells me what a rate is to a certain area and it is not what I need, then I come back and tell him that I get $? to go to that area. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Most rates I see coming out of Texas are much less than $2/mile, yet shiippers are many times paying well over $3/mile to ship their products. You need to be proactive when it comes to negotiating rates. If you can&#039;t find the rate you want in a particular area, then you have the option to move your truck to a better area or take the cheap load.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>If you want to lease your flatbed to another carrier, then you may take a look at CRST Malone. I think they are averaging around $2/mile to the truck.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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