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About 98% of what is on the load boards.
Still working on my connections. I do get calls - just rarely in the right place at the right time. I'm fortunate to have one contact that keeps me on the road at a decent rate and I just have to fill in the blanks.
I just find it hard to believe that some of these brokers are still trying to move loads for a dollar a mile. I don't care how desperate I get - I'll never pull a load for that.
Driver: Calling about the load you have posted from the Kalamazoo to Timbuktu.
Broker: Yeah, that's a one pick one drop that weighs 43,000 lbs. 1200 miles and pays 1250 to the truck.
Driver: Uh(choke on coffee), did you say 1250?
Broker: Yeah, and that will need to be in Timbuktu in 2 days, but it's one stop and no touch.
Driver: Don't think I can pull it for that rate. Have you guys heard that fuel is 3.39 a gallon? Thanks anyway.
Broker: Wait, what do you think you could do it for?
Driver: I'd need XXXX.XX
Broker: We don't even have that much in it. We'll find someone to move it.
Sure enough, later that day the load is no longer posted.
Exactly...I think Steve said it best that only a small percentage of our nations truckers have even found this board ...even less postOriginally Posted by kblickster
Still a newbie but here's my take on what cheap freight is.....About 98% of what is on the load boards.
Still working on my connections. I do get calls - just rarely in the right place at the right time. I'm fortunate to have one contact that keeps me on the road at a decent rate and I just have to fill in the blanks.
I just find it hard to believe that some of these brokers are still trying to move loads for a dollar a mile. I don't care how desperate I get - I'll never pull a load for that.
Driver: Calling about the load you have posted from the Kalamazoo to Timbuktu.
Broker: Yeah, that's a one pick one drop that weighs 43,000 lbs. 1200 miles and pays 1250 to the truck.
Driver: Uh(choke on coffee), did you say 1250?
Broker: Yeah, and that will need to be in Timbuktu in 2 days, but it's one stop and no touch.
Driver: Don't think I can pull it for that rate. Have you guys heard that fuel is 3.39 a gallon? Thanks anyway.
Broker: Wait, what do you think you could do it for?
Driver: I'd need XXXX.XX
Broker: We don't even have that much in it. We'll find someone to move it.
Sure enough, later that day the load is no longer posted.
I get blasted all the time for taking cheap freight just to have some work, but even i dont go down to a dollar a mile...cuz thats apprx my break even point. I work hard just to get the 1.20 and scour for the leight loads that does make a difference, pulling a 20k load for 1.20 is the same pay to you as pulling a 44k for 1.35 ....n even tho you guys wont run that cheap i have to fight like hell just to get them cuz the boards are full of the ones he just mentioned (sounded like my calls)
Yeah i call back on all those 1.00 loads, to see if they will go up, cuz usually only a couple hundred difference, n sure enough the broker gleefully states we moved it already.......(n i pocketed the 200 extra you wanted pepe...so go suck an egg :-p)
Even tho the anger is misplaced you see why many drivers here hate brokers lol.....blood sucking scumbags lol, but the fact is we take it n many will keep trying to move that 1.00 freight