Hotshot Connect Forum :: Rag 11/13

LBZ

Who does this guy think he is? Look at what he is willing to pay for an enclosed haul as well as his comments. I took his name & number off of the listing, but it is on Central this morning...Kinda hoping this dealer gets hung with it! Twisted Evil

IL
glen ellyn

(Chicago - Naperville
- Joliet)
map 60137
route map NJ
linden

(New York - Northern
New Jersey - Long
Island)
map 07036
1966 superformance
gt40 – must be
delivered by 11/17 @
5pm, no excuses or
no pay, encl
$500 cod
815 mi ($0.61/mi)
M-F10:30-7:30/Sat9-6 CST
rating: 100.0%, recv'd: 14, member: 08/06 11/14/08
11/12/08

Tom Cobb · Site Admin

I would leave it and hope everybody has the sense to leave it sitting. That is absurd. He thinks he can get away without paying whether it is late or not is pure BS.

LBZ

Sounds to me as though he is already trying to get out of his responsibility. I noticed later in the day a broker had it paying $50 more or something... just sounds screwy.

I can't haul enclosed anyway, but have never seen anyone post a comment that stupid before.

Thinking it is going to be an easy find for a daily Rag for any of us to post...Saw two cars going coast to coast for $.09(but that is for each one Wink

) & been hearing some freight brokers are throwing out some pretty wild stuff in the past few days as well.

Tom Cobb · Site Admin

I hope you made a typo on that price. $.09??? Maybe $.90.

LBZ

lol $.90 would have been nice & probably good enough to go over to the brag section. Most cars going that far are in the $.24-$.37 range, though there are exceptions where a few are better in that mileage range.

Tom Cobb · Site Admin

Those rates are absurd.

LBZ

There is another out of FL always posting dirt cheap rates...back when fuel was $4.70 he was paying in the $.26-$.28 range on single units nowhere near a lane. Today on 11/14 he is posting $.18 ... Not sure who I am more irritated with, Him or the idiots picking them up. Twisted Evil

But I kind of wonder with as many as he posts if he doesn't post a lot of fakes to drive rates down for the one or two real vehicles he has to ship???

Postings are under Sanford Auto Mall out of Orlando.

Tom Cobb · Site Admin

I wouldn't haul anything for someone named Sanford. LOL. Remember the TV show. Samford and Sons?

bth9461

I hope some of the guys looking to get in are reading this. This is getting tuff, they have us by the balls right now. I wish I could just park the truck. Picking up 2 cars in NH going back to MI $370 and $400 for about 1000 miles after both are delivered. I got $1700 on 950 miles coming out with a direct customer. I really need to add that upper deck to get a 3rd car, almost no LTL's availble.

Cash is tight these days.

When I get back I have another Flat load waiting $2200 on 1000 miles 4 stopper NY/CT/VT/VT but the return load will suck I am sure. All of my out going freight has been with direct customers the past 3 weeks and next week to. Heading for SD next week. 4 weeks ago my out going freight was with 2 of my premium Brokers (non-posted loads) for out going, so my out going rates have not been bad, but almost all the return rates have been low.

It is almost like you need to charge a rate based on no return freight. I want to be fair about this, but what do you do when the return freight keeps dropping or is not even there. Do you go back and tell your customer $3/4 PM planning to run empty back? Hey they like me, but do they really Love me?

Brian

Tom Cobb · Site Admin

They will find someone who will haul it for less. I guess the answer is to find some direct customers along the primary lanes you are running.

This mess will get much worse and the only ones that will survive are the ones who can haul and not undercut everybody else just for the load. Those undercutting are losing their butt and won't stay long.

bth9461

You got to hang in there but it is not easy, the market is the market. I think those that make it will get stronger because of this, but it is going to get worse, before it gets better.

One thing I plan to do is start going through all my old BOL's, looking for my old loads in certain area's making a contact list by state. It can't hurt to call and see if a old customer needs some trucking, even if it does not go back to MI, might have to stay out longer, and triangulated back to my base area. I plan to run more miles to lower fixed overhead per mile, work harder, to generate net income dollars.

Brian

Tom Cobb · Site Admin

That sounds like a good plan.