Cheap Grain around Sioux Falls SD

ya but this statement isn't just about grain.....this statement is for everywhere is just worse in some places rather then others

I think your statement is 100 percent justified. I took a load to sergeant bluff for agp in June. 1.70 per mile carrying 1100 bushels, with a 4 hour wait to unload, trucks lined up for a mile.
I will never do that again. At that time, basis was 1.45, that means there is $1.45 set asside per bushel to ship those soybeans. A tiny no name elevator will pay .42 to ship 180 miles and not complain, the big companies will pay .25 for 180 miles and everyone lines up to load

I know and I see mn trucks bounce to Colton to haul back to Fairmont or Brewster for .15 or .20 cents

Parked my trailers was going broke. Pulling a flatbed now, making moneynow. I think the brokers are doing ok, money wise and so are the big companies that have the contracts. I was told that the price of the commodity is down so I have to not make money.

I really doubt anyone told you that you have to not make money. I dont think there are many people that want their fellow americans to not make money. I also dont think its heresey to have the idea that hauling a product with a very thin profit margin is not profitable. I've been wrong plenty of times so i'm more than happy to have a discussion as to why i'm wrong this time too.

I guess an example would be, if your business hauls cars for car dealers....auto manufacturers figure out a way to make new cars at half price, twice as fast and they pass the savings on. after a year, everybody would have 5 new cars, every driveway would be full, every dealer lot packed full and new factories built to keep up with demand for building cars...once every americans driveway is full of 2corvettes and 4 f150's they will quit buying. new cars will be sitting everywhere, value of cars will drop due to no demand, then i would sure assume the price to haul those cars will drop because profit margin is tighter and because nobody needs the cars. kinda like conventional corn and soybeans. maybe im wrong and id be happy to hear why. but i learned quick that i dont make money moving grain

it's all supply and demand when you have large number of trucks available to haul these loads wanting to be home every night these shippers can dictate what they want to pay these trucks raises demand for trucks which raises rates when you have surplus of trucks it drops rates