Ok NOW I'am being serious.
Let's assume for the sake of discussion that the following points are a given: IF no smaller vehicles are within range for pickup, load any truck.IF customer requests special equip etc. including dock high, load any truck.
Truck owners do and should ask for their rate to run their business.
Carriers should run their business as they see fit.
Ok, now what happens when a truck is loaded with inappropriate freight and the above exceptions noted.
Three things happen for sure; the carrier subsidizes the load, because the customer won,t. The freight is hauled in a energy wasteful manner. The carrier records the load as a straight truck or tractor load.
The first item, subsidized price, forces the carrier to pay for this practice by adding to their tarrif.It also signals the customer that yeah, the carrier is committed to pickup my freight no matter what,good, BUT how much of what I pay is wasted on oversize equipment?
How many times have you heard comments like that at a pickup?
The second item is obvious, larger vehicles use more fuel, higher surcharges passed on to yep, the customer.
The third item is one to ponder.
The carrier views his fleet size and makeup in terms of how many of each size vehicle is needed to cover their freight.
Of course this is the computer age so they know exactly what percentage of trucks are inappropriately loaded over any given time.
These loads are both subsidized and one size down loads that an owner takes for lack of something better.
The question becomes, over time, does this emboldon the carrier's number crunchers to over stock the fleet with large vehicles?
And over time, what does this do to the realized income of the fleet, for both the owner operators and the carrier?
So you see that this discussion can be multi-colored, red, black, AND green.
JUST MY OPINION
Let's assume for the sake of discussion that the following points are a given: IF no smaller vehicles are within range for pickup, load any truck.IF customer requests special equip etc. including dock high, load any truck.
Truck owners do and should ask for their rate to run their business.
Carriers should run their business as they see fit.
Ok, now what happens when a truck is loaded with inappropriate freight and the above exceptions noted.
Three things happen for sure; the carrier subsidizes the load, because the customer won,t. The freight is hauled in a energy wasteful manner. The carrier records the load as a straight truck or tractor load.
The first item, subsidized price, forces the carrier to pay for this practice by adding to their tarrif.It also signals the customer that yeah, the carrier is committed to pickup my freight no matter what,good, BUT how much of what I pay is wasted on oversize equipment?
How many times have you heard comments like that at a pickup?
The second item is obvious, larger vehicles use more fuel, higher surcharges passed on to yep, the customer.
The third item is one to ponder.
The carrier views his fleet size and makeup in terms of how many of each size vehicle is needed to cover their freight.
Of course this is the computer age so they know exactly what percentage of trucks are inappropriately loaded over any given time.
These loads are both subsidized and one size down loads that an owner takes for lack of something better.
The question becomes, over time, does this emboldon the carrier's number crunchers to over stock the fleet with large vehicles?
And over time, what does this do to the realized income of the fleet, for both the owner operators and the carrier?
So you see that this discussion can be multi-colored, red, black, AND green.
JUST MY OPINION
