Why folks think truckers are stupid and idiotic

I agree! The problem we have at the moment is fools (carriers & brokers) that saw dollar signs during the pandemic flooded the trucking market. These people had no business getting involved, and now we are all paying the price.

Some of this problem is lack of education & experience in commodity density, location wait times, and the general ebb & flow of commodities by region and season compared to van freight. For example, I got an email from a broker this morning about a load of beet shreds going from the thumb of Michigan to North Carolina. The southeast is a bit of a dead zone for commodities coming back to the Midwest... I emailed him back that I may be interested in the load.... He quickly responded by saying he had the load covered for $76 a ton..... Since most guys would be lucky to get 20 tons of shreds (heaped) on a load, that makes that load $2.24 a loaded mile.... I emailed him back saying I would need $150 a ton (almost double) on my belt trailer.... Just say no to cheap freight.

Ok, so go to McDonalds then. You just said you can make more money there, so what is stopping you? Good Luck.

And there u have one of the cheap a** fool's u described...must hit a nerve there.i done some lookin back on this site ...every commentu make..favors these cheap rate cuttin bastards.. may be u should work a t McDonald's..that wa.

IF truckers would unite and as you say F--- those low rates and high fuel prices

WHen you talk about shutting down guys say oh I cant do that i need to make my payment

If you are that close to making a payment you might as give up cuz you are probably not going to make it anyway

Really if you just shut it down for one day aweek both stop delivery's and buy NO fuel one day a week

I'm pretty sure you would see fuel come down and rates start going up

The other is all companies need to put trucks wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy higher on their protities list when it comes to loading and unloading

If you are open at 7 have things tready to go at 7 not 730 or 8 dont order more trucks than you can load in a reasonable time

I sat an hour and half at a place last week the old F------ took an hour and half to load 1 truck some of it not his fault he was the only there

So the company needs to hire to help . The place where it was going only unloaded until 2 and it was only like 2 1/2 hrs away so at his rate of loading

not many trucks could load cuz he quit loading at 1-2 . after waiting an hr and 1/2 I backed in a little sooner than he wanted and came up and started bitching like an old crabby F----- that he was ,I told him I dint get paid to listen to his s*** and left empty ,f*** him and his company i was just stopping to get little extra money on the way rather the dead heading ,I m not a career driver , heavy equipment operator in the summer , hopper is just a winter gig for me , Nobody talks to me like that over something so trival , but any way there is NO respect for drivers what so ever out there ,grow a set and stick up for your self both for money and time and this stupid s*** waiting a month to get paid is another crock a s*** ,you go work for your money then some factor MFER sits on there a** and wants 2-3% to take the money you worked for how f****** stupid is that ,wake up guys and unite and get some respect truckers could pull wayyyyyy more weight than the NRA if the would unite , and it applies to O/O and drivers a like ,I pull a belly dump in the summer time in the arrowhead of Mn and we get paid by the the hour 115-150 hr depending on who you work for and how reliable you are that good money ,when we sit we are on the clock !!!! . I could go on and on but wise up and get what you desreve oh just one point back to waiting 30 days to get paid I dont believe there is another business or job that gets paid once a month for chirst sake , fuel is 10k a month !!!!!!!!!

Oh but there is some loyalty. They expect some value.