Truck Driver Says That Owner Operators Are Killing Trucking 🤯 It's Getting Really Bad Out Here
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Ive been hearing don't take cheap freight. I sit on the load boards for months refusing to take "cheap freight" yet that cheap freight is being moved probably by the same drivers that say don't take "cheap freight". So many think the rates are going back to what it was during the pandemic if they don't take "cheap freight". I don't see that happening. some of these rates barely even cover fuel cost and it's crazy i see them getting swooped up off the load boards in minutes. It's gotta get worse before it will get better meaning the rates have to get worse, more drivers dropping out and less brokers.
That's why I parked my truck. I'm not gonna be part of what's destroying this industry.
I parked my truck this is insane im not running for 3-400$ thats insane the rates are on the floor out here in PA.!
Rates go up and down, Have been doing that for a long time... Its funny to watch these broke asses say "Dont take cheap frieght"
@@hobo_jesus I'm in PA and the company I run for is based out of PA. Just closed the the week $7200 gross to the truck all northeast running this week. Upstate NY, Maryland, western and southern pa runs. It's out there you just gotta work extra hard these days. The long hauls or 2+ day runs don't pay. You gotta pull 1 day loads and short hops here and there. All loads I pulled this week were $2.50+. You can't run a business pulling anything under $2 a mile I don't care if you own your shit or not. At least .75 a mile goes right to fuel
My man the only option honestly is to take cheap freight or Quit. Until there is a trucking Shortage and a High Demand to move freight this is reality but don’t worry it will go back to great rates as soon as enough people go broke.
"cheap freight" completely depends on your cost per mile. 90% of these clowns don't know theirs.
VERY TRUE!
Just bcus cost per mile is low doesnt mean we should pull cheap loads. I agree with the second part, some also dnt know thr difference between gross n net 😟
Especially the international new drivers
This is 100% accurate. Spent years listening to Kevin Rutherford on satellite radio on his weekend show. He would get inundated with the "stop hauling cheap freight" and 99% of them would have no idea what their CPM was. The other question was always "what do you consider cheap freight?" and the could never answer that question, either.
Most of these drivers are excellent drivers, but absolutely horrible businessmen.
Not necessarily true. Low overhead means the definition of cheap changes drastically. They live like they are broke. Rain or shine.
This guy is 100 percent correct DONT GET INTO SOMETHING YOU DONT KNOW ABOUT! Takes years to built up clients not over night and load boards are not the ANSWER!
Hats off to that guy. He’s building his Co. the right way. Much respect to him.
Its not owner operators ruining the business. Its large companies hiring newbies for pennies and hauling loads for nickels
Owner operators are killing the trucking industry!?? Really well now we're putting the blame on each other rather than putting the blame where it belongs! This is just great! I said many times before you can't get two truckdrivers to stick together if you used superglue, #9 tie wire and duct tape right here's the proof! Not going to say anymore just falls on deaf ears and I'm wasting my time even bringing this to light again!
United we stand, divided we fall
No, Joey Biden is killing the trucking industry
The few truckers that have some contract are blaming the owner op that surviving knowing we all can’t have a contract
the rates will continue to go down till trucking goes autonomous... people dont realize how badly companies want the driver cost gone. those trucks like mine (a 1979 cabover) have a much higher required ppm than a crappy plastic truck.. so he better get used to driving empty lol. also no one feels for someone that totally customs a truck then says they need to make more lol.
He’s says don’t haul cheap rates!
Doesn’t matter how cheap the rate is some desperate person will take it just to pay a bill.
It’s a matter
Of survival!
Alan Ritchie started out delivering mail in a station wagon. He then bought 3 gas powered semi's. Later 10 Diesel semi's. Before the internet he had 90 pct of the US Mail contracts and leased 10k trailers to US Mail.
