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Originally Posted by solo379
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Originally Posted by lowrange
Really, is anyone anywhere talking about how to make "good money" running cheaply?
Actually there are plenty! :P
It's all the 90cpm+fsc companies, and some more. The funny part is, that they could make a "good money" if the volume is there, and they don't mind to spend their lives in the truck. :roll:
There are also some "independent" who sees only gross, and get blinded by it.
"Cash flow mirage" Those are bound to fail no matter how hard they try. :sad:
There are all kind of "business people" on the road, but if statistics didn't lie, only 10% will succeed... :roll:
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I still don't see any rookies preaching the virtues of "cheap freight" to the veteran gods of trucking. :P All those guys running for 90cpm + fsc (I'm not doing all that better myself, if you factor in my added costs) would happily make more if they knew how (given that not everyone wants to run on his own authority, hustle customers...).
Sounds to me like this whole thread is a backhanded slap at NotSteve. And, if that's the case, why not call out NotSteve directly instead of doing it like this?
Steve, FTR, I haven't followed your experiences with GMAN or whatever else you may or not be saying on this board about freight rates. Myself, I just don't like it when guys take it as a personal matter that shippers and brokers offer cheap freight- just don't take it! At Landstar, there would be full truckloads paying the BCO 60cpm all in. It was shocking, it was exasperating when I was having trouble finding something, but it was their right to post that #@% and it was my right to throw up and keep looking. :lol:
As a consumer, I'm all the time looking for deals. This three day weekend, thanks to William Shatner, I'm staying in a pretty nice motel in Dallas for $35 + tax per night. Is it fair? Can they continue to operate with rates like that? Don't I have feelings for the owners of the motel? No! They're covering their variable costs with an otherwise empty room and they have to make their profits on people paying the full rate some other time. It isn't hard, it's supply and demand. My gripe is with the people who gripe because they want to buy stuff cheaply but take it personal when someone offers them a lowball price for
their services. Where's the sense of fairness? What these people are doing is asking for all the rules to be changed in their favor- when they shop, they want cutthroat bottom dollar prices; when they 'sell' their services, they they get offended if the market rate is less than profitable even when the supply of trucks far outstrips the available freight. Do we believe in free markets or don't we? If we do, deal with it- the good and the bad. If we don't, and this is the only time I'll allow myself to say this, go to Russia! :lol: