Apply Now!

Looking to bring a cargo van on with a carrier.

M

mikefl

Active Expediter
This seems like it is a real back stabbing business with expediting. It seems like my old company I was in before I had to close the doors on it. In the market that I am in they were 2 companies doing what I was bringing in to do. I went from 1 truck to 6 trucks in less than 1 1/2 years. then all of a sudden 10 more companies popped up. Lowered the price of the services we was offering. The 3 of us was real close and now the 3 of us are all closed because of these cheap price throwing (******) well you know what I am saying.

I have also been looking at some straights because of what all of you guys post look like. From what I can read the CV and sprinter world is over populated and the average miles per week for a CV or sprinter is only running about 1000-1500. I do not know how you guys are running on that. One company I spoke with not mentioning any names but they was telling me with a team in a CV they will run non stop for 2000-3000 average but that was a recruiter for the company.
 
OntarioVanMan

OntarioVanMan

Retired Expediter
Owner/Operator
xiggi said:
Really, that is rather ironic. You had no problem welcoming people who compete with us directly if it put a bonus in your pocket. :)

Companies are going to put on x number of vans for x amount of freight. If not the op it will be someone else. The only thing that'll create enough shortage of vans to increase rates any real amount is a drastic increase in freight combined with a large drop in the unemployment rate.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I717 using EO Forums
Click to expand...

no matter which way you want to present it, Xiggi....yours sounds good too....we need less in our class....
 
OntarioVanMan

OntarioVanMan

Retired Expediter
Owner/Operator
mikefl said:
This seems like it is a real back stabbing business with expediting. It seems like my old company I was in before I had to close the doors on it. In the market that I am in they were 2 companies doing what I was bringing in to do. I went from 1 truck to 6 trucks in less than 1 1/2 years. then all of a sudden 10 more companies popped up. Lowered the price of the services we was offering. The 3 of us was real close and now the 3 of us are all closed because of these cheap price throwing (******) well you know what I am saying.

I have also been looking at some straights because of what all of you guys post look like. From what I can read the CV and sprinter world is over populated and the average miles per week for a CV or sprinter is only running about 1000-1500. I do not know how you guys are running on that. One company I spoke with not mentioning any names but they was telling me with a team in a CV they will run non stop for 2000-3000 average but that was a recruiter for the company.
Click to expand...

the recruiter wasn't far off the mark...when it was my wife and I, Carrier X for the most part kept us rolling....
 
OntarioVanMan

OntarioVanMan

Retired Expediter
Owner/Operator
blizzard said:
Hazmat just got paid 200 bucks flat for a 98 mile run that he moved for us. Load One you better watch out. I am going to be like the trinity of expedite. 1. I will pay like Load One does. 2. I will be younger then Barrett Directline Delivery Services. 3. I will be more hip than C&M Transport! The only problem that I currently have is that I can't play golf worth a darn.

I'm just ruffling some feathers here. I am learning a lot about this business by watching the way the successful carriers operate and how they treat their drivers. I do agree too that the average rates are much lower than what some people get paid. I try and pay higher even though we don't make a lot of money on some of these loads. I just paid a guy 85 percent on a load because he is a good driver. That is 5 percent higher than my standard 80 percent.

There are no numbers games here. I take the calculater and divide the entire billed amount by 80 percent and that is what the driver gets. There are times when I wish I paid the straight .85 cents per mile because I loose money. But you have to realize that the drivers do all of the work and put up a lot of investment be on the road. Making more money off the backs of the hard working drivers is not always the best way to come up. It's all about partnership!
Click to expand...

Bliz....try $268 for a 18 mile load just the other night....you are almost there....yanking your chain back....LOL

BTW you and John could be partners...he doesn't like golf either....LOL
 
Turtle

Turtle

Administrator
Staff member
Retired Expediter
mikefl said:
I have also been looking at some straights because of what all of you guys post look like.
Click to expand...
I don't blame you. The cargo van and Sprinter guys who post here tend to be pretty rough looking. Except ebsprintin and xiggi, of course, they're pretty boys.
 
M

mikefl

Active Expediter
Turtle said:
I don't blame you. The cargo van and Sprinter guys who post here tend to be pretty rough looking. Except ebsprintin and xiggi, of course, they're pretty boys.
Click to expand...

LOL! Not the way they look some of the things they say look.
 
M

mikefl

Active Expediter
No I have only met one cv driver and he was pretty rough. He was setting at pilot in Fl. Waiting for 3 days for a load.

Sent from my Nexus S 4G using EO Forums
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top