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Message:: [QUOTE="m16ty, post: 12169939, member: 176605"]Personally, I’m not looking for cheap. What’s a extra $1,000 to the overall price compared to over $1,000 an hr waiting on a truck? Yes, the customer is charged for us sitting waiting on a truck, it’s in our quote as a condition. I can usually haul the load or I can get others that I trust to haul it, but I’m almost always higher that other quotes they get. Sometimes the customer understands the value of us handling the transportation, even though the quote is higher, but there are some that have to learn the hard way. Even though we do get compensated for waiting on a truck, it still messes with our schedule and can put us in a bind. I’ve got one guy I use sometimes when we can’t move the load. He has a few of his own trucks, but will broker it out also if he doesn’t have the availability. He will often quote me a price and I’ll tell him to add $500 or so. In my opinion, you can’t expect to get a decent hauler just going with market rate, you’ve got to be over and above the market price.[/QUOTE]