Tobytob |
02-04-2011 12:19 PM |
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Originally Posted by no_worries
(Post 493218)
Some guys are getting CA to The city for those rates year-round...but they're very few; working for small wholesalers generally. The great majority of produce is bought by the big boys and they don't pay those rates year-round...they know they don't have to. Besides, CA to NY is pretty much the highest priced lane you'll find and that's not the lane you're talking about. Surely you don't thing West Coast to Memphis is going to pay anywhere near as much as NYC, even on a per mile basis. Several months out of the year, you can throw a dart and hit $3/mile from CA to WA; January isn't one of them and THIS January in particular has been slow for freight out of CA. By the same token, eastbound freight out of the NW is almost always significantly less than out of CA; there are a few exceptions but they are short and, again, not in January. Apples are probably the highest tonnage product shipped out of the NW and I know some muckety-mucks at some of the biggest shippers. They don't pay anywhere near $3/mile ever and certainly not $2/mile year-round. I also know several brokers...not guys I haul for, just friends. If they were bidding $3 mile on regular lanes year-round, they'd be out of business.
Bottom line, the numbers your boss gave you pretty much match mine. Sounds like they have you pulling spot market freight and not direct. Nobody pulling standard van/reefer/flat is averaging $3/mile and I'll bet very few with 1000+ average length of haul are averaging $2/mile.
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This is my point exactly, Companies will pay what they want instead of Trucking companies charging what right. I don"t see anyone telling the electrician or plumber how much they will pay him for a job. Trucking is the only industry where Companies settle for what they can get. I don"t understand it. I'm not saying that these loads back to memphis or the middle of the country pay the same as the east coast freight, but lets be sensible here. If you can get any $8G to Hunts point and $9500 to boston market and $7G to MD,then why shouldn't I believe you are @least getting $3500 to Memphis. Come On. Common sense tell you that.
These big Companies are paying, just ask the guys running up and down the road in the Big shinny KW/Pete's with stainless steel trailers and all the chicken lights. If you can catch them, ask what kind of rates they're getting, I bet s/he wont even move the truck for less than $2.25 a mile (this is a cheap rate to them) and it better be going to a place where s/he can get a good reload. I really don't care what time of year it is and where its coming from. If you want it you should pay for it. Simple as that.
I could understand the rates dropping in the summer because the weather is nice and roads are generally great in some places, but to send a driver up into Northwest to get a load and now s/he has to fight the road conditions all the way back across should equal more money. Simple as that. (The plumber runs into a problem when fixing your pipes, guess what he charges you for it.) If it takes longer he charges you for it. This is my thought process... You pay for a good service, even with competition..
Fuel is almost $4 a gallon and rates are $1.50, LMAO COME ON. Look, If a one can't survive on those rates, what makes you think a guy with 100 trucks is going to survive. Operating cost are thru the roof, now a days. All I'm saying is Be smart about this No way Companies are surviving like that. The # just don't add up..
I'm not saying that I don't agree with you guys, everyone here has a valid point, I'm just stating the fact that something has to change. If we want this industry to prosper we have to take it back. Stop letting the middleman dictate you lively hood. What other business do you know of where People who don't do the work dictate the money the entrepreneur can receive. It's not right!!!
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