Playing by the rules

Great point. Because the shipper's work comp will pay claims in almost all states.

While claims are the issue everyone will discuss, the most impactful issue is when the shippers work comp carrier finds there is no work comp coverage in place for the undercutting trucker THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO ADD THE UNDERCUTTING TRUCKERS DRIVER PAYROLL TO THE SHIPPERS WORK COMP PAYROLL FIGURES AND CHARGE A PREMIUM.

While there are those who will question this, most of my adult life I was in the commercial insurance industry. This is a general statement but will ring true in most cases.

The sad fact of the matter is nobody really seems to care about customer service. It's all about dollars and cents. My guess is when you started hauling for other customers you left your primary customer without a truck from time to time? Somehow I doubt your customer is letting your competitor run his/her trailer for free. Your competitor is just running cheap enough to pay trailer rent... Over the past year I've seen rates get soft, demanding more money often times means losing the work all together. If you're competitor doesn't want to play by the rules set by the government, he will eventually get caught.

Your customer does not care about your costs they care about moving their cargo as cheap as possible, we used to move very expensive cargo for GE then the cheapo trucker came along and cut the rates big time and of course the damage claims went up, I asked the GE rep. how they could afford all the down time and cargo claims his responce was when all said and done the insurance pay out and and lower rate they still were better off than us with no claims ?? my responce was have a great day later they did come back and offer us work at our rate but we found something better and we blew them off they finally ended up sending the work to Europe and the El Cheapo trucker went bankrupt we are still here, you are not a slave your truck does not care what it hauls go find other work that pays better it's there you just have to do your homework, I find it hard to believe you guys haul one thing and you will go down the drain trying to haul that one thing when there is a world shippers out always looking a good operator and the rate is not as important as qaulity work, take the blinders off.

Yellow iron is a joke always been cheap always will be old saying, crawl on crawl off cheap, crane load crane unload pays better your still not looking at the big picture your still looking at what every one else does, find out what moves but is a real pain in the butt go do it and make $$

I do know that he runs the trailer rent free. It was offered back to me rent free, as well. That doesn't help that I already have $5000/ month in trailer payments plus insurance. As far as him eventually getting caught, that is one fate that could easily befall him, of many. His trucks aren't well maintained, his employees aren't well trained or experienced. It's just while I am waiting for his foolishness to catch up to him, we are losing loads.

Thanks Mike. LOL. It's usually the clowns putting red noses on other people and pointing. Thanks for sticking up for me. I know a troll when I see one.

Your professionalism in this industry leads MUCH TO BE DESIRED especially since you are NOT hurting my feeling with your post which is completely ignorant and you have no idea about his operation. You are entitled to your opinion, but the showing of ignorance is what is so funny about the post as I am pretty certain he did not say "I'm going to use the government to rid my competition of a job." As Mark Twain and Abe Lincoln once said: "It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid, then to open it and remove all doubt." Next time you want to be a keyboard warrior, I highly suggest your read what President Lincoln said before posting and utilize his advice as it would serve you very well use it as it seems to me that the "two cents" you mention above might just be a little too high in value.