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

This isn't true at all, maybe in some senerios but not all.

I lease my truck and trailer onto a flatbed company. All of our freight agencies here are independently owned. They are freight brokers. I've asked a couple of the folks I run loads for on a regular basis "what type of caller just takes a load without any form of negotiations"?...

Both of them said practically the same thing... It's the "good old boys"... those aren't foreigners....

EDIT

Just to further add, this question was brought up on the broker's forum a couple years ago. A couple of the brokers on here,, also mentioned that the guys that just take any load with no negotiating sound like good old Americans with no accent whatsoever....

 

Then I would suggest that more people sell their trucks, and become brokers, if they are making huge money so easily.

 

I don't wanna be a broker.
I don't wanna be a ballet dancer either.
I don't care how much they make.
I want to know what the shipper pays on the load I take.

 

Then go to the shipper and ask. Go to the shipper and try and get the loads on your own.

Do you ask your tire guy what his cost is on tires so that you don’t pay too much? What about when you buy equipment? What’s the actual cost on a new trailer versus the sticker price? Don’t you want to know that so that you know how much to pay? Or do you pay fair market prices?

 

What are you, running a business? Lol
Dumb it down for all the truck drivers that bought a truck thinking they were different than all the other almost has-beens.

 

I don't need to go and ask when they can show it to me for nothing?
Knowing what brokers get from a shipper is a valuable business information, if there is a political pressure on them to disclose it, I will sure take it and exploit it to my benefit.
I don't argue about tires price but I argue about freight rate.
Every time you know more about the other side, your position gets stronger.
I don't see any anything immoral about it.

 

I’m not even a real owner operator. I’m leased to a carrier you know.

 

But the other side doesn’t matter because that’s a business negotiation that you’re not involved in at all and it’s not really any of your business.