Quote Originally Posted by RICHIWILLBE View Post
It sure is a tough business and yes, people want you to haul their freight for free by the time you add up all of the costs involved. We run specialized equipment and some of the rates people offer are no where near where they should be. Grossing 120,000 pounds, they think you should do it for a rate of $2.00 per mile, plus buy your permits out of that. I'll let them come take everything back before we run for that. I spot bid freight for the government and I swear the jerks that actually get the freight must be on something. $1.66 per mile to go across the country, plus buy all of the permits for the load. Shame on those people that don't have a clue.

Everyone that brokers freight should have to own a truck and see what it is like to have to scramble to pay the bills and eat every month. If I wasn't dispatching trucks that I don't own, we'd already be homeless.
This is exactly why total deregulation has not worked! The owner operators out there who think they can buy a truck and run freight for 67 cents a mile and still make a profit.

However, corporate powers still rules and undercuts freight so bad, it takes work away from people who must have rates in order to survive. Swift can operate on pennies profit as they have a huge fleet that supports the overall operation. The Owner Operator has usually, no more than one truck, and the small company does not have the power from the rates to support their equipment and keep it safe.

Congress is not on our side. They never have been and they never will be as they have to care for special interests and those who will get them re-elected.

When government has all American's totally dependent upon them for support, we will all be living from the scrapes from their tables.

Why? This is America; the land of Opportunity. There are many opportunities, but there is a $12 per month program that can produce great incomes for people with a little vision, ambition, and desire to do more than complain.

True American's don't complain; they get off their duffs and do something that matters.

Rich I will be Trucking? No on your life! Make it; spend it; never have enough!

To want change drivers must want to change! I don't see it happening.

You either ride the wind or you buck the wind and we sure have a lot of cowboys out there in this rodeo.