When you know your hauling cheap.....

Did they want you to "tarp" the chickens?

 

You flatbedders aren't the only ones with a good laugh during the day...


Some of these ice box rates are past silly.

 

I thought the same thing

 

Here's another high dollar ld. I called on for Monday.
Northern Ms. going to Tulsa. 18 thounds pounds. Ok. 24' l 10' 6" w then 14' tall on the ground. Plus you need to tarp the control box.
So on my setup it will put me right at 16'.
I tell the broker I would need a pole the whole rte. He's like Huh?
So I say let me do some figuring and I will get back to you, but 2200.00 is not going to cut it.
So I figure escort all the way. Tarp fee and permits, plus my base rate.. Oh also you need a rte. survey in Ms. over 15' 7"

I call him up and say here is the rate I can do it for. 5450.00
He flips, says no way.
So I break it down some for him. First I tell him the mileage of 495 is way short.
Need rte. survey, high pole and will probalby take 2 days total..
This guy had no clue about moving oversize lds.
I see it's still listed on the internet load board.
I told him if you get somebody to do it that low, the driver was nuts and did not have a clue on the costs.
At least that's the way I see it..

 

when i was in new york. there were TONS of loads going to cali. average rate was $900. miles was 2700. ALL were oversized.

for every $2 load. there's 20 .50 cent loads. 100 .30cent loads.

everywhere i've been the past 2 months. have mostly been 30 to 50 cents loads.

you all talk about bouncing cross country. i'm trying to go home to salt lake. my choices are to bounce 268 miles for a full gross load of lumber that pays $500 to home. or bounce 300 miles for a 10,000 pound load that pays $1000 to home. same miles on both loads. the better load is a little out of route more then the other load. for going home. OR i can just pack a load of air for the cost of fuel.

i've only seen one great (sorta) paying load. that broker figured out deadhead from salt lake to pick it up. and deadhead from delivery back to salt lake. cuz colorado is a joke for freight. the load was only 375 miles. but paid $2000. total trip would have been around 1000 miles.

 

what is the deal with miles on loadboards anyways ? with the technology available they can't have it figure the miles correctly ? Why do they allow the brokers to post whatever they want for miles ? I saw one today on Member's Edge. On my android phone it actually said "air miles" 700 from Salt Lake City to Seattle. It's 840 on google. Should've quoted them $100/mile, tell them I assumed they wanted it flown since they posted air miles.

I double checked it on my laptop and it did not say "air miles" on my browser, but it looked like they intentionally mispelled salt lake city, which I assume is the trick which allows them to enter incorrect miles. What this tells me is they are intentionally looking for careless carriers who do not check the miles or may be a little slow between the ears. Wow, what a great service you are providing the shipper by marketing their loads to the worst carriers possible.

 

Chains and binders or straps and edge protectors?

 

Took me 15 minutes of staring into a mirror, could not find stupid written on my face anywhere. And what's this back haul stuff anyway? If I wanted to be there, I would not have left. An empty trailer makes me no money. If I needed to be abused, I would call my Ex Wife. You want it moved, call me.