Hey there Driver. We're so happy you've decided to take the time to drop by to check out today's upload.... a Premiere! Tell us about your experience with finding your own freight, if you're an independent trucker. Do you steer away from load brokers or have you nailed your own direct customers? Love to hear from you. 😎
I own 5 tractors (0 trailers) and they're leased to and run under the authority of, a local, regional company. Fortunately, all of my equipment is paid off so the only real overhead I have is fuel, maintenance, insurance and payroll (and of course the dreaded TAXES!). I started as a part time fleet driver with this company 30 years ago and have grown my own company by working with them since then. They DON'T haul cheap freight which is why my little company survives. My 3 hired drivers are well paid and happy. The tractors, 4 of which are on the road 5 days/week (the 5th is a backup), are well maintained and I've NEVER had a DOT violation of any kind. My drivers and I are all home on weekends unless we want to take extra work. There ARE still good companies around that actually try to help their people succeed. You just have to do some research.
This is a subject you should devote more videos to. This is the difference between going out of business and being profitable. If you cut the broker out, you can provide the same excellent service at even a cheaper price then the broker and net more profit. Network and build relationships. Great video
I need 3-5 loads a week from steel companies that only want to deal in volume. I get 90% from my carrier I’m leased to in order to have access to all the steel I want. Smart-trucking is used to booking 1 reefer load a week. Which is doable.
I’m a new broker and I understand the importance of paying the carriers. I will use this as a lesson so I know to be fair to my carriers and build relationships
We used to cross / dock in Toronto at a load broker's warehouse. When your doing LTL, every little bit of freight helped fill up the wagons. The problem was, how much % the load broker took. As far as I'm concerned 'Load Brokers" who solicit freight drive the rates down. What pissed me off was the everyday there was a new rate. Monday/ Tuesday rate was pitiful .. the rate finally started climbing Thursday / Friday when the load broker knew he might get stuck over the weekend. When I planned my schedule, it sucked to sit 2 days and then finally get the partial load ...Honestly.. when you're sitting 8 days a month on the road away from family all because a load broker wants to move freight for penny's ...life gets disheartening. I longed for the days when dispatch actually had a load waiting so I could turn and burn.
I'm long retired but I still hear of brokers trying to pay as low as 85 cents a mile. At $5 a gallon or more in some states that wont even buy fuel money to their destination. I hear some will haul such loads just to get home when they're ready.
Sounds good. But I have been knocking on doors for years to direct shippers and they have loads for a month or two and then say it is slow or have a company driver do it for cheaper with their equipment.
Its not that easy friends here . There is a reason why brokers are their…. If you take loads from manufacture to customer who pays for your trip back? Are you just gonna deadhead back? And how can you correlate manufacture ship schedule with receiver schedule and truck driver schedule so everyone is happy? Thats why there are brokers… to fill the gaps
CNBC saying there's a demand of for 1 million truckers and more and more freight pilling up at shipping yards. and the demand just keeps rising. u see there was a boom in the trucking industry during the 70's-90's with movies like smokey & the bandit, convoy, white line fever, high-ballin, over the top, black dog and tv shows like B.J Mckay etc,etc,etc. paving the way for people to make money in the delivery business aka trucking. but now there's no bandit & there's no truckers. so demand is high. and pay is good. so get out there and move the freight.
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Hey there Driver. We're so happy you've decided to take the time to drop by to check out today's upload.... a Premiere! Tell us about your experience with finding your own freight, if you're an independent trucker. Do you steer away from load brokers or have you nailed your own direct customers? Love to hear from you. 😎
I own 5 tractors (0 trailers) and they're leased to and run under the authority of, a local, regional company. Fortunately, all of my equipment is paid off so the only real overhead I have is fuel, maintenance, insurance and payroll (and of course the dreaded TAXES!).
