Florida freight , what's up with that

Kind of funny I heard that is the new $2 a mile freight coming out of Florida. And brokers don't care take it or leave it they have plenty of idiots lined up

Because once in Florida, the only way to go is North. They know that most carriers can't afford to deadhead out of FL, so they have no other option than to take $1/mile out of FL to cover their fuel expense until they can get to a better area.

We've been dead heading to GA. Would rather eat the $100-200 to get out then haul freight that doesn't cover our minimums.

When did Florida flat loads ever pay anything worth thinking about. My round trip money line starts at I 70 if I'm goin south with my hopper.

I've tried talking to a few of them, very few speak fluent english. I have done this 23 years and can tell you when I go to a shipper/receiver I am always the minority. Van loads are the worse.

I have stated it many times Forida is a consumer state. They produce very little outside of produce itself, they import and export. Just like all other areas of the country and the world the consumers are usually the cheapest when it comes to wanting to pay for things. To make it work in those areas you have to charge almost twice as much to go in because they don't want to pay you to come out. I think the whole thing is kind of ridiculous to say the least. I don't even think you could haul freight with a mule and wagon for $.50 - $1 per mile, let alone use a tractor trailer to do so. The brokers and shippers don't care if you go broke, they know that within 6 months there will be a new group of individuals that will start the cycle all over again.

Just think about it, each downturn creates the opportunity for that company driver to buy a bargin truck, get their own authority, get out here and run their fool head off for those great cheap rates. Truck get repoed, government gets their guranteed tax money (fuel taxes, UCR, Heavy Use Tax, Base Plates) they don't care if you make it or not. It just continues to be a vicious cycle over and over again. Just when we all feel the rates are getting back to where they should be it starts all over again.

Pretty good tactic if you ask me, let all the truckers feel like they can make it, then yank the rug out from under them, keep telling all the truckers that they can make it by taking the cheap loads and just do more miles, yank the rug out from under them by regulations, tell the truckers that fuel is now cheaper and therefor rates need to be cheaper, but they can still make it (run more miles), yank the rug out from under them by lowering the rates by more then double of what the fuel cost was. I could keep on with this but in the end nobody really cares. It basically is a trucker eat trucker, broker eat trucker, shipper eat trucker world out there. Wonder what everybody is going to do when there are no truckers to eat? Guess a lot of people will learn how to go hungry just like the trucker is right now.

If my truck is destined to lose money, it will either sit or run empty. There's no reason to operate for substandard rates to benefit another company. The power of no needs to be rediscovered. Let's stand up and take the hit together!

That's no worse than the brokers here in Missouri wanting us to haul beans and corn today for a $1.05 per mile what a joke. Ain't our fault that they could not bid the stuff correctly and rather than lose money on the market end, they want to break it off in our ass so we loose money and not them. Whatever