aceptence rateing

[poison]

I have a question concerning load percentages.as of right now our acceptance rating is setting at 67% according to panther website. our
percentages across the board are usually almost 100% across the board.
now our acceptance is way down.this is do to nothing more then doing what the truck owner suggest for us to do. we are leaving this truck owner at the end of this week.what my question is if we are only doing
what the truck owner suggest we do and with us telling dispatchers every
time we talk to them that we are doing, what we are doing, per the truck owner how can panther or should I ask will panther still use this low
percentage acceptance against us toward dispatching us on a load even if
we were #1 on the board?would they still dispatch around us to give it to #2 on the board because their acceptance rating is higher?




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[LDB]

Regardless of who decides to decline it's still a refusal. Whether they dispatch around you is open to debate but it boils down to a refusal.

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[miguy1957]

Acceptence percentages is a non issue with me. If the load makes me enough profit Ill take it, If not Ill turn it down. period. Why would anyone take a money losing load just to keep percentage up? If its a crappy load let them dispatch around me. If dispatch was wise and 2 trucks are sitting and 1 has 100% and 1 has 65% and a crappy load comes up and I was in dispatch I would give it to the 100% guy, but if a good load came up Id give it to the 65% guy because you know what ever came along next you could get it covered with the 100% guy, But thats useing lodgic and we all know dispachers are real smart..............

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[arrbsthw]

I can see how you think the way you do. If I were dispatching
and had a really good paying load coming up and it was between
you at 65% acceptance rate and the 100% acceptance rate person, the
100% person would get the load..because they take the loads that
may be offered where you turn down most of your load offers.
Someone has to take the loads ..they are not all GRAVY loads.
After all, everybody doesn't get offered the $2.00 -$1.50 per mile
loads for every load. Just my opinion

 

[miguy1957]

Your right someone has to take the unprofitable loads .........but It wont be me. So if you were the dispatcher you would get the good load covered but not the crappy one. If you did it the other way around you would get both loads covered and the carrier would make more $$$$$$$$$ So if you were the supervisor which dispatcher is the companys better asset????? business is business......

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[arrbsthw]

LOL ..that may be true but then again, if your name came up on
my screen again, you may not get a load at all. You may be one of
the ones that wait 4 days for a load..

 

[silverdollar]

Who do you blame for there being such a thing as an unprofitable load?

 

[miguy1957]

Oh maybe thats the problem dispathers taking things personally and being vendictive, Instead of using buiness sence to maximizing the use of the trucks.......lol

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[miguy1957]

I blame nobody for the unprofitible load. But deadhead 40mi to do a 50-100 mi load and have to dh 50-100 mi back to a area because you are not near any customers, gross $100 spend 40-50 in fuel and take 3-6 hours doing it plus wear and tear on you truck and being unavable for that 3-6 hours in the middle of the afternoon how much did you make?? was it worth it?? If you are with a large carrier they know they will find someone that didnt run the numbers to take it.

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[Tennesseahawk]

Do you actually expect someone to use business sense when their job is flipping burgers (covering loads)?

I should say that some do... covering loads, not flipping burgers. But I'm sure some have while flipping burgers... and that's why she's the ceo of McD's. Just don't count on it.

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[Moot]

The only Panther numbers that are of concern to me are On-Time % and Safety.

 

[easyrider2697]

>After all, everybody doesn't get offered the $2.00 -$1.50
>per mile
>loads for every load. Just my opinion



In the time I have been there, since the con-way buyout, I have never once been offered a load that did not pay my contracted rate, which is in between the aformentioned amounts, no matter what size load it was and I am a tractor

 

[bamamule]

boy this seams old right now 100 all the way across not saying it might change tommrow
but we did a good bussness at panther fustrated at times then started reading eo listened to a lot profes then tryed lost our buts now read EO and laugh
somethings we take to heart but most let go
running around 3000 a week 500 to 750 dh
doing minies, favors,and we realy need your help on this one
not saying you need to run like us
bamamule don't kiss no backsides
but is polite with them and they polite back
have a nice day

 

[Broompilot]

Its only a % cause it equals a GUILT TRIP on the owner or drivers.

Think they any company can accept a Guilt Trip cause you do not have enough $ to make there insurance payment or truck payment cause all your $ went to covering break even loads. Like the truck and your time are not worth anything?

They have only independents in this industry for a reason. Think of the two above statments, your time is worthless to them, absolutly worthless. So your % should not reflect an opinion you judge yourself by.

Run profitable, be smart, smarter than there % game.

P.S. I know of only one company that supplies the Trucks but its still all Indpendant Contractors so the time factor still is in effect its your time you live once and once only use it wisley, time that is.

 

[JoeMP2]

Broompilot
I am with ya all the way on what accepance rating really is and its improper use. It is an excellent indication of the quality of load offers one is receiving and says little or nothing about drivers. Yet it makes an excellent tool for those with a vindictive or spiteful streak to psychologically beat drivers into submission. I have basically ignored this rating system for six years and judge each load offer on its own merits. I am not an intra-city courier. I don't understand a heavy-handed approach that is big on penalties and light on rewards.

 

[ATeam]

It's interesting about acceptance ratings. At FedEx, if your acceptance percentage is 70% or more, you will be eligible for their Four Star award (other critera also apply). There are not many jobs where you can say no thirty percent of the time and still have a job.

 

[Tennesseahawk]

Umm... that's because most places you are not the company.

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[davekc]

I would say you are right Hawk. 70 percent of what? Acceptance percentages have no value. We look at specific runs to determine their profitability. If 7 out of ten are good, then we are at 70 percent. If 7 runs are poor out of ten, well....that is pretty low.
If we were to run 7 poor runs, then we are not making wise business decisions. The only place they might have a value is if it is a small carrier. I don't think they are significant with the larger ones.

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