Deregulation Pt.2
I was reading another thread in the new drivers section and it got me to thinking. (uh-oh) When trucking was regulated and guys say they were getting 1.50 mile back then it all sounds good, but didn't most trucks have to deadhead back due to only being able to run certain lanes and pull certain customers freight? If so you really got .75 a mile. Or were you able to trip lease off of other companies to get your truck back?
It seems to me that regulation was not as efficient as what we have now. Maybe some of you "more experienced" (:D) guys can give some info on what it was like from an efficiency point of view compared to what we have today. Also, was there a lot of corruption under regulation? Happy Memorial Day everybody. |
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That right there...the highlited sentence....that is where the term "Backhaul" originated. The trucks were allowed to backhaul freight for those same customers. It was always done at reduced rates, because of the outbound rate being so good...back then. Now....a truck gets shafted on both the headhaul rate and the return load, because of how it was done 40 years ago. :mad::mad::mad: :pissedoff: |
Wow I never thought of that. Government regulation screwing us decades after that regulation no longer exists!
Thanks for the history lesson. |
That's one of the main reason freight rates are so screwed up...especially to places like Vancouver...it's the end of the road, so everything coming out is backhaul...1/2 rate, end of story, doesn't matter what you take out. That's one of the reasons carriers make the trip out there at the rates they do...to help cover the screwing they get coming back.
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I heard my ex-boss tell a customer one time, "there is no such thing as a back-haul, there is a load going one way and another load going the other way"
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Moe, I hope you don't mind but I copied and pasted this for you. I thought it was an interesting post. |
This part of Moe's statement;
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Now "Backhaul Rates" are an accepted business practice by many many "major" and "small" carriers. I like Fredog's "exboss". He has the right idea. |
to bad we cant all start a new trend..... i was looking today on the mercer load board. and i was very interested since our load board says the origin the destination, milage and the pay to truck for every load posted i started searching from here to there etc.... going to canada pays awsome coming out pays crap. going to cali and out of cali seems to pay crap all the way around. unless its going from cali to like portland or somthing and then pays crap coming back into cali. but it seems the best paying freight is 500 miles to 800 miles in the southeast and midwest other than that the rest of the country's rates are FAIL. unless you wait around for that (cherry load) wich hardly never comes. so i really dont know what to think about it all i know we need better rates. i can not even concive how ppl can accept a load paying 1.00 a mile to 1.35 a mile that is just insane but you will be suprised how often i am offered that. im now with a company that knows better than to offer that to me so that makes it easyer on my nerves.
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