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Originally Posted by Windwalker
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Originally Posted by sup
Sorry, i just have to rant real quick about these #######brokers and them #### drivers taking these cheap ##### loads out of here. I'm sitting since 2 days, but i will not!!!! take loads hardly paying fuel money.800 miles paying $656, another one 575 miles paying 375. What's wrong with these ppl????Doesn't the drivers understand they are just hurting themselves if they takes these cheap ass loads????
As O/O, we are fighting a losing battle with freight rates. We can leave the freight right there on the dock, but along somes a company like Roehl or TMC, and in order to get a truck moved into higher paying freight lanes, they will take the cheap load rather than pay for ALL the expenses of getting their truck out of there. Virtually every O/O in the country will leave it there, but SMX will load it on and the brokers are happy. Until you can get the bigger companies to leave it behind, you won't do anything about it.
Windwalker, I think some of the problem is with the larger carriers, but there is just as much of a problem with the owner operators who are willing to haul for anything rather than deadheading out of a bad area. I think the problem is that the owner operators are running too cheap and can't afford the fuel to deadhead because they are not making enough on their regular run. Owner operators are leased to carriers and they will often succumb to pressure to not run empty. We can blame the larger carriers, but most of them have a high percentage of owner operators running under them. If an owner operator refuses to haul a cheap load, then they will sometimes be threatened with going to the bottom of the dispatch list or having their dispatcher tell them that is all that is available. Rather than sit, they capitulate and take the load. I have known of owner operators who are terrified of sitting for a day or two in order to get a decent paying load. They would prefer to take anything that is offered just to keep moving. That is not the best way to survive this business. It may provide some interim cash flow, but cash flow without profit is a recipe for disaster. Unless you have a profit, you won't be able to survive in this business. Perhaps the main problem is that you have too many owner operators who know nothing about running a business or what their operating costs run. Until we can better educate those who decide to become an owner operator, I think this cycle will continue.