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As for your example above.... work on your negotiating skills, and the broker is allowed to make money...
I agree with "Beattle-brow's". The fsc breakout works great if you are leased to a company....like I am. When your running under your own authority, like "BD", "Not-Steve" and a couple others here, then the total per mile rate is far more important, than a breakdown of the FSC. Originally Posted by BigDiesel
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As I have stated and hoohah reiterated, a FSC is great for a leased O/O, but for us independants it is a moot point. Originally Posted by rank
Not necessarily. Say I move one load for a broker that is paying me $1400. With rate disclosure on the BOL, it may be seen that the shipper is paying $1,000 + $750 FSC.
As for your example above.... work on your negotiating skills, and the broker is allowed to make money...
That is why knowing what it cost's to operate the truck is so important. Not just where fuel, plates, insurance and maintanence are concerned...but driver wages..meals..the whole nine yards.
Even as an O/O leased to a company...I figure everything "In", to establish my cost to operate..and turn down loads that don't pay cost plus.