Bulk Rates
Anyone have suggestions for learning how to price lanes for bulk loads? I come from a van and flatbed background so I always had DAT to give me a baseline and then i would determine where pricing needed to be based on the cities and ship dates and such.
Bulk I am still learning and I hate to always bother carriers by asking for rates when a customer just wants a quote from me without a hard ship date. I try to get a customer to give me a ballpark rate so i have something to work with it but most times they are less receptive to that.
I really just don't want to be a burden to carriers all the time and actually have a tool or something to help me better with pricing so I can then go to a carrier who has expressed interest in a certain lane before and tell them the ship date and target rate.