Trucker Protest

You blame drivers for taking cheap freight and now your saying take the loads and keep moving? I ask how would a businessman do it and you could not give me an answer. Nobody wants to haul for cheap especially owner operators, small fleet owners those who have bills to pay parts to buy trucks to repair. You think we are truckers first then enlighten me on how real businessman do it.

 

If you dont have the proper financial backing to be able to sit out a couple months without taking any loads then maybe you should not own a truck.

Quit blaming the brokers. No one is forcing you or any other trucker out here to take any loads.

A real businessman would have plenty of money in the bank prior to making the jump to truck ownership therefore when things go south like now he has plenty of reserves to sit until things get better.

 

I’m not hauling cheap freight for no one. I do sit and wait till a good paying load comes by. I did an overhaul on my truck this year and is a prime example that your not always going to have the financial backing you think of after spending the necessary for repairs. Also accidents happen anything could happen for brokers to think they can take money from truckers, because they do, just because there’s a pandemic or diesel is going down. Quit thinking just because you have hundred of thousands of dollar in your bank brokers should be paying cheap

 

Be mad at your fellow driver then for taking those loads not the broker. If no one took the loads I bet the rates on them would be higher, dont ya think?

 

Yeah nobody should be taking cheap loads but some aren’t so fortunate and it still doesn’t give brokers the right to pay cheap. Can’t blame the drivers being taken advantage of brokers should be held responsible too. This load are being payed the lowest I’ve seen in Houston TX and drivers are not having it.

 

JonJon78 you have given two responses that most people don’t think of. And yet they are truthful. Do people think that brokers run the carrier’s business? Do people know they don’t need a broker to run their business? Just a couple of things I will add to JonJon78 ideas. A little time reading this forum one can increase their negotiating skills. I know this is a unique point in time when much is required of our service, and like they said in the military “ it’s good training “ it really is.

 

Oh man... good training.

One other thing I'll add- it isn't the brokers setting the market conditions, any more than we set the market conditions that saw record high rates in 2018. It's supply and demand. There's fewer available loads. There's more people racing to get those loads. Brokers' customers know this. When we get beat out on bids, we have to sharpen the pencil, too. I like low rates just as much as everyone else around here. My margin aim is 10-20%, regardless of whether I'm paying a carrier $300 or $3000. Lower rates mean less we take in, and that means less money for me to pay such fun things like daycare or my mortgage. People act like we're out here charging customers $2000 and paying carriers $400. That's simply not the case.

 

Yea...last I checked this was a federal beef a violation of the Patriot act.

 

You can sit and wait for a good paying load all day. Loads are gonna pay what they pay. Some of these guys either need to park or adjust their business model according to the current climate. Drivers deciding not to haul cheap loads isn't going to make them pay. If the loads really needed to move, then the prices would reflect it. If business is booming, the prices would reflect it. These protests that these fools in the article do, its just ignorant.

 

Cars, trucks difference I guess truck drivers mean less to Americans. Example theres protesters blocking entire blocks for end the stay at home order. yet most of them won't get crap from law enforcement.

I agree there's no point because blocking one highway or even 100s won't do crap and your only make it worse for yourself. Two ways I see it protest at dc or state capital.

The 2nd choice rich people make a union and all truckers join but keep in mind what happened to the teamster with Jimmy Hoffa.

The 3rd and the most ludicrous idea that won't ever happen because the other side has much more money to grease the wheels. The government force companies pay all hours the driver in that truck sleeping included and the independent well the gov and will prob find a way to end you. They seem to hate you enough already so be SOL

The regulations they set only the biggest companies really ones at a huge advantage take those I mean these regulations designed for the newest trucks and since they made clear on their glider kits they basically said screw you independent, Those new trucks are junk they get crap fuel miles and break down all the time.