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It's different for me. I book and negotiate the rate on every load I haul. I'm satisfied with my rates. There's no perfect world in trucking and never will be. If you do a good job with little to no fuss then you should be commanding your rates and getting them. I hate doing examples cause...

If the rate was solid from the get go you wouldn't get so frustrated. That's trucking. The choices are someone else gets frustrated with it, it sits on the dock, or you get a fair rate. Detention, whatever it may be, is just icing on the cake. Sent from my C811 4G using EO Forums mobile app

I see what you're talking about from the brokers Charles. It almost seems like they've had a conference and agreed $35 an hour is what they're going to pay anymore. Rarely get the "what will you charge for detention?" anymore. You can head that off negotiating better detention before signing a...

Actually have a better relationship with the likes of TQL and CHR than anyone in sylectus network. Which is sad because really at TQL I am not on a first name basis with anyone but they have a history in their computer and they don't beat around the bush if they call me with something critical...

It must be a bad market. That's good for you. What gets me is demand is fairly good for trucks on truckloads yet you still have people living in a time warp from 15 years ago that $2 a mile is all a truck should ever get. They'll charge a customer $2,000 to move an expedite and act as if...

Maybe to the brokered carrier the rate erodes. Brokers aren't cutting customers any slack at all. With expedite they want to get things moving for ordinary truckload rates. Carriers insisting on more are considered greedy vultures. Sent from my C811 4G using EO Forums mobile app

Yeah they can no-one pays attention to the 4th amendment anymore. Sent from my C811 4G using EO Forums mobile app

...which just goes to show you can find an answer for just about anything under the sun on EOL lol Sent from my C811 4G using EO Forums mobile app

Yeah that's at least 10 years that you'd never be driving for any reputable carrier. Might get lucky and get a job driving a 1,000 miles overnight every night for 18 cents a mile at some outlaw company though. Sound like fun? Really stupid to even think about alcohol anywhere near a truck...

Tractor trailer gives you flexibility. Sent from my C811 4G using EO Forums mobile app

Yeah I hate it when that happens lol

OP has "miles think" very hard to make anything in this business with that mindset. Sent from my C811 4G using EO Forums mobile app

I always avoid, if possible, parking my 18 at truck stops for mandatory 10 hr rest breaks. It's usually not too difficult to find somewhere near p/u or delivery in the industrial areas to take a rest break. I have no choice but to park at truck stops for showers but always try to do my showers...

And so it continues. Obama will announce tonight, without the need for congressional approval, that he's going to order air strikes in Syria. Against a group armed, funded, and trained directly or indirectly by us. Ain't that just the craziest thing when you think about it? He's using the...

I'm not opposed to war per se. Nor foolish enough to think we can all embrace and sing kumbahyah. What I am opposed to is the blatant abuse of power the executive gets away with. They can go start a war anywhere for any reason and are not accountable. It's rotten and corrupt. Not what is...

Protecting our own country is one thing. Starting never ending wars against manufactured, real and imaginary, enemies is another thing altogether. It's been 25 years of on again off again with Iraq. No end in sight. ISIS, an enemy we manufactured is the pretext for invading Syria toppling a...

Military has been over deployed for decades. It needs to be brought home and drastically cut. This country was never intended to maintain a standing army. We were never supposed to get involved in foreign adventures. Despite propaganda and brain washing to the contrary the world ain't gonna...

What good did a "strong military" do for us in the Bush 43 era? We still had the same wide open borders and invasions from the south that we have now. We've got an ocean to the west and east to keep enemies out. If that's not enough we have a capable navy and coast guard. To the north we...

Probably it would be a raise, as in better rates,for many expediters. Expediting can be had for so cheap. Sent from my C811 4G using EO Forums mobile app

If it was me I'd replace the governor again if it's not shutting off at 120 psi. They're really cheap only about $30 or so. You'd think it's only a year old and shouldn't need it. How it ought to be. I don't believe manufacturers have any sort of quality control on these kind of components...