Any brokers up to the challenge?

come up to canada and i wll take that challenge, i will uild a 5 sided rounder just for you, and this is a big deal, cause i would have to build them all international!!!!

Afred getting out of Canada does pose a problem. It's a dang shame Nancy ain't in Mexico. If she was in Mexico you could just follow a koyote back out through Edinburg with no strings attached.

Good thinking. I haven't been across the border since they started this cant come home crap.

I wouldn't mind spending a week at The Palace in Matamoras but I'm too old to be walking through all them cacti to get back in to Texas.

2015 Timpte 40' x 96" x 78"

or

2014 great danes on the dry van side

Aw come on Alfred.

Alfred there must have been a full moon or something. I too had one hekuva week. Only misfired on one load and was able to re-negotiate in my favor on it.

Had a major chem company traffic manager call to ask about a lunch meeting. He said I'm too high on rates but one of his field reps had seen our drivers in action and the customer where they were unloading had highly recommended us.

I guess I better take my semi-annual bath, change overalls, and go let him buy my lunch.

Since fuel prices dropped it has confused the heck out of shippers and brokers.

I don't understand how they came up with the idea that mileage rates go down with lowered FSC.

That's absolutely right Jeff, and coffee hasn't gone down after the shortage either.

I cleared much more when freight was regulated. I hauled exempt equipment and building supplies during regulated years and trip leased home a lot. The regulated freight paid good and there was no delay in getting paid.

Most regulated carriers I dealt with had terminal pay and paid at any terminal.
If I mailed in the paperwork Mason Dixon, Ryder, and Redball never took over 10 days to have a check in my mailbox.

Good conversation fellas iam in for all thee above band of truckers 10-4

That would work

I'm in, lets get the ball rolling

Here was some of my thoughts before we formed the Independent Carrier Group. The only thing that has changed is the minimum rate is now about profit margin. We just tag teamed with a broker he is making 7% and we are making 29%. 30,000 lb loads power only, 5 days a week, driver to be home every night and off on the weekends.

There is a big difference in self regulation and relying on the gooberment to form regulations that are in the Independent Carrier's best interest. I doubt that many if any of us have $50 million laying around to use for lobbying and influencing the lawmakers to right the regulations that actually benefit us. I want you to run through all the trucking regulations that have occurred over the past twenty years and tell me which ones actually benefit the smaller carriers.

These regulations will be formed in the guise of safety but are actually designed to place such a burden on the smaller guy to actually run them out of business or that they have to become a glorified power only lease operation with a mega carrier.

The reason deregulation occurred in the first place was not to actually benefit the individual trucker but the shippers. Albeit most of us small carriers would not exist today if deregulation had not occurred. Deregulation actually in concept was a good thing as long as the ICC was still regulating rates for all with the tariff system. When the killed of the ICC and established the FMCSA then rates were no longer part of the job. That is ok, as long as the free market is actually comprised of business folks that can actually run their numbers. When you make something too easy for anybody to do then you end up with the cess pool that we currently have.

Maybe you are all for over regulation of our industry, I for one am not. Whenever the gooberment starts with over regulating they just don't know when to stop. Right now some of the regulations that are active in the name of safety are actually unsafe (mainly the current HOS). I lived under a lot of gooberment regulations when in the Army and I have to tell you that there seem to be more regulations in trucking than I had in the Army. Does this even make sense to you?

It absolutely makes sense, but, are we throwing out the baby with the bathwater? What we understand is that it used to work. (if I am wrong, please put me in a new start point.) The regulations put in place since then DON'T work. Rather than complete deregulation, should we back off to the point that DID work?

I agree with that completely. Please dom't use the term gooberment. We are now seeing what happens to a government divided. Our future is US, united. NOT us, divided. How do we unite?

When the government gets returned back to We the People and starts governing the way our founding fathers intended or in the best interest of our nation. I will be more than happy to give our government officials the respect they are due.

As long as they continue to act like goobers and dance to the puppet masters tunes then they are rightfully titled. Beings I have been left swinging in the breeze by our wonderful government (to appease you). I feel I have the right to call them whatever I desire. They failed to keep their word to a 17 year old that signed up to defend the Constitution of this great nation of ours. Until I see them keep their word to our Vets and active duty members I will continue to refer to them as the gooberment. Is that okay with you?

Thank you.

That's a great idea that way it doesn't pit everyone against eachother.