gwconover
Active Expediter
Hello All:
My name is Garrett Conover and I am an O/O, retired, with 1.5 years + in the Expediting Industry. I run 48 States and have had the honor of meeting many of your drivers. As prior LE, I am really shock that many of you seem to be under the impression that your company will not be held liable for an incident involving a vehicle you have either contracted to perform your services and/or one of your contractors that is involved in in a MVA when they are overloaded. All Vehicles have a manufactures GVW. Even in the absence of a drivers personal property, IE: generators, Straps, e-tracks. I have been shocked to see first hand the weight some of you are allowing to be shipped under your names. Even when you have a actual MT weight CAT form. When it happens on a CNN news worthy incident, you can rest assured that your entire companies history, BOL's will be opened for inspection. And all the profits made will be gone. AS well as the anything the drivers may have. New rules can be anticipated, from the GOV. In todays business world this is just fact. My particular vehicle is a bare bones Sprinter 2500. Cloths, cot, personal items. Cat Scale shows I can legally haul up to 2,180 LBS. GVW is GVW all the time.
Second issue I would like to address is the present rate per mile drivers get when they contract to one of your companies. The old adage of you get what you pay for has already been felt by some of us. You can continue to pay "cheap" rates and there nothing "Good Honest on time" contractors can do except go out of Business. The industry as we know it will fold.
Let me offer an alternative. Honest Brokers. Now there is a concept. It is my firm belief that any brokers/companies that pay an honest rate per-mile, Show the contractors that actual pay sheet from the shipper, payed as agreed to will take over the majority of the industry. It is laughable at some of the vehicles and driver presentation (EI: non-professional looking, dirty unkempt) that I see show up at the same places I load at. Shippers have a laugh. Again you get what you pay for. Learn who are the contractors that are the true professionals to represent your company.
In ending, rumor and I stress rumor, is the GOV is looking into the Fuel Surcharge and how it is being used as actual payment for loads hauled. Not as it was intended, EI: offset fuel cost for the Owner of the vehicle.
Wishing all the best:
Garrett W. Conover
Conover Family Carries; LLC
Erin, New York 14836
607-857-2232
[email protected]
www.conoverfc.com
My name is Garrett Conover and I am an O/O, retired, with 1.5 years + in the Expediting Industry. I run 48 States and have had the honor of meeting many of your drivers. As prior LE, I am really shock that many of you seem to be under the impression that your company will not be held liable for an incident involving a vehicle you have either contracted to perform your services and/or one of your contractors that is involved in in a MVA when they are overloaded. All Vehicles have a manufactures GVW. Even in the absence of a drivers personal property, IE: generators, Straps, e-tracks. I have been shocked to see first hand the weight some of you are allowing to be shipped under your names. Even when you have a actual MT weight CAT form. When it happens on a CNN news worthy incident, you can rest assured that your entire companies history, BOL's will be opened for inspection. And all the profits made will be gone. AS well as the anything the drivers may have. New rules can be anticipated, from the GOV. In todays business world this is just fact. My particular vehicle is a bare bones Sprinter 2500. Cloths, cot, personal items. Cat Scale shows I can legally haul up to 2,180 LBS. GVW is GVW all the time.
Second issue I would like to address is the present rate per mile drivers get when they contract to one of your companies. The old adage of you get what you pay for has already been felt by some of us. You can continue to pay "cheap" rates and there nothing "Good Honest on time" contractors can do except go out of Business. The industry as we know it will fold.
Let me offer an alternative. Honest Brokers. Now there is a concept. It is my firm belief that any brokers/companies that pay an honest rate per-mile, Show the contractors that actual pay sheet from the shipper, payed as agreed to will take over the majority of the industry. It is laughable at some of the vehicles and driver presentation (EI: non-professional looking, dirty unkempt) that I see show up at the same places I load at. Shippers have a laugh. Again you get what you pay for. Learn who are the contractors that are the true professionals to represent your company.
In ending, rumor and I stress rumor, is the GOV is looking into the Fuel Surcharge and how it is being used as actual payment for loads hauled. Not as it was intended, EI: offset fuel cost for the Owner of the vehicle.
Wishing all the best:
Garrett W. Conover
Conover Family Carries; LLC
Erin, New York 14836
607-857-2232
[email protected]
www.conoverfc.com
