The News Tab
If you read my earlier post titled dispatch services, you may have picked up on the fact I'm a little bored which is getting me in trouble here in paradise.. I now find myself locked in the home office with nothing but my dogs, phone, and computer. 🥺
How many of you take time to read articles under the news tab? More specifically the comments following the article? I ran across the below comments to articles in Freight Waves.
Tuesday, May 19, 2020
Owner-operators seek DOT enforcement of broker regulations
Thomas Moran says:
Sunday, May 31, 2020 at 2:06 am
“Drivers: Less demand = lower prices, it is a free market. Works for you when it goes the other way, you whine to Washington when it doesn’t. Trucking is tough. Our history in brokering over last 20 years is we do more loads for less money per load, lower margins in general. You truckers always free to hire salespeople yourselves. There is no money growing on trees. But probably your time would be better spent not whining about brokers, who are just tools of the market, and work on tort reform and other measures to reduced your insurance bills.”
Monday September 21, 2020
ArcBest: Broker costs increase to $500,000/year if owner-operators have their way
Mark says:
Tuesday, September 22, 2020 at 7:13 pm
“I do not see how any of you people can bitch, U-Haul the Freight quit hauling the stuff, let it sit if the brokers don’t have any trucks than the rates go up, but you guys are too stupid to realize this, you rather go do a rolling roadblock and piss off grandma trying to go to the grocery store, why the brokers back there looking at the TV set saying god look how stupid these truck drivers are”
It's ironic that Mark above calls truck drivers stupid when he can’t form complete sentences, use proper punctuation, or the correct word. It does however, provide a glimpse of what some on the other side think about us.
I have a few more thoughts on this but gotta go for now, pizza is being slid under the door! After lunch me and the dogs are gonna climb out the window and make a run for the barn!😎