Independent Contractor or misclassification?

[rollincoal]

Uhm, agreeable to reason or sound judgement, logical, not excessive.

Reasonable to the one accepting the load offer. Excessive deadhead where you lose money, even though the rate is perfectly reasonable to the customer who wants their freight moved from A-to-B, and reasonable to the carrier, dispatchers and everyone else, is an unreasonable load offer, particularly if you get hit with a refusal over it.

Why do I get the feeling that the term cherry picker perked up your ears? Otherwise there'd be no need to ask for a definition of "reasonable" nor wonder aloud about who's reason I was talking about, since the context of my paragraph should have made that perfectly clear.

I'm a free agent. I can walk away from any deal I don't like and suffer zero consequences. My point was nothing to do with that. My point was even if you or I agree on what might be reasonable, they, meaning the ones not doing the actual work and paying for fuel/expenses, could really care less about your (contractor) deadhead miles. The only time most even consider being "reasonable" (to my way of thinking) is when they are in a bind and have no cheap hauler available.

 

[Turtle]

When they are in a bind and have no cheap hauler available, that's when they usually end up paying much higher than market rates.

 

[Moot]

Mine is more balanced. I show "0" for both.

When I log in under my owner's number I show 100% for both. I think Panther needs to improve the communication between it's two heads or have one head amputated. Clearly the left head doesn't know what the right head is doing and the right head isn't privy to what the other one is up to.

 

[rollincoal]

When they are in a bind and have no cheap hauler available, that's when they usually end up paying much higher than market rates.

"Market rates" are largely pathetic but just about everyone hauls for them. It gets asked of our office many times, why is this guy so much more???, and then it gets explained well that guy determines what he needs and that's how it is. That's an example of them thinking they are "reasonable" and me (or anyone else who puts a value on REAL service) thinking they are not when they ask a question like that. That is why I ask how it is even possible for FXCC to put "reasonable" prices on loads that make everyone happy and no contractors there will never turn down any load offer? It isn't possible.