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    Default Three Brilliant Ideas

    1. The federal government should start a program to buy all the vacant auto dealerships and convert them in to truck parking areas.

    2. Somebody should invent eload. An auction site to connect shippers directly to carriers. The shipper could post their loads, be it 1 or 1,000, for carriers to bid on directly. Get the brokers out of it entirely, make the process completely transparent.

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    4. Volvo should sell Mack Trucks to a U.S. based consortium of investors and Mack Truck employees who could then restore the Mack brand to it's once legendary stature, especially in the dump truck & heavy haul markets.

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    someone should convince Cat to keep making truck engines
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    Quote Originally Posted by Fredog View Post
    someone should convince Cat to keep making truck engines
    They are. Just under International's name.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rev.Vassago View Post
    They are. Just under International's name.

    they are mutts, I want a pure-bred
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    Quote Originally Posted by LightsChromeHorsepower View Post
    1. The federal government should start a program to buy all the vacant auto dealerships and convert them in to truck parking areas.
    Please, no more federal government programs for a while.

    2. Somebody should invent eload. An auction site to connect shippers directly to carriers. The shipper could post their loads, be it 1 or 1,000, for carriers to bid on directly. Get the brokers out of it entirely, make the process completely transparent.
    I agree, that would be interesting.

    3. This site needs to petition Big Diesel and Steve Booth to rejoin us. Kevin just isn't that entertaining & people just seem to ignore me when I try to stir up sh*t.
    I liked them both, I don't know all the details but they both seemed to wig out for some reason. You can't take this internet stuff too seriously. It's not real.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Fredog View Post
    someone should convince Cat to keep making truck engines
    They don't need to, go get yourself a B model Cat, crank it up to 900 hp and go have some fun.
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    Quote Originally Posted by RostyC View Post
    They don't need to, go get yourself a B model Cat, crank it up to 900 hp and go have some fun.
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    Quote Originally Posted by LightsChromeHorsepower View Post
    3. This site needs to petition Big Diesel and Steve Booth to rejoin us. Kevin just isn't that entertaining & people just seem to ignore me when I try to stir up sh*t.
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    Quote Originally Posted by LightsChromeHorsepower View Post

    2. Somebody should invent eload. An auction site to connect shippers directly to carriers. The shipper could post their loads, be it 1 or 1,000, for carriers to bid on directly. Get the brokers out of it entirely, make the process completely transparent.
    What would stop a carrier like Landstar or Schneider from coming in, bidding on all the loads, and rebrokering them out?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rev.Vassago View Post
    What would stop a carrier like Landstar or Schneider from coming in, bidding on all the loads, and rebrokering them out?
    Or Swift, or Werner, or J B Hunt, or Stevens Transport, or Covenant, or U S Express, or....
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rev.Vassago View Post
    What would stop a carrier like Landstar or Schneider from coming in, bidding on all the loads, and rebrokering them out?
    Nothing, just like nothing would stop you from doing the same.

    It would just make the process transparent. You would know who won the bid and you could tell how much they were skimming when they tried to broker it out.
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    Quote Originally Posted by LightsChromeHorsepower View Post
    Nothing, just like nothing would stop you from doing the same.

    It would just make the process transparent. You would know who won the bid and you could tell how much they were skimming when they tried to broker it out.
    And by the time you figured out all that information, the load will already be gone. Hell, most times I'm booking a load, I barely have time to confirm the mileage. Transparency is a ruse to keep motor carriers from having to worry about knowing what they are willing to haul a load for. It will do nothing to increase rates.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rev.Vassago View Post
    And by the time you figured out all that information, the load will already be gone. Hell, most times I'm booking a load, I barely have time to confirm the mileage. Transparency is a ruse to keep motor carriers from having to worry about knowing what they are willing to haul a load for. It will do nothing to increase rates.
    1. C'mon, I know your mind works faster than that.

    2. Transparency is a virtue (at least to those of us lacking sufficient powers of deviousness) in business, government and interpersonal relationships.

    3. It may not increase rates, it may even decrease them. It would bring about greater economic efficiency, something that should be desired by all the free-market types. Let the low cost producer prevail!
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    Quote Originally Posted by LightsChromeHorsepower View Post

    2. Somebody should invent eload. An auction site to connect shippers directly to carriers. The shipper could post their loads, be it 1 or 1,000, for carriers to bid on directly. Get the brokers out of it entirely, make the process completely transparent.
    There are many of these already. They all manage to get the carriers to bid lower and lower for the freight.
    It's just like when they have "live" RFQ's. The bid rate starts high,by the time it's over the rate is in the toliet.
    The only thing transparent about any of these is the cost that you will do it for.
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    Quote Originally Posted by LightsChromeHorsepower View Post
    1. C'mon, I know your mind works faster than that.

    2. Transparency is a virtue (at least to those of us lacking sufficient powers of deviousness) in business, government and interpersonal relationships.

    3. It may not increase rates, it may even decrease them. It would bring about greater economic efficiency, something that should be desired by all the free-market types. Let the low cost producer prevail!
    Why on earth would you want to bring about artificial economic efficiency?
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    Quote Originally Posted by chris1 View Post
    There are many of these already. They all manage to get the carriers to bid lower and lower for the freight.
    It's just like when they have "live" RFQ's. The bid rate starts high,by the time it's over the rate is in the toliet.
    The only thing transparent about any of these is the cost that you will do it for.
    ok, educate me please.
    I found this one online. FreightRFQ.com
    Can you give me a general overview of how the process works. I might sign up for this one just to see what it's all about, but I'd like to have a little information before I do.
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    Quote Originally Posted by RostyC View Post
    ok, educate me please.
    I found this one online. FreightRFQ.com
    Can you give me a general overview of how the process works. I might sign up for this one just to see what it's all about, but I'd like to have a little information before I do.
    That is just one of hundreds of "load boards" Same thing different name.Pay a fee or percentage to participate.
    Online RFQ's are by invite only to qualified carriers.(in some cases open to brokers) They may have 100's of lanes and 1000's of loads per month/quarter. You have a time period to review everything and the "rate war" lasts one day. You see where your standing is as the bid progresses. Bids go by price and commitment. Very hard for a single or few trucks to compete in it.
    Some RFQ's allow a percentage of a lane or percentage of the total to be brokered. Remember a common carrier has the right to use substituted service. Thats why most state that the bid is under contract authority.
    In closed systems a shipper may "offer" loads to multiple carriers or tender a load to a certain carrier. Again the carrier has to be qualified to be in the system. No DOT rating,no qualification.
    For a shipper to use a carrier direct loading ("e-load") is very time consuming and not pratical at all. Fielding multiple calls,wide range of rates,availibilty,qualification,ect is not worth the time involved.
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