Hard working Broker

For starters stay out of the bulk industry TQL!

Look up fmi in Chicago they have all your looking for ,that way you can stay off here have a good day

I haul bulk grain and potatoes in a reefer so maybe the guy is sincere? I don't know what he's up to, maybe he's a newbie, maybe he's used to loading bulk in reefers, so I give him the benefit of the doubt.

This is a little off the subject but i was wondering if you could ever haul van type freight, like on pallets in walking floor trailers like you own or if a forklift would wreck the floor or if a person could get by just using a pallet jack, or is either option just a big no no. Also as for the van broker or any other agent wanting to advertise their service, I say BRING IT ON! EVERY TRUCK I HAVE OWNED WAS PRETTY MUCH ABLE TO LATCH UP TO ANY KIND OF TRAILER OUT THERE AND I WOULD HAUL JUST ABOUT ANYTHING IF THE MONEY WAS RIGHT. Although at the current time I am not looking for work.

Mr.Stier,
I run Walking Floors. Yes you can haul pallet loads on a floor. My trailers were purchased new. I did not buy a forklift rated floor. The manufacturer says don't put a forklift on it and we don't I however see people do it. One of my competitors run forklifts in regularly and it, over time, damaged the floor, but they can afoord to trade often. We have learned to walk the loads in and out. so we regularly do pallet loads without risking the integrity of the floor. It took us awhile to learn some tricks to make walking pallets easier but it can be done. Of course there are shippers that won't load from the ground. Typically if I go somewhere where they have never loaded a floor from the ground when I leave they are happy to see us come back. They can load me as fast as a flatbed.

Art Pfluger

Hello, we have four 2014 Chevy Express 2500 Cargo vans, with drivers. We are stationed in Atlanta, GA, but ready to run East of the Mississipi. Can we work with you? If so, please contact me at [email protected]

Charles

What's the deal with TQL? Can you please explain?

Brent;do your customer's need any more flatbed work in Ohio?

the flat bed and van division post on the same site as the bulk because the two sites are joined in the forum posting. just an fyi as i have seen comments from both on here.

grains, pulses, mostly durum, corn, malting barley, flax, lentils, canary seed, etc. i ship mostly anything of bulk farmer to elevator, rail or container. i ship bulk fert. into producer and retail. do a lot of international back and forth, try to build rounders. i also do hay loads, large round and squares. i also do seed and and round up during those seasons but that is van and flat deck work.Experience wise, i have moved many oil field services loads from pipe to o/d equipment. Not much call up here for those commodities except maybe the tallow to Maple Leaf. If you are Canada friendly there is lots to do, but unfortunately i am not allowed to inter state in America even with my own customers.

Thanks Nancy. I'll check them tomorrow. We've been having 4-5 trucks per month bounce back into Houston from the Dakotas anWyoming.

Jerry Beck, i found it!

Nancy, Could you please email me your contact info? Thanks, Don J. Smith Mid South Carbon 817-609-2634 [email protected]

Jerry, I believe that I slam more on shippers vs brokers. The brokers often times are limited by what the shippers tell them they are willing to pay.

Example:

A: Shipper tell broker that they want to pay $1.80 per mile, broker takes 20% cut leaving $1.44 per mile to the truck.

B: This is how is should be Truck wants $2.39 broker marks up rate by 20% $2.86 to the shipper.

Shipper should be happy they could not do it themselves any cheaper, broker did their job, and the truck got what they wanted. WIN-WIN-WIN

you could plug any numbers you want in the situations, but either way B is always the best choice.

I never said I hated brokers, we work with brokers every day as well as shippers. My postings have not just been for the trucker but for the broker as well so they could see what they should be bidding the freight at. It is frustrating from both sides when one is pissed at the other and neither know the reason why. Now that the truth is out their for all to see, hopefully some will take it and use it for the good of all concerned.

I believe that it may possibly be too late, no grain reserves left, markets collapsing worldwide, looks like a bad harvest coming up, Wal-Mart is even struggling to make a profit right now. Electronic Logs, Speed Limiters, higher insurance, and whatever else the government can through our way. Pretty bad stuff, hold on and be prudent during these times, many of us will be gone within the next two years.

Good luck to all, I tried

I wasn't taking it in a bad light. I was just letting the rest know that I am finished with talking about the issue, it seems like everybody want to gripe but not do anything about it, so why even try. I will go back to doing what I was doing before, build up my own fleet, run my numbers my way. Bounce when we need to, leave the cheap stuff behind for somebody else. Charge twice the rate to go to bad freight areas to take care of the round trip. 5 times the rate for California, 10 times the rate for NY and above, 4 times the rate to go to Fl and so on, my trucks only need to go places that consistently pay good in and out. We have to charge at least $4 + to go to Texas because they belive that it is a backhaul back to Missouri. Here you go I would rather backhaul air then the cheap freight, it cost less to haul air vs. hauling something for somebody that barely covers the fuel. I guess many out there don't believe their time is worth anything,

I wonder how many Americans would continue to work or run a business is they were expected to work for free 50% of the time. Maybe that is why we have so many sorry individuals sitting around at home not working. It is ok for me, I cashed out of the stock market back in January, and can afford to sit around on my own dime, until the market picks back up.

I made quite a bit of change with some of these grain companies by buying and selling their stocks, so I guess I should be happy as an individual that everybody hauled the grains dirt cheap this past year, but I am not. All parties should be able to make money together and still be profitable. I told my men that we were just going to be more and more picky on the loads. I feel for the truckers that are going to be going out of business, but alas that seems to be the cycle, I also feel for the brokers that are scrambling around and trying to sell that garbage freight, that has to suck as well. I feel for the shipper that the next time the market starts to uptick there will be an even greater shortage of trucks than there is now. Hiring 18 yr olds is not going to solve the problem, the rest of us that survive will have our hammers out and be ready to pound back to make up for the stupididty and greed that has occurred. There is no loyalty amongst hardly any in our nation. Look around you and you will see the same as me, or maybe you saw it long before I did.

Hi Damain

I am looking for loads from Northern California to utah or back hauls. Even WA loads can be considered.

indu

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