I hauled cars for 20 years and my truck never looked like a show truck. First of all it was a work truck and second ,I would never go into so much debt for a truck that should be a show truck and not a work truck. I would hate to see how much debt you have on each unit. My wife and I own our 2019 Pete 567 and trailer outright and make good money hauling new RVs around the country. Would not go into debt with the current regime running the country. Hop
I switched from a 9 car to a 4/5 car because of what he was saying about a lot of loads posted only being 1 or 2 cars I keep my cost per mile low and actually make more money hauling 4 or 5 than I did running around trying to fill a 9 car
Proud of any ones success
They won't stop taking cheap freight because they're too desperate to keep that truck that they're underwater in. Overpaid by 50, 75, 100k, even with low interest rates, their payments are so high that they can't even afford to go home for a weekend. We gotta wait another year until these dummies all get wiped out of the game. Its harsh but when you make stupid decisions without thinking about the future you deserve to struggle and lose. I have no sympathy.
Agreed. Sad but true. Too much truck capacity right now.
Meh, i kind of agree. You dont know what you dont know until you find out. Stupid decisions would be knowing better and ya do it anyway. In that case, yeah they get what they have comin for sure.
❤May I ask you to specify, what YOU sympathize with?
@@sandfordhall2042 smart people.
@@armanarmadillo exactly. like I said i can only ageee with the original coment when you know better and do it anyway.
a lot of it just comes down to lack research and homework.
Thanks for the information all this helps to know how’s the trucking market.
I saw purple rain in Houston at Cletus and car's like two years ago. Beautiful Pete 💯💪🏼
"If you 'ayn't with them, they don't respect you". Who needs those people? F that! They forget who they work for.
I have been car hauling for 13 years, and I didn't see the rates as low as right now. I constantly fight to keep the rates high, but some carries will haul even for minus.
Always hauling. Now that's dedication. Even in these crazy times.
Mega carriers are the ones Thts causing the cheap freight.
Seeing as how contract rates are .90+ more per mile than spit market I highly doubt that. Tender rejections are less than 5%. It was at +22% in 21.
Lmao “you can’t pay to make your problems go away” that’s in Fact exactly what people with money do.
That’s exactly what the money’s for 😕
Just getting rid of the riff raff out here. The cream always rises to the top.
They about to fuck up car hauling now. He ain't tell ya shit
Do what works for your Business model if you make a decent living hualing cheap freight then continue to hual the cheap freight if you can't make money hualing cheap freight then don't hual cheap frieght . In other words model your business on what works for it and you .
Viewing from Kingston, Jamaica 🇯🇲 ... nice interview 👍
Bottom line is some driver they get mad if you tell them don’t haul cheap freight, some of them I even befriend them … I will never do a cheap load ,……. I’m glad my truck is pay off and I’m single no drama no stress 😎
That last sentence is the truth 😂
I see these boys over at Homer's truck wash or running though WI often...always looking stellar!
I stop hauling cheap loads for 6 months, where's the support.
I lost over 40k
Just gotta roll with it till things get better
It won’t get better. My truck has been parked for over a year. I will let it rot before I drive for 2 dollars a mile.
@@GorillaWithThemGuns I understand. ☹️
Proud of you brother keep granding
Funny how they blame owner operator, we gotta eat too
Remember the old trucks running in the 70’s? I’m not even sure when they were originally from. I remember when guys slept on two boards laid across their two cab seats which sat at an angle and they basically had nothing else in terms of accommodations. It was unreal
hilarious ask a guy if he wants competition. obviously hes gonna say no. everyone should leave the market. hes got this.
Why ask him if having a custom truck vs a plastic truck makes a difference !!!!!!!!why . It’s your business knowledge is what’s going to determine your success a bad business man / women is a bad business person not the truck you drive🤷🏾♂️
People wanted me to ask the question. So I asked. 😊
@@MuthaTrucker Well this is the problem with the industry ,too many guys and girls become owner op’s with no business sense at all , if you listen to this guy he could have had a fleet of internationals 🚛🚛 & he still would have been successful, because he knows business 1st
@Diddybuilt NAILED IT 👍🏻👍🏻
ALEX THEGREAT!!! MUCH RESPECT BHRU! SUCCESS, WE ALL CAN BE SUCCESSFUL! KEEP TRUCKN!!