I started as a part time fleet driver with this company 30 years ago and have grown my own company by working with them since then. They DON'T haul cheap freight which is why my little company survives. My 3 hired drivers are well paid and happy. The tractors, 4 of which are on the road 5 days/week (the 5th is a backup), are well maintained and I've NEVER had a DOT violation of any kind. My drivers and I are all home on weekends unless we want to take extra work.
There ARE still good companies around that actually try to help their people succeed. You just have to do some research.
This is a subject you should devote more videos to. This is the difference between going out of business and being profitable. If you cut the broker out, you can provide the same excellent service at even a cheaper price then the broker and net more profit. Network and build relationships. Great video
I need 3-5 loads a week from steel companies that only want to deal in volume. I get 90% from my carrier I’m leased to in order to have access to all the steel I want.
Smart-trucking is used to booking 1 reefer load a week. Which is doable.
Networking is everything!!
Screw load brokers!
I’m a new broker and I understand the importance of paying the carriers. I will use this as a lesson so I know to be fair to my carriers and build relationships
Here’s a cookie
🍪
What's your company name
Another suggestion for finding "direct shipper leads" ask any current direct shipper you may have for referrals.
that was a very helpful tip. thank you
We used to cross / dock in Toronto at a load broker's warehouse. When your doing LTL, every little bit of freight helped fill up the wagons. The problem was, how much % the load broker took. As far as I'm concerned 'Load Brokers" who solicit freight drive the rates down. What pissed me off was the everyday there was a new rate. Monday/ Tuesday rate was pitiful .. the rate finally started climbing Thursday / Friday when the load broker knew he might get stuck over the weekend. When I planned my schedule, it sucked to sit 2 days and then finally get the partial load ...Honestly.. when you're sitting 8 days a month on the road away from family all because a load broker wants to move freight for penny's ...life gets disheartening. I longed for the days when dispatch actually had a load waiting so I could turn and burn.
I'm long retired but I still hear of brokers trying to pay as low as 85 cents a mile. At $5 a gallon or more in some states that wont even buy fuel money to their destination. I hear some will haul such loads just to get home when they're ready.
Sounds good. But I have been knocking on doors for years to direct shippers and they have loads for a month or two and then say it is slow or have a company driver do it for cheaper with their equipment.
Load brokers should wear a mask because they're committing highway robbery and ripping off the carriers
It’s legal and it’s business.
Gotta learn to adapt when things change
Thank you for your support
I figure my cost of operation at 1.90 per mile without the driver. Of coarse that varies with fuel costs.
Wow! That's excellent information 👍🏾.
I'm jumping ship trying to get a job with my local DOT.
That’ll be great!
The problem is that it’s alot easier for shippers to go through brokers.
Awesome
I haven’t seen you live or I haven’t been getting notifications
Is the true is better to find small companies and work with them
Nice vid
That was helpful ty
Load broker only make 13 to 15% of what the carrier makes how ever i do understand not wanting to pay someone for something you can do your self
Its not that easy friends here . There is a reason why brokers are their…. If you take loads from manufacture to customer who pays for your trip back? Are you just gonna deadhead back? And how can you correlate manufacture ship schedule with receiver schedule and truck driver schedule so everyone is happy? Thats why there are brokers… to fill the gaps
Would UShip be classified as a load broker like DAT, Truck Stop, 123Loadboard, and Uber Freight?
1.30/mi?!? Who does that?
Hurricanes lease guys
Alright
RIP
CNBC saying there's a demand of for 1 million truckers and more and more freight pilling up at shipping yards. and the demand just keeps rising.
u see there was a boom in the trucking industry during the 70's-90's with movies like smokey & the bandit, convoy, white line fever, high-ballin, over the top, black dog and tv shows like B.J Mckay etc,etc,etc. paving the way for people to make money in the delivery business aka trucking.
but now there's no bandit & there's no truckers. so demand is high. and pay is good.
so get out there and move the freight.
Mark Mcguire 🚛