Under $2/mile loads with $6/gal diesel.

There must be people hauling for that, my guess is they look something like this...

 

This is not a broker issue and never has been

It’s a driver issue
If you were a broker and had $4 freight but you knew I would haul it for $1 would you voluntarily give me more?
No!

The brokers sole job is to get it moved. If no one took it for less than $6 then that $4 rate would go up but there’s too many guys and some on this forum who believe that fuel $ is better than no money

And. There will never ever be a strike for those same exact reasons

 

Let them have the cheap freight.
They’ll go out and I’ll be stepping around.


Excuse me, I’ve got things to do that are important.

 

Truckers strike....LOL.
Is this your first day?

 

Its funny how everything is going up but the rates

 

Supply and demand. The brokers will “push it” until the loads don’t get moved.

 

If you can afford to, park it. And play sniper.

If you can’t afford to park it, sell it.

It’s sad to see people that act like they’re on the deck of the Titanic, with a perfectly good cruise ship equipped with a gangplank floating next to it - and can’t see it.

Like @Ruthless said - “I don’t need the practice “.

 

However, exercising available unorthodox tricks such as making bad press for brokers or demanding transparency could shift the supply and demand equilibrium more to the favor of carriers.
I'd rather see the brokers go out of business first and only then carriers than vice versa.
In other words, if I starve hauling cheap freight, I want the brokers who I booked it from starve even more.
That's how I see it as a fair arrangement.

 

Strike.

Don't strike.

Sell your truck.

Drive more.

Do as you wish, but stop crying about your 1st world problems.

If you have a nice home, computer, tv, car, and furniture, you really are not very hard done by.