If I wanted someone to do a deep dive on a carrier, who would I contact?

[tasuinam]

What??? What’s that again?.? Oh…..the pencil sharpener is acting up. It probably just needs emptying.

dang it - my tablet broke

 

[EricG]

dispatchers in the next few years:
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Its already here and in Ontario..... been here for a few years... a very very large portion (cant disclose %) of our shipments are dispatched via Machine/AI/Rulesets, Rarely push a button or click the mouse to send a driver anymore.

 

[MLCAR]

Explain this one to me :




dont need bot's for these rates lol

 

[GHSLI]

Woww!!! That's crazy. Do they actually accept these rates?

 

[MLCAR]

I guess so the auctions closed and I never see the lanes pop up again. Like I said Jeff Bezos is on track to be a Trillionaire off these rates LOL

 

[LrgCar]

Explain this one to me :
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dont need bot's for these rates lol

Better net profit doing uber eats. Some folks have no business being in trucking.

 

[Igor Galanter]

I won't be surprised if there is a humongous kick back for those lanes, eh..

 

[Jim L]

Explain this one to me :
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dont need bot's for these rates lol

Maybe the rates are being supported by the stuff falling off the truck.

 

[MLCAR]

the FSC on those lanes are higher than the award rate, plus one of them is a "LIVE OFFLOAD" and its contract for 7 months. Even with electric trucks and autonomous AI drivers those rates don't make sense let alone sustainable for 7 months. Someone either has deep pockets or just extremely stupid, I'm leaning on the latter.

 

[Igor Galanter]

And actually it went to the point to use a decimal in order to win, eh..
So, the bidder was very, and I mean very particular in his numbers.
There is a chance he won just by penny.
What a tragedy for the company who bid $23.23

 

[GHSLI]

Is it really a "win" if you are betting pennies on the dollar? There's got to be something else behind this.

 

[loaders]

Seriously! Who quotes rates that low? You can’t even start a truck for rates like that, let alone run them down the road with a live driver holding the wheel. What am I missing?

 

[MLCAR]

What am I missing?

when you find out let me know lol I am lost with these ones. and this isnt the first time I'ev seen rates like this with Amazon either.

 

[loaders]

We don’t get involved in any of this “auction” type freight, nor do we do anything directly for Amazon, so to see numbers like these are mind blowing to say the least. One has to wonder, who is more naive, the person bidding or the company accepting the bid?

 

[Chica]

Do these carriers get vetted, or is there a chance this is now organized crime creating fake companies and placing ridiculous bids in order to get the freight and make away with it? Anything is possible these days...

 

[JACKBURTON]

Seriously! Who quotes rates that low? You can’t even start a truck for rates like that, let alone run them down the road with a live driver holding the wheel. What am I missing?

Every 10th trailer disappears maybe.

 

[Mario]

We don't do work for Amazon but from what I am hearing they are paying around $50 - $55 hr to pull their trailers locally. So maybe they figure Bolton to Hamilton takes 1 hr so $55.00. Don't know if I am right or not.

 

[YYZRIDER]

the FSC on those lanes are higher than the award rate, plus one of them is a "LIVE OFFLOAD" and its contract for 7 months. Even with electric trucks and autonomous AI drivers those rates don't make sense let alone sustainable for 7 months. Someone either has deep pockets or just extremely stupid, I'm leaning on the latter.

Deep Pocket ones wouldnt be in Transportation or I should would not make such a silly move / must be extremely stupid !!

 

[YYZRIDER]

We don’t get involved in any of this “auction” type freight, nor do we do anything directly for Amazon, so to see numbers like these are mind blowing to say the least. One has to wonder, who is more naive, the person bidding or the company accepting the bid?

Whatever or whoever.. Mr Bezos dont care at all

 

[MLCAR]

Deep Pocket ones wouldnt be in Transportation or I should would not make such a silly move / must be extremely stupid !!

I know a few larger carriers that pulled this stunt, Relay works on a score system for carrier performance. Better your score better loads and higher volumes. To get themselves on the board, they went hella cheap and rode it out for a few months to get into a higher tier. The Key being it was for a few months (3 months if memory serves me correct). So deep pockets needed to be running at a loss for that long but cant argue with it since the end result worked out for them. BUT these rates are more than just "cheap".