Truckers - What are your top 5 problems?

fuel costs are not the problem. you want high fuel costs the problem is low rates

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How can rates be the problem? They are currently as high as they’ve ever been due to high demand and constrained capacity. It’s an open, free & competitive market that sets rate which is clearly a “carrier market” imbalance to your favor in today’s environment. I know many, many carriers that have an extremely attractive P & L as I’ve seen them firsthand. And, I suspect that new technology platforms will help reduce brokerage costs to carriers or they wouldn’t be investing hundreds of millions in platforms that don’t make it cheaper, better and faster.

I also realize from a company driver’s perspective, wages are still a point of contention because they haven’t kept up with the cost of living and inflation over the past 30 years and that’s a different discussion. But, the reality is that some carriers have made dramatic improvements in bridging that gap and those are the carriers that I would hang my hat with. The bottom line is that no carrier wants a bunch of empty trucks at their terminals and because of that - the best drivers with experience that present themselves well as a dedicated, sharp, clean cut professional have the advantage with carriers who need to keep trucks moving and corporate profits flowing.

 

Was referring nvto freight rates from an O/O perspective

 

Your project sounds very good. Shoot me an email with any information you can share about it (trucking.shine@gmail.com) I'd love to take a look.

 

These rough roads that hard on my truck and body

Long hours/ less family time

Cost of getting truck fixed from rough roads

Other truckers that are idiots

Lack of respect on the Fuel islands

 

Parking ... if your not in a spot by about 5 or 6 pm
in most areas then you won't likely get a spot

E logs appear to have spawned a parking monster
now that everyone has to run legal

Other than that i avoid , if possible all contact with
the trucking culture in general