Easy to say stop taking cheap freight when you're made out of money.
If you're taking cheap rates you are part of the problem
This guy is goofy but the problem is all the people that Got into trucking during/after the pandemic when rates and loads were sky high and everywhere, trucks were way overpriced now everyone is upside down on a truck loan and just trying to make their payments
Truth hurts. Cheap financing, cheap trucks, cheap drivers = cheap rates
So the mega carriers will always be able to cover cheap freight because they can offset it with their better paying customers plus the shear volume of trucks they have.
Like others have said one persons cheap freight is another persons profit load it all depends on ones operating costs.
Interesting that since I started driving in 1989 I’ve heard of a drivers shortage yet the rates have gone up and down through all those years…………when one would think if there wasn’t enough drivers to move the freight people would be paying a premium to get it moved but we all know that’s not the case.
There are many issues with the trucking business today well discussed by those in it and on websites like this. The drivers that seem to be doing the best are specialized ones like the one in this article. One fear I have with the collapse of rates will be a lot more poorly maintained and unsafe trucks out on the road.
rate cutting has been going on forever and will never stop
Truckers need to realize that they make the rate! You provide a service to the customer that needs to cost x amount, if they don't offer that to you then you negotiate to get your x amount that you need if they don't meet you where you need it, say thank you and hang up! We make the rates people!! No one to blame for down rates but truckers.
I see these guys all the time they run around my area I love there trucks… the one he standing behind is very known in the Chicago area…..
Mutha Trucker you're doing a service. The Trucking Life For ever. :)
Props brother.
Ouch! Never going to happen but good luck... Too many steering wheel holders anymore.
It's these mega companies my opinion those drivers that work for those companies are steering wheel holders
100%.
You can't compete with three guys in a truck that can hardly speak English. DOT won't mess with them. They cut a hole in floor board so they don't have to stop. And wearing fllp flop's. I remember cheap freight 50 years ago. After deregulation. Oh I forgot about the towel on there head's.
And don't forget about all the major accidents they cause
To follow up the discussion around low freight rates with showing off your 150k trucks... That's kind of counter productive isn't it??
🤣🤣 $150k. A standard car hauler is $400-$450k new. These are fully custom with custom head racks from TNC. He is likely paying $550-$600k each per truck.
"Stop taking cheap freight" haha, that's not gonna happen. The load board is designed to pass the cheap freight along to the small carriers. It's the race to the bottom and I don't think were there yet. There's still plenty of guy's that are willing to run these loads just to keep the wheels rolling.
It’s rough out here. DAT rarely have any decent loaded posted .
This fool drives a parking lot..... It's a totally different game.....
Owner operators are vital to the economy
According to American Trucking Associations, there are 3.5 million truckers in the United States, and of those, 800,000 are owner operator. Owner operators haul 70% of the nation's freight ...........
Owner ops, leased on to mid eastern companies are the reason. They are taking cheap freight so they won’t have a negative check after deductions. Most mid eastern companies freight comes from the load board.
Exactly these dudes jump out of trucking school trying to be lease purchasers and end up going to those shady Chicago companies who can care less. These new drivers are paying for their trucks, their own fuel insurance etc. They get to profit while you make money or not. No incentive to get quality loads everything is profitable for them.
Alex, next time you talk to a car hauler ask them when was the last time they had to pay for damages to a vehicle.
Auto haulers always have the most insurance claims.
@@tony6796 Most of the time we pay out of pocket. The increase in rates for making a claim cost more than just paying out of pocket unless you total something.
He's out there cause he's a trucker....not a pencil pusher. Most of us can't do office work. It's just not in us. Good on all his office staff. When you're out on the road you need trustworthy office staff.👍👍
He's self employed, not a business owner.
@Pernection lol then he's a business owner morron.
@@Pernection if you're self employed you are a business owner 😅😅.
@Jerry Wilcox your calling me a moron? Dude, you can't even comprehend English? He's a business owner who doesn't want to be in the office but rather be on the road.
