Ok, so we're relatively new. We don't know many of the ins and outs yet. So we come here to obtain valuable information and insight. Thank you for that.
We learn that you're supposed to know what a load pays, before you accept it.
We learn that, being a business, we're supposed to be able to make educated business decisions regarding our business, and some loads may not make good business sense, for us.
We learn that we should therefore, be able to turn down a load, if this is the case.
We also learn that turning down a load p*sses off the dispatchers, who've we've learned, it makes sense to please because otherwise, we won't necessarily be offered as many loads.
This is the weird thing. When getting offered a load, we don't know how much it pays. When we ask, 'how much does this load pay', they say, 'it's not rated yet'. And so, business decisions must be made without the pertinent information.
Further, it's supposed to be so much per mile; so, when being offered a load, altho dispatch might not know the actual 'rating', they presumably know how to figure out a calculation of: based on this many miles times this rate per mile, the load should pay this much. One time on a very long haul, the pay was half of that amount. And of course, there was no return load. So husb enquires, fills in the appropriate form, and 3 months after doing the run, we still don't have an answer. No response, still looking into it.
Further, you would expect that if you accept a load being picked up at the same place, and being delivered to the same place, it would be at least roughly the same pay. However, although this was the case, and although the second load, 2 months later, was triple the weight, the pay was substantially less the second time. Why? The second load did not have any fuel surcharge, and no 'international flat premium'.
On top of that, seeing as how the pay is semi-monthly, a person can be driving away, accepting loads for a full month, before knowing what the pay was. (Do a load on Feb.1st, doesn't get paid until Feb.29th, for example). So one could be accepting unprofitable loads, over and over, without knowing they are unprofitable.
We've heard that you take the bad with the good; we've heard the company doesn't necessarily like its OOs to make their own business decisions. So we've kept our mouths shut, for the most part, hoping that taking the bad will be rewarded with good.
Apparently these are not problems only being experienced by us within the company; drivers talk to one another sometimes
Have any of you experienced these types of things with your carriers?
We learn that you're supposed to know what a load pays, before you accept it.
We learn that, being a business, we're supposed to be able to make educated business decisions regarding our business, and some loads may not make good business sense, for us.
We learn that we should therefore, be able to turn down a load, if this is the case.
We also learn that turning down a load p*sses off the dispatchers, who've we've learned, it makes sense to please because otherwise, we won't necessarily be offered as many loads.
This is the weird thing. When getting offered a load, we don't know how much it pays. When we ask, 'how much does this load pay', they say, 'it's not rated yet'. And so, business decisions must be made without the pertinent information.
Further, it's supposed to be so much per mile; so, when being offered a load, altho dispatch might not know the actual 'rating', they presumably know how to figure out a calculation of: based on this many miles times this rate per mile, the load should pay this much. One time on a very long haul, the pay was half of that amount. And of course, there was no return load. So husb enquires, fills in the appropriate form, and 3 months after doing the run, we still don't have an answer. No response, still looking into it.
Further, you would expect that if you accept a load being picked up at the same place, and being delivered to the same place, it would be at least roughly the same pay. However, although this was the case, and although the second load, 2 months later, was triple the weight, the pay was substantially less the second time. Why? The second load did not have any fuel surcharge, and no 'international flat premium'.
On top of that, seeing as how the pay is semi-monthly, a person can be driving away, accepting loads for a full month, before knowing what the pay was. (Do a load on Feb.1st, doesn't get paid until Feb.29th, for example). So one could be accepting unprofitable loads, over and over, without knowing they are unprofitable.
We've heard that you take the bad with the good; we've heard the company doesn't necessarily like its OOs to make their own business decisions. So we've kept our mouths shut, for the most part, hoping that taking the bad will be rewarded with good.
Apparently these are not problems only being experienced by us within the company; drivers talk to one another sometimes
Have any of you experienced these types of things with your carriers?
