Under Cut the Carrier

I'd tell Joe to pay me $700 and I'll do one a day till hell freezes over>provided the ship and rec times are good AND that I am paid in a timely fashion.
I'd hang up on Apex freight as I won't work for $1.15 a mile. Does freight pay $3.00 a mile from Dallas to NJ to balance the round? Not likely.

Just my thoughts.

 

And exactly what would you do if you found out who the other carrier is? Why would you hold a truck for a day and a half for $1.28? It appears to me that you haven't gotten your feet wet in this industry yet with the questioning that you have. It is called free market enterprise, welcome to the world of trucking. $1.28 per mile is running at a loss, and you are worrying about who hauled the load? You should be worrying about what you are going to do long term. The rates from that area have never been productive. Your only recourse is TONU, but if you were notified before you went to the shipper then that isn't even going to work out for you. IF another carrier did haul the load, and let's say they hauled it for $0.74 per mile, what are you going to do about that? Answer, nothing. You should have learned the industry before you got tangled up in it.

 

I would deadhead home before I`d haul anything for $1.28 per mile...well maybe a load of half naked cheerleaders would be ok.

 

A cheap freight hauler worried about someone under cutting their rates

 

hahahaha my thoughts exactly. It's not rocket science. Fuel-.80/mi o/o pay .60/mi which is cheap in my book. That's already 1.40/mi without all the other expenses included. Why do you guys haul that cheap stuff and then get butt hurt when you lose the load???? SMH

 

Unless you have a contract specifying something different, you have no recourse in this situation. Standard industry practice would dictate TONU is due only once you have sent a truck to pick up a load. The best you can do is learn from the situation, and don't do business with the company in the future.

 

seems to me as though he should be thanking the other carrier.