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Well true to form the Load 1 cheer leading squad trashed the OP. And since Chef was so kind as to post his rate per loaded mile could someone post the percentage split between Load 1 and their contractors so I could get a good idea of what Load 1 is charging their customers. Might come in handy...

Well this is going to be an interesting thread. Should take very little time till the Load 1 cheer leading squad is here telling charlie how it was all his fault for being told to leave, that there is no forced dispatch and all the loads pay great so why would charlie even turn one down.

It is not the shippers, it is the carriers that need to pay a fair rate.

Yea but Bolt, Fedex and Panther can do Canada and their all offering rates in the .50 to .65cpm range to get out of there. I think all these carriers are getting good rates, it is just that Load 1 pays you fairly while these other carriers are giving their vanners a shaftin.

Remember when Fedex van drivers could make $1.20 to $1.40 per mile all the time on a percentage contract. Now there on a fixed rate of .85 cpm, just a little above Panthers rate. Wonder why that is.

Then how is it that Load 1 can pay over a buck a mile and the large branded carriers can only get enough to pay .50 or .60 cpm? I think it is because these large branded carriers know that if they leave their cargo vans set a day or two they will take a cheap rate load. And the carrier pockets...

Since Bolt Express offers these same rates or lower I guess the same thing could be said about them.

Your right and that is a business decision you have to make. My question was why would someone say in one post to put on your big boy pants and make this decision regardless of company policy and then three posts later say you should be reprimanded for making that decision.

So now your saying that these drivers should be reprimanded for doing what you said they should do in your previous post, "no one makes you say yes nor should you let company polices get in the way of running your business". So which is it?

I think it was about a year or so ago that some panther drivers with their big boy pants on and making their own business decisions had their contracts terminated. I believe panther referred to their business decisions as cherry picking.

I understand what you are saying but the negotiating is between the shipper and carrier, broker or agent. If these parties were not so busy driving the rates into the ground just to get the freight they would not have to offer cheap rates to the O/O. I operate a van with my own authority, deal...

For that to be true the owner, driver, operator and dispatcher would have to be the ones negotiating rates with shippers. There not. The carriers and brokers are the ones negotiating the rates and they are the ones responsible for cheap freight. One of two things is happening here. The carrier...

Most on here are "contracted to a carrier" but are treated by the carrier as employees.

When you look at it from a carriers point of view thats the way it should be. Its a lot easier to replace a single O/O truck than a fleet owner with 20 or 30 trucks. Its just good business to your biggest customers (fleet owners) happy first.

Yes they are required to have operating authority and all they need to get it is a $300,000 primary liability policy and at least $5,000 cargo ins. policy. It is an operating authority for vehicles 10,000 lbs and under and very easy to get and really not that expensive.

My formula is a little different. I use a base of $1.30 a gallon and add 1% for every 10 cent increase. $3.60 a gallon is 23% times my base rate comes out to 43 cents per mile. This applies to the miles I bill the shipper, I do a run and bill the shipper for 500 miles the fsc is $215.00 for that...

This week I am charging 43 cpm fsc, 24 cpm is very low. And this is for my van. If your getting less than 24cpm fsc your getting hosed big time.

I have been expediting since 2000, with my own authority since 2006 and I rarely spend more than 1 night away from home. Its also very rare for me to be gone on weekends. Dont know where you got the idea you have to be gone from home for weeks at a time to be expediting but its completely wrong.

I run window vans and the main reason is that in Pa. a cargo van is classified as a truck and plates are $198 a year but a window van is classified as a station wagon with standard passenger car plates that cost $36 a year.

Simple, just increase the rate you charge your customers to pay for your increased expenses. I increase my rate every Jan. 1st.