Not hard to imagine at all. If there was any other answers carriers/brokers would be defending themselves on all social media.
If your referring to multiply loads.. I agree. I think its a good move. I could care less what they put on the truck, cookies,panties, or blu jeans,, Who cares. Instead we sit and wait on the auto plants/suppliers and mainly so they can stay in good grace/standings with them.. What we are hauling for is nearly the same price these guys are getting for partial loads.
Like any policy or rule they are made to be bent and twisted to suit the carrier .. Many a times what the customer does not know does not hurt him
If I'm reading this right and
The problem is that this kind of loads dont come with a premium pay.
pray fuel goes up,because when it does that basically paid for the entire trip and I could give my wife whats left and still have some for repairs now I have to take fuel out of the actual trip pay plus the surcharge.my wife says shes hungry because theres no money left over.
So in a sense your saying the trucks are subsidizing the vans with FSC. (I am assuming your in a van)
ya see in a van like mine with the high MPG....the formula they use is so outdated I far out run the formula and I too was profiting from the FSC....at these low prices of fuel I am for the first time having to actually take money from my pocket to pay....and the truck formula now a days is also obsolete....I believe the base is set at 7mpg...many straights beat that with at hands down these days....hence more profit....hence at some carriers there was a time that fleet drivers wanted to pay 100% of fuel as they made money off it....
I don't even think I can do that anymore and I'm not even 40 yet. I think being up for 15 hours and then taking an all-nighter is not safe. I used to do it all of the time before I got sick though. You have to have that expediter nap; and you can't get a nap in if you're staring at a computer screen all day.
If I'm reading this right and
I never met ya Murray but with statements like this and listening to some of your O/O is the reason I think you should expand off into some straights. You one of only a few guys here that when ya say you care it can be believed. No doubt you work for your people from what I know. With that said I can promise ya the headache of straights will only bring ya a little more grief..