What tools do you use to get a good rate?

How do you get a good rate? do you use a certain tool that tells you how much a good rate is? or how do you determine how much the rate should be?

 

Usually a sledgehammer and a really big prybar!!!

 

This is a thread for @Ruthless.

1. Make a good name for yourself. The higher end people will pay better rates for superior service.

 

referencing your other thread of the same name: "so that the broker and trucker make money...."
it doesn't matter if the other party makes money. if they do: good for them! otherwise, ####em.

tools: experience is the best tool. tells you how much of a chore the task is; how long it will take to accomplish the task; what position performing that task will leave you in; what you have gotten for performing the task previously for either the same or another customer.

If you're booking public load board freight and looking for a ''app'' to make it easier to tell if you're making money or getting ####ed..... you're getting ####ed. There's just too much more to the situation than "$2.00 a mile is great freight!''

 

Sure for tql lol

 

Find shippers. Best tool ever!. Don't use brokers.

 

And you may take that to the bank, and cash it. 'Tis good.

 

I show my legs to the agents.

 

Darn it, boy!

 

I use my brain.