Panther Squuezing fixed fsc??
- Thread starter hondaking38
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When it's off by less than a penny over or under that's ok but when it comes back .34 and the load was offered at .53 that's not right. A difference that great may mean the load would have been refused. A driver I know had a run quoted with 85 cents fuel. It was accepted on the theory the fsc was enough to d/h out of the CRUMMY destination. When it paid it only paid around 30 cents. The customer should have been held to paying the original amount or the company should have made up the difference.
Just think what they'd do if we said yes to one of the infamous R-M loads paying 489 loaded on a 541 mile run and at 489 parked and notified them our agreement to drive the 541 was only an estimate of how far we'd drive and we'd now determined the actual distance we'd drive and this was it.
Just think what they'd do if we said yes to one of the infamous R-M loads paying 489 loaded on a 541 mile run and at 489 parked and notified them our agreement to drive the 541 was only an estimate of how far we'd drive and we'd now determined the actual distance we'd drive and this was it.
Leo, I think you are on to something here. I like it!
Also a driver may accept a Rand McNally load knowing he/she will take a hit on the mileage, but the f.s.c. makes up for the mileage discrepancy. Then settlement time comes and you find you got the double whammy; clipped on the mileage and hosed on the f.s.c.
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What I find interesting is that this has over 1000 views.
We ALWAYS check the milage on a load before accepting.
We ask for a change right at that point. When they didn't change it we sometimes took them to get out of an area and several we turned down. As for the reduced FSC at billing, it usually evens out or once in a blue moon we get ahead.
But, make no mistake about it, we have gotten burned on a few of them. One thing I think Panther could improve on.
And no, the flat rate option wouldn't be the answer I would be looking for. Booking the load correctly in the first place would be my focus.
We ALWAYS check the milage on a load before accepting.
We ask for a change right at that point. When they didn't change it we sometimes took them to get out of an area and several we turned down. As for the reduced FSC at billing, it usually evens out or once in a blue moon we get ahead.
But, make no mistake about it, we have gotten burned on a few of them. One thing I think Panther could improve on.
And no, the flat rate option wouldn't be the answer I would be looking for. Booking the load correctly in the first place would be my focus.