Go end up in the ditch....
Too many trucks with big Payments
Thats why im glad that I deliver trailers for different companies and I will even take a few loads to make evern more money i stay out of the northeast as much as possible because of the fuel prices are ridiculously high out there but if i do run up there i make sure that its worth my time and effort i make an honest living with my one truck my bills are paid on time and I always have a little extra for that rainy day my house is paid off and so is my car my pickup my boat and trailer as well as my rv
I'm staying local, only way to get a decent rate. These idiots are taking these rates, not realizing they're losing. Extreme debt or bankruptcy in their future.
Isn't that a good thing, that mean in the near future the market will open back up
@Kalvin Sampson Yes, you can't just jump into trucking because the money is good at that time. You have to have a business plan to survive the downtime.
Try getting a contract instead of using load boards. That's where the money is. No broker/middleman gobbling up your profits
No business and I mean NO BUSINESS is easy in the beginning bottom line. Also, if im doing decent in selling X, Y, and Z duh i dont want no competition
remember stop saying we have ression proof job, it is only up to GOD either we eat or dont.
The guy has trucks that fit his business model. No shade there.
Respect for what he says at 3:00: “no”
At the end of the day, cheap freight is dependent on your cost per mile. But just because you can take cheap freight doesn’t mean you should. I sure as hell don’t.
Same thing in the scrap metal business these people keep paying these crazy high prices for scrap when the prices have went down and all the cost to do the business have went up
There's never a trucking shortage to companies who pay market rates.
That is how markets work.
There’s people with not a lot of money making businesses I got money I don’t know what the problem is
trucking needs to stop for a day or two so they realize that theres no way they can continue doing this to us, look what happened to colorado when that guy got 100 years for the accident. government was begging for us to operate in the state cause everyone was gonna starve to death, also they were paying almost 10$ a mile because trucks stood together and didnt enter colorado. so imagine if everyone stood together and stopped driving for 2 days. thats my opinion.
Dam them trucks are beauty's ‼️‼️👍🏽👍🏽
I don’t know what more you guys could ask for. The load boards for flatbeds and reefer out of ms are good. Some loads over 5.50 a mile. I guess some like me consider that good money. If I can make over 1500 a day doing two short runs I consider that a score
Same here
Good job. Looks like the dude puts way too much money in his rigs…a plain rig gets you to the same place in the same amount of time. I doubt anybody hires a hauler, at a premium price, because of the paint job…I’m 65, residential handyman, almost 50 years in it. I don’t think I ever even made 600 in a day. Thrilled when I make 350!
Take care, safe driving to you…
Unless all ALL trucks are parked for one month and drivers have their demands on hand, nothing will change. Nothing.
He doesn't have to take cheap freight because he is a car hauler dry van and refrigerated is a whole other story
These boys doing their thing.
On Sunday uh 🧐 I hate working on Sunday 🤷🏾♀️
90 percent of freight is hauled by 10 percent of the company’s. That 10 percent of the freight that 90 percent of the companies move is spot market. The only way to go is contract freight if you can get the shipping company to talk to your small fries. The ONLY time the spot market is any good is when the market on available trucks is limited due to excessive freight availability
I don’t listen to nobody!! We are working!! All bills are paid!! The last 3 years have been good, so as soon as the rates go down, people say park your truck!! This is trucking. You take the good with the bad!! This is our 23rd year!! This is a business!! Make it happen!!!
I say keep taking the cheap freights. Let nature take its course and the ones that can’t survive find another industry. It’s a brutal business and industry and it’s over saturated. Give it another year and the ones who make it out will thrive.
Agree
He's Blind to the Facts, Everyone is Second and Third Fiddle to the Broker's, they get the First Dips at the Money, for the loads.
Government has to regulate the BROKERS
HOW DAFUK IS OWNER OPERATOR MESSIN IT UP WEN MOST OF THEM STARTED OUT AS THIS..THEY JUST FLEXIN
That might be the case for the Northern part of the US but what is killing trucking down here in the south and a lot of people havent noticed is that there are tons of Mexican truckers moving loads near the border for dirt cheap, which causes truckers at the border start to move north, and when theres too many truckers and few loads, prices go down. Im all for immigration and all that, but if theyre gonna be making the rich even more rich and taking my bread, they can stay on their side, or at least make them pay the same that we pay.
