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Yeah, I do see that on that page, but that chart is a bit ambiguous. From the same website, under "Types of Operating Authority", comes this: Regulated commodities are defined by the FMCSA as basically all manufactured goods, or non-manufactured goods that are worth money.

Good to know. Thanks for responding! What company do you run for Xiggi? Feel free to PM me if you don't want to post it here.

Just out of curiousity, how are you guys getting insurance so cheap? Do you have 1 million liability and 100k cargo? I'd love to cut my insurance costs down by 65%....

That does seem pretty cheap. Is it insurance they provide at that price? I provide my own insurance, so I don't pay weekly, but if I did it would be about double that. $70/wk. But I don't have qualcomm fees or anything. Some multi-carriers charge a small admin fee any week that you take work...

Trying to understand your point here. Are you saying the large carriers pay your insurance costs for you if you're an O/O for them? As an O/O working in the multi-carrier model, my insurance costs are high, but I wouldn't think they're much different than in the exclusive side. Honestly, any...

I know what it all means. I wrote it. And yes, this is exactly what I meant. I was referring to not discounting/throwing out all the good drivers because of a few bad ones, as was implied by the "a few bad apples" comment.... ...at this point, I feel like you're just trying to bait me into...

The 90% was, as I said, "In my experience" in the paragraph above it that you didn't quote. As for recognizing the potential for ignorance on the multi-carrier side of things, I do. But then, I've never been trying to make the case that said ignorance doesn't exist on both sides of the argument...

Yes, they say that, don't they? They also say "Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater." Both common sayings, yet they're in direct opposition to one another. Only 1 can be right. Or perhaps they're both right, but only in particular circumstances. Either way, they can't both be right in...

My experience has been the opposite of this, with 1 major caveat: Most people don't want to help a new guy AT ALL. It seems like the majority of people think if they snub people asking about expediting, it will keep the business from being saturated. It won't. It'll just stop it from being...

Right there is our disconnect. Not you being a snarky %$#@(although that doesn't help), but the idea that I'm here trying to get the big carriers to encourage or otherwise "help" smaller fleets in any way. I'm not. That's not the nature of competition or capitalism. What I'm doing is ensuring...

That's sort of the problem with this philosophy, though. The "Big Guys" aren't the arbiters of what the industry will support. The market will bear what the market will bear. Being a large company gives you a degree of control in that it allows you to "nudge" things one way or another, but if...

Sure, so what is one to do when you're a cargo van O/O and you can't get on with a good large company you're interested it? We can't just hang it up and call it quits. At least I can't. I have too much invested to just walk away. The answer is, we do what we can to earn a living, utilizing the...

Those two things aren't mutually exclusive, though. As a matter of fact, I'd say they're very likely to be related on some level. Now, I'm not saying you're not right. Larger companies have more access to more loads than do smaller companies(AND more competing drivers). But when people can come...

You know, I normally find some wisdom in what you say, but I'm sorry to say that this statement reeks of bias. Really read what you're saying there. You're saying "regardless", which means even if that is NOT the case, they're bad or some such nonsense. What do you have against small companies...

It still applies. You simply don't tell the second company to bid a lower price than the first one. Most of these smaller companies don't have multiple trucks in the area, so if you're not taking it, they're not bidding it, which means you're not bidding against yourself unless you know you are...

Most carriers who participate in the multi-carrier style don't operate this way, and so this is mostly a fictional scenario that is generally spread by exclusive carriers and their drivers who don't necessarily know better. While I agree that carriers that normally participate in the...

As a cargo van driver, I don't feel like people here who are saying you don't HAVE to leave Laredo for .50/mile are really understanding the plight of myself and other CV drivers. If we work for a company that directly says to us, "Hey, it's REALLY hard for us to get loads out of Laredo, so...

Who do you drive for xiggi? You're in a sprinter, right?

I run a Chevy 2500 with a v8. I average 15 mpg highway when not loaded. Often, CV loads are small, so I doubt most of them effect mileage much, but admittedly I haven't calculated that. If it DOES effect mileage more than I anticipate, then I'm even further away from paying for my fuel with the fsc.

The company I'm currently working with doesn't pay very high fsc rates. I'd need at least 17 cents per mile to cover fuel, and they only pay 10-21% of the total load in fsc. Since this company pays 75 cents per mile flat rate, that makes my maximum fsc 15.75 cents per mile at 21%(which is rare -...