What is wrong with some people?!?!

Well I feel you and have gotten into this on other threads. But that market has been that soft for years. OK, not THAT soft but in the $1 - $1.25.

Most companies that will take that have had someone else pay the extra needed to haul that freight. If not, then you really do have a problem.

 

Best thing to do is file that broker under the do not call list.

 

Someone hauled it for that cheap before, so now they think it should ALWAYS ship for that rate.

 

Because a large percentage of the industry does not run on a load-to-load business model the fight over cheap freight is meaningless. Not going to bother with the math, we should all understand how averages work.

 

This is one of the reasons I don't run my own authority anymore. Leasing to a good company with their recorces working for you makes a tremendous differance. I've been looking for a good load myself for a week just fooling around on the computer. Called several early this morning and they were either gone, or cheap.
After my people came to work this morning, I had 2 good offers and they ain't cheap! These are loads that never see a "loadboard" outside of the company.
In my experience just running off of "loadboards" in general population now-a-days is a looser 90% of the time. JMO

 

As SHC said the load is that cheap because they no someone will take it. But that load is real cheap. I used to ##### and moan about rates alot untill i tried takeing a few loads at less than what my minimum rate was instead of deadheading and ya know what, my rate per mile increaded for all miles. Now i focus more on the big revenue picture instead of a by the load mentality.

 

That's pretty extreme, I know brokers aren't real good at math. But surely they understand that if fuel costs $0.68/mile. i mean, they may not 'get' that we have a lot of expenses in addition to fuel, but surely they know we have at least 10 cents on top of fuel, right ?? IDK, I think the problem with the world today is nobody takes anybody out back and beats the crap out of them anymore. I mean, a broker posts a rate like that really should expect to be punched in the face repeatedly.

I've been getting offered rates in the $1.30/mile range all day to haul from IL to PA. They keep saying, "I don't have that much in it". Finally, the last one I says, "Well, I DO have that much in it ! I have that much in it before I even make a dime. YOU negotiated the rate with the shipper, so which one of us is going to lose money on this load, ME or YOU ?" I don't think she followed my logic, but at least I said it.