What is going on with today's rates?

Let it sit there and they will pay. Unless someone "will work for fuel".

 

tell them they are the ones commiting highway robbery by taking 30% for making a phone call

 

now that seems to be a problem all over, and the reason its a problem is that thee are still to many out there that will haul it for the cheaper rate.

there has been a lot that have lost there trucks because they insist on hauling for the cheaper rate but there is a lot still out there thatare still learning , you just cant do it sooner or later it will come around and bite you.

in this business it is not enough to make fuel money you have to make a profit or you wont be here long and it is really sad when you see all these drivers losing there trucks because they just made fuel money and we all suffer for it .

but that is the way it is till all those experts quit or lose there truck it wont get any better just to many trucks.

but when things get tough the tough get going we can outlast them.

best of luck to all.---southernpride.---

 

I certainly see nothing wrong with asking for $2/mile. If they're as desperate as they're saying, they'll pay or move it themselves and see how they like barely paying for fuel. I was talking to a guy today who's been in the industry for several years and he told me that thousands of owner-ops are going out of business because the freight rates keep falling. I told him that someone has to move it and there just aren't enough idiot JB & Swifty drivers out there to do it.

 

I'm seeing rates on Internet Truckstop for some loads well under a dollar a mile. I'll deadhead 1st to somewhere that pays better before I bottom feed and take those loads. You can bet on that!

 

I don't know what's wrong with these people... My broker called me last week with a load from Atlanta to California for $3476 + $521 F/S. I told them I would let them know but, I really thought that was too cheap. The broker called me back in about 30 minutes and said never mind someone else (a flatbed co. in Louisville,KY) just took (bid) the load for $1600 less. That's only $2397 total for over 2200 miles. What makes it even worse is this was an oversized /overwidth load needing permits.

 

For the life of me, I don't see the logic....

 

The one's with 800#'s hate me because I've been pretty bored the last couple days so I call them several times asking about the rate and laughing.

For what it's worth I've got both accounts for Internet Truckstop. One trucking companies see and the brokers side also. The brokers can't see what other brokers have posted for a rate. (on the ones that rarely actually post a rate) so if anyone wonders why one guy posts his $100 less than the other guy, it's because he doesn't know what others are offering.

You gave the best advise though, let it sit. My dad called about a load that only wanted to pay like $300, which was only like $1 per mile. So he said he'd take it but was only going to haul it $300 worth and wanted to know who was going to take it the rest of the way. The broker didn't find it funny.

 

It is strictly a supply/demand issue. The reason they offered only $1.15 is because they knew full well that they were ballpark with offering that rate in the first place, going off of whate they had seen other carriers doing the same work for. Understand, the rates offered, have absolutley nothing to do with the rate you need or want, but everything to do with the best combo of that broker/shipper moving the load and making the most money in doing so.

If loads were moving across the country right now for .50 cents/mile, you can bet your cheeks that there would be a broker looking for a carrier to haul it for .45 cents.

Trust me, I think some of these rates are total shiet, but that is how capitolism works. On the converse side, when all these bottom feeder carriers go titts up and the ecomomy rebounds (If this country dumps the democrats anyways) the survivors will be in a far better position to dictate rates and prosper.

The pendolum will always swing.