The arrogance of lumber brokers in Western Canada

[Manitoba Moose]

I cannot believe the arrogance of these guys...
The worst culprit is Mid America.
They keep lowering the rates and laugh in your face.
Its the attitude they display like "what you gonna do about it" that's so frustrating.
And what pisses me off the most is they keep lowering the rates and these other dumb mother******'s trucking companies out here that pay their drivers mileage don't give a rat's ass cause it doesn't cost them a dime. It costs the driver all the money and when the driver goes broke, you see signs popping up "Driver's wanted".
GRRRRRRR.... I've looked and there is no icon for GRRRRRR...

 

[VicTaylor]

That's an easy fix.If you don't and everyone else didn't haul their freight then they would take their heads out of their asses and realize that they have to raise their rates to get trucks to haul their freight.

 

[Manitoba Moose]

We haven't hauled a load for who knows how long but they still manage to move them all....
I keep telling everyone I talk to NOT to take it. Run empty south if you have to. Its the only way to bring the rates up. But alas, who listens to me.
There is so little freight coming out of here and I guess the guys are hungry. What's frustrating is that for every cheap load they haul, they are just going bankrupt a little sooner. They just don't know it yet.

 

[Freight Broker]

Don't be so hard on the lumber people...the market is the market..why pay more when they apparently get their loads hauled for that? The attitude you observe isn't official policy...consider the source...mostly likely it s from a shipper who couldn't get a 1500 dollar car loan himself.