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Originally Posted by phoneman
If you are competing against company drivers for freight(which most likely you are), that is where you have to watch out. The percentage means nothing. Percentage of what? If they are feeding company drivers the gravy, 90% won't help you.
Like I said, all the good paying dedicated accounts they lock the contractors out of by creating a “dedicated” fleet of company only trucks for those accounts. Interstate Distributors has stuff that averages in the $3 per mile range, but we never saw any of it in the year we contracted with them. We were only given loads from the general pool of cheap freight and then expected to do insanely unprofitable things. Besides not paying us on time, the last straw for me was when they tried to get us to deadhead from Nichols, NY 198 miles into Jersey City to get a load that we knew would probably pay $.80 a mile. It was a means to an end at the time, but I’ll NEVER contract myself like that again to another company. They pawn off all the cheap crap on you while keeping the best stuff for their trucks and then threaten you when you tell them you won’t accept a load. It’s a real nightmare.