Why ,and How this rate

Taking the load for that rate isnt directly the broker's fault, no... but offering garbage when you can pay a reasonable rate is a pretty crappy move and definitely won't make a good name for yourself over time. To each his own I suppose..

 

What post are you reading that I said it was the brokers fault? And you wonder why drivers can't stand dealing with you guys

 

I don't wonder.... 75 percent of the "brokers" out there are idiots or scumbags or both.

 

It's basic negotiation 101... I am going make money on a load. I will try to make the most that I can, but I won't offer an amount that is asinine either. But if the carrier takes my first offer, thats on them.

 

Like I said... to each his own...

 

Well.......uh..........ah, forget it.

 

I'm not an o/o but if rates are this bad, can't you haul for a company to keep you moving to certain "sweet spots" and still keep your liberty to haul from load board when you find a good one?

 

That's not typically how it works at any company. Most o/o are leased on at a company to help cover loads for direct contract customers. Those are the bread and butter. What pays the bills. Steady and predictable.

Load boards are just garbage for a company like that or if there is any gold to be made off the load boards they don't have time for it due to contract obligations. Some companies have a mix of contract and spot. Typically for them spot is just garbage back haul freight so, again, they can get back to the good contract stuff.

Then there is pure spot carrier. Everyone else's garbage is our bread and butter. We live and die by the sword. Sink or swim. More often than not the rates are just terrible. But you figure out where to go or not and follow the freight, or you sit it out when it's weak, or you continue to work cheaply. When it's good it's good. When it's bad it's real bad. It never comes easy regardless.

 

Thanks man