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Originally Posted by geomon
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I just through out a number though I do check truckloadrate.com.
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Do you guys that use truckloadrate.com also put your rates back into the system? I'm not sure how they get their rate data but I would think they are only as good as the data coming in to them.
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No I don't add the rates. I think they only go off of big companies. I'm not sure how accurate it is but it seems in line with what I can get out of them (in my short time).
You know I was just talking with my friend. He paid about $200,000 to have his own authority by buying out a couple of businesses. He had authority in I guess 29 states hauling horses. He was telling me that the rates were set by a tariff and he got to charge $1.50 a mile. He had the same problems that people have now with drivers (I actually remember one of his drivers was all whacked out on drugs and went 70mph into the Mass Pike toll booth) but he use to put them up in a hotel. He looked in my truck which is just a cheap fleet truck and was amazed at what they look like now. I asked him about getting direct loads from shippers and the first thing he said is it's hard with one truck.
Of course he hauled horses but he said people would call up and want 5 trucks at once as they wanted all the horses to travel together. Anyway then of course getting people to pay was a big problem. Esepcially in the race horse business where people are either up or down.
I tell you, this guy is 67 years old, has all the money that he needs and still gets up and goes to work. Of course it's his own company so I guess that's not really work. I think a lot of us in the newer generation want everything quicker. I don't want to wait til I'm 67 to have that relaxed look but everything comes in due time I guess.
Hey No_worries do you find when you squeeze these brokers that in the midst of setting everything up they get a call from someone to do it cheaper and cancel? I feel this is unethical. I mean I could get a call after too and get a better load but once I agree then I will stick to it.
No_worries, excuse me for asking but I'm curious about this teaming thing. Though I would never ever do it myself I'm still curious. Did you always team? If I had someone I could trust and get along with (and actually I do and in the future there will be more on him) I would buy a 2nd truck and then have a better inflow of cash. I mean if one truck is down the other one will still be running. I'm just curious on why you team that is if you feel like sharing that.