Mike
Well-Known Member
Not a news article, posting simply because this is a good example of rates being lower because too many truckers that can't negotiate and demand their worth are now in a panic because of the fear stories they read and they are now jumping on whatever load they can find. This shipper knew they were posting a low rate, with the anticipation of negotiations, and instead had truck drivers begging for the load at the listed starting price.
I referenced them as "truck drivers" because that is all they need to be. They have no business mind at all, and no backbone to demand their worth in the industry.
These types of people are the ones you see on the various Facebook groups crying about how the brokers are keeping too much of the rate.
Article snippet below:
Chris Tucker needed to move some hot tubs. It seemed like a good gig for his network of small truckers.
The Winchester, Kentucky-based owner of Full Coverage Freight, a truck brokerage, recently advertised to truck drivers on a load board that it had a shipment of hot tubs headed from Seattle to a small town in the middle of Wisconsin. The rate came out to under $2 a mile, which Tucker thought was low. He expected drivers to haggle with his company to get paid at least $2.50 a mile, or about $1,000 more for the gig.
Instead, his office was slammed with dozens of phone calls and hundreds of texts clamoring for the hot tub job — exactly at the rate advertised.
I referenced them as "truck drivers" because that is all they need to be. They have no business mind at all, and no backbone to demand their worth in the industry.
These types of people are the ones you see on the various Facebook groups crying about how the brokers are keeping too much of the rate.
Article snippet below:
Chris Tucker needed to move some hot tubs. It seemed like a good gig for his network of small truckers.
The Winchester, Kentucky-based owner of Full Coverage Freight, a truck brokerage, recently advertised to truck drivers on a load board that it had a shipment of hot tubs headed from Seattle to a small town in the middle of Wisconsin. The rate came out to under $2 a mile, which Tucker thought was low. He expected drivers to haggle with his company to get paid at least $2.50 a mile, or about $1,000 more for the gig.
Instead, his office was slammed with dozens of phone calls and hundreds of texts clamoring for the hot tub job — exactly at the rate advertised.
A 'Great Purge' is pushing small truckers out of business at an unprecedented rate
The collapse of spot rates and surge in diesel prices is pushing small truckers out of the industry. One broker called it the “Great Purge.”
www.freightwaves.com