[tblount]

Originally Posted by redytrk

If you think "load Opportunities" are a real problem right now just wait until run counts are up to historical highs. C-Link will be going off every 5 min, eliminating any chance of rest.

The overall health of the economy is pretty bad right now and isn't likely to get better soon. This has a direct and profound effect on the transport industry. The count won't go up unless several competitors disappear.

[nightcreacher]

Originally Posted by tblount

I guess you don't know you can ask for more money to take a load... and if the load is going to an isolated area that you are doomed to deadhead out of, you'll probably get it. I recently met a driver at a pickup and his delivery was 100 miles closer than mine... he said he was at home and didn't want to take a load and they paid him $1,250 and I got almost $700. Same size truck, same 55 gallon barrels of paint although he did pickup about 6 more than me.

If you get a low offer .... say $1 a mile ... and you know your fuel will be 50 cents per mile.... will you run your truck for 50 cents per mile including your pay? You could drive for any major trucking company in THEIR truck and make that much.

There is a reason that companies that are strictly owner operator based make the most profit.... there is no way they can lease (or buy) a truck and pay a driver for under about a dollar a mile.

We frequently haul freight for 70 cents and less per mile after fuel is paid. Maybe if you only look at loaded miles you think you are doing better but in reality you have at least 1 mile deadhead for every 3 loaded miles you drive.

Guess your new to trucking.If we are talking paint,your load was discounted and his wasnt,just depends on paying party.There is no way that FECC is going to raise the rate that much.Figure this,you got $500 which means FECC charged about 850 to the customer,you really think they are going to give $400 out of their pocket to have that load hauled.How about yours being a C load and the other persons an D load,there your 750 difference.

Your going to have to show me how to ask for more money in this new system,where in the c-link does it say i cant do for that price,its either yes or no,and as far as companies that only have owner opps,guess you have never been with a company that has owner opps and company trucks,company trucks get the gravy.Yes most of us run 30% dead head,but i guarantee you I make more money at that dead head rate than if i lease my truck to a truck load carrier.

[ATeam]

Originally Posted by nightcreacher

Your going to have to show me how to ask for more money in this new system,where in the c-link does it say i cant do for that price,its either yes or no,....

Diane and I ask for more money under the new system the same way we did under the old. If a load offer is priced at an unprofitable level, we decline the load. Then we send a free-form message with the run number saying, "Will accept run #xxxxxxxx if pay is changed to $x,xxx.xx." The price is determined by our known cost per mile plus the profit margin we require to move the truck.

Making counteroffers in this straightforward, no-games way via Qualcomm communicates the necessary information and respects dispatcher time. Dispatchers do not take it personally when we counteroffer. We do not take it personally when dispatch says no or does not respond to our counteroffer (which is the same as saying no).

[tblount]

Originally Posted by nightcreacher

Guess your new to trucking.

That's a round about way of saying you think I'm stupid.

If we are talking paint,your load was discounted and his wasnt,just depends on paying party.There is no way that FECC is going to raise the rate that much.

The driver told me they offered him 800 and he told them he would take it for $1,250 ... he said they agreed and he was there picking up the load and I believe him.

There are many times the company will reduce their profit or even take a loss to keep a good customer satisfied. BASF is a very good CC customer.

Your going to have to show me how to ask for more money .

Nahh... you think I'm stupid. I'll let you figure that out for yourself. ...or not.... when we are both sitting in the same location and you refuse a load and I get it for a couple hundred more than the offer I'll figure out how to spend the money I made while you are still sitting and waiting on a load the next day.