Truck Load Rates Halt 8 Week Slide 2.0

Heading to id now and hitting snow as well with 22 mph winds at the moment. Been as high as 29 and consistent yesterday and today. Warning for up to 60 mph burst. I am only 8000 lbs so have to watch what the hell I am doing.

 

Nice weather coming out of Florida today haha

 

safe travels

 

It seems customers are starting to lean on their carriers. Rates are being looked at as fuel included yet not considered that we’re paying those crazy fuel numbers. Line hauls are coming down. It’s inevitable but starting to happen from my POV.

 

you know, i been doing a certain run for a customer for a few years. It goes once a week/ i moved from $1325 to $1400 when fuel went up to about where it is now.

Aint been moving on my trucks in the last 4 weeks..... i see it on the board every week now starts at $600, highest i have seen is $900. Disappears every week at some point..

i wasnt overcharging at $1400.

 

I feel you my friend. We keep a super close eye on our stuff and notice right away when new brokers (mostly if not 100%) try and creep in. It’s appalling some of the numbers they are putting out there. Say a $2600 run I see brokers testing my customer at $1300 to the carrier. Just total crap honestly. We’re sharpening pencils over here but aren’t going to play to cheapest game.

I feel fine because of the rapport and golf rounds (beer drinking) I’ve done with the high up bosses, not to mention years of service but I do get a bit ticked when procurement tests the bottom feeders as benchmarks against us top flight companies.

 

Lot's of trucks crashed today. Had to pull over and wait out the last big one. It had the interstate down for 2 hours or so. Only few miles from delivery.

 

I had a load cancel on Wednesday that was supposed to deliver Fri morning and my reload was only a few miles away. If I didn't find anything that day I was gonna cancel, that would of given them 36+ hours to cover it. Ended up getting a load within 50 miles of where I was reloading at

 

What @Ruthless said.

Up until 2 months ago we were doing a run that moved 7-10 times a month, usually towards the end of the month when they wanted to stock up and their company trucks couldn't keep up. Was 1300, now they only wanna pay a 1000 and want it to be a drop trailer. An extra 100 miles tacked on for 300 less. Nope.

May have found a bigger company to cover it but I haven't seen it on the boards.

Another local 100mi load I was doing usually 2x a week or so that hasn't been on the boards in over a month. Probably going on the brokers own trucks since they're main carrier out of there

 

Hard to know sometimes when to play the game or when to not. It’s hard being ok with home runs when you’ve been hitting consistent grand slams the last two years.

But, better then not having any at bats.