turritrans
Expert Expediter
So there are only 14 trucks in TX!.....LOL
Yes have to be very careful, a lot of those vans and sprinters are duplicates from shared carriers.
TK
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So there are only 14 trucks in TX!.....LOL
Yes have to be very careful, a lot of those vans and sprinters are duplicates from shared carriers.
Which only serves to artificially inflate capacity which drives down rates thru the basics of supply and demand. So who makes more or saves? I have beat this horse again and again.
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turritrans
Expert Expediter
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The horse isn't dead yet! Ill be more then happy to get my baseball bat and beat the ever living crap out of that sonuvagun!
Who makes out are the people controlling the bid boards and the 3PLs. Carriers are playing right along by artificially inflating capacity putting pressure on rates.
guido4475
Not a Member
I love this job, and all that it has to offer. Especially the freedom. I have met alot of awesome people while doing this. Seen alot of cool things and places. Where my family members have to "save up" for a vacation to Vegas, I simply get a load going there, getting paid along the way. It is the things at home missed and the home life that I miss.
Murraycroexp
Veteran Expediter
True. There's certainly not that many expeditors. But it sure seems that way when you drive down that little service road at Walmart in town. LOL!!
It is misleading, though. As OVM noted, when the Five Star thing started, it was simply a way to thank those who advertised on, and thus supported, EO. It's got nothing to do with how good a carrier you are or anything else, it's strictly a case of "You advertise on EO, you're a Five Star Carrier in my book."
With the popularity of rating anything and everything on the Internet these days, the EO Five Star Rating is no longer relevant, and is misleading because people naturally think the carriers got those Five Stars be being rated as such by someone. And the natural assumption is that EO is the one who has given the ratings.
Of course, when you think about it, EO is not in the position to be able to hand out quality ratings to any carrier about anything other than how many ads they run and whether they pay their advertising bill on time. Something to keep in mind.
Those who get bent out of shape about a crappy carrier having a Five Star rating are bent out of shape because they are attaching a meaning to the Five Stars that doesn't not exist. It doesn't surprise me that people would do that, considering the prevalence of rating systems all over the Internet, and considering that expediting is practically defined by uninformed and misinformed (A.K.A., ignorant) drivers who encounter situations that are unexpected to them and the drivers characterize the results as being "wrong" simply because it didn't turn out the way their ignorance thought it should.
But with the imminent site redesign the Five Star rating will either go away or be reclassified as Five Star Advertisers or something else that clarifies it.
underdog777
Seasoned Expediter
lets play the smart game! yes or no answer, none of your bs! if a owner operator company like panther lost all its owner ops? would they not be nothing? my answer is yes
Congratulations! There is nothing in that "sentence" that is accurate or true. Not one word. That's a remarkable accomplishment.
The Glory Days are over. They don't make buggy whips like they used to, or pagers or telephone answering machines. Try to find a manual typewriter these days, or a television sitcom where husband and wife sleep in separate twin beds.
These are the new glory days. Relish in them. Life is what you make it. Then it's over.
The answer is no, because they are already a non-asset based company as it is. If everyone leased to them suddenly left, Panther would simply broker their loads out to other trucks, same as they do now when they have loads that can't be covered with their own trucks.
Welcome to EO... You new here?lol
rockytopman2
Seasoned Expediter
You got it. And as of today, they are still listed as a Carrier on this site. Go figure!
I thought Sylectus had the multi-carrier trucks showing up as duplicates? But when I look up trucks on that board there really aren't that many duplicates posted. Have the smaller companies figured out how to change the vin numbers on their trucks so they don't show up as duplicates? Just wondering!
Murraycroexp
Veteran Expediter
Yes. Exactly.
CharlesD
Expert Expediter
That horse is a bloody pile of unrecognizable flesh by now.
CharlesD
Expert Expediter
They do show up now. The other day I think I saw one vehicle listed with 6 carriers.
You can put anything you want in that VIN field anyway. I wouldn't be surprised if people aren't faking them.
Yeah some do. But I know there are way more shared trucks than what are actually showing up as duplicates. If you change the vin numbers for every one of your trucks, they will not show up as a duplicates.
That is exactly what we are seeing. Many of these carriers CONSTANTLY look for ways to cheat or game the system. Vin numbers are one way. The biggest scarier one is how they play with insurance. They have policies that are not for expediting and they have coverage amounts far below the contracts they sign. A few good players exist, but they are the few.
turritrans
Expert Expediter
We are also still getting a lot of calls from drivers with log-ins booking loads from their trucks too... A few carriers are small outfits that work out of the truck that provide good service, no issue there if the owner is also driving. I am concerned about the carriers that cheat hiring dispatchers and having 24 dispatch by allowing unqualified drivers book their own loads.
Same shananagins... A lot of freight takers that contribute nothing in return to the network aside from depressing the rates.
Same shananagins... A lot of freight takers that contribute nothing in return to the network aside from depressing the rates.
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