I say this being a 1st generation immigrant so dont come at me with accusations. I've also done dry van, car hauling, and flat bed, so I've lived what I'm talking about, im not getting my news from the news.
Indians are more than mexicans now. how they come here and taking US citizen's jobs?
Impressive 🎉💯
Well most companies don't care who or what hauls there product, lots off big outfits have brokers with the worst equipment on the road
Them not listening and still taking cheap freight
If anything it’s the big companies hurting the industry the got the trucks to haul all that cheap freight and still profit
Cheap is moving because of the influx of owner operators getting family or friends together buy trucks then take any load that’s on load board
The guy in that video couldn't have said it no more better. That is everybody has to stop expecting these cheap loads. We control what these customers is going to pay us. They need us more than we need them as so lets start utilizing our power truckers
Autonomous trucks: HOLD MY BEER!
I needed here that
All these new guys who just popped up in the industry, are thones who are ruining everything for us. They got these huge truck notes to pay, plus insurance, plus nices homes and cars, and women and kids to feed; so, dont expect them to reject a load. Most of them only been in the industry for a few years, plus, they came in the game based on hearsay, that they'd become rich. So, to them, $1,300 for a 2k miles load, makes sense to them.
We can't just say don't haul cheap freight, we have to define it with a number! I know my line is a lot lower than most considering I have a paid for tractor and only do PO loads and act like a vulture by sitting waiting for for the emergency loads which are where the money is at.
Anything less than 3 is cheap
My truck is paid for too.... Its funny watching these guys burn
Getting a contract is where the money is at. There is no broker/middleman. Even Amazon would pay you alot more than a load board.
@@GorillaWithThemGunsMan if I were getting $3 a mile I'd be able to eat steak all week!
@@joec7238 It was the best move I made. I'm still in disbelief that some of those guys were buying a standard trucks at $250k.
Who does their custom work (interior & exterior)
Car haulers and flatbedders r the very best commercial drivers. My hats of to them🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙
I don't know.........I think there are fantastic drivers in several niches of the trucking industry. Over size over dimensional freight has very good drivers. And how bout we drivers who haul bulk liquid and gasses that if just a tiny bit leaks or gets out its a shelter in place or evac situation?? Takes mindfulness and attention to detail to ensure everyone's safety and well being to load transport and unload or transload that stuff. Lol
Tell him to buy a reefer or dryvan and them talk about the freights
Are people really this stupid it’s called supply and demand freight rates aren’t down because of the owner operator there’s less freight to haul because of the economy so the bigger companies are sucking up a lot of the spot freight just to keep their trucks fueled and rolling and they are leaving owners the scraps . And if u try to hold out for more money then someone else will under bid you before u get a response from the broker. All we can do now is just survive and try to lower our overhead and keep moving and stay away from the bad areas 🤷♂️
Cheap rates are from foreigners taking cheap freight all day
You picked Nich market smart man
In 2007-2010 car haulers suffered. $300 from Ny to Fl and back per car. In a recession, everything gets hard. Without direct customers you’re going broke.
that joker truck is crazy 🔥🔥😍
Now I'm just asking? What are you referring to as plastic trucks? Just curious
Probably Cascadias. Also known as disposable trucks.
😂😂😂😂😂😂 plastic trucks😂😂😂😂😂😂 ask them the right question ... how many miles per gallon...😂😂😂😂😂😂
😅😅
Easier said than done when u owe 300k+
I love purple rain ❤
Sounds like race to the bottom
Give it a few more years. Then when rates return to normal it will turn into a feeding frenzy lol
The owner ops I know are making money hand over fist.
My experience has been do not take a job that pays less than you can afford. Why because they will just find another fool.
They do know how much it costs. That is why they don't do it themselves.