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<blockquote data-quote="bacha29" data-source="post: 5345155" data-attributes="member: 58386">The trucking business has hit hard times. Spot freight rates are nosediving. It&#039;s not just FXG.&nbsp; This is the nature of the business. For many years you and the others were raking it. Now, that it has hit hard times you don&#039;t know what to do. There&#039;s going to be another big shakeout just as it always is whenever the industry hits a difficult period and often for extended period of time. It would appear that Mr. Patton has also never had to deal with a near wholesale collapse of trucking rates and obviously he has way too much overhead and both fixed and variable costs needs to downsize but can&#039;t Now you guys all thought you were pretty good at this so Fat Freddy and Sahib Raj are going to challenge you to see how good you actually are. Of the 4 contractors at the small terminal I was at 1 was terminated late last week The other 3 are trying to hang on. Always the same old thing. Contractor rates and settlements are based on a contractor employed driver compensation package that&nbsp; is at best about 60-65% of what a UPS driver gets for doing the same work. That contractor had the same problem countless others have had. Couldn&#039;t find anybody willing to shoulder that UPS workload for that 60% deal. Those who tried found out quickly how badly they were getting hosed and walked off. Now you and Patton and the others keep carping about the need to keep the network operating. THAT&quot;S NOT YOUR PROBLEM!You task is to figure out how to survive in a transportation industry that is known to go down hard, fast and slow to recover.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bacha29, post: 5345155, member: 58386"] The trucking business has hit hard times. Spot freight rates are nosediving. It's not just FXG. This is the nature of the business. For many years you and the others were raking it. Now, that it has hit hard times you don't know what to do. There's going to be another big shakeout just as it always is whenever the industry hits a difficult period and often for extended period of time. It would appear that Mr. Patton has also never had to deal with a near wholesale collapse of trucking rates and obviously he has way too much overhead and both fixed and variable costs needs to downsize but can't Now you guys all thought you were pretty good at this so Fat Freddy and Sahib Raj are going to challenge you to see how good you actually are. Of the 4 contractors at the small terminal I was at 1 was terminated late last week The other 3 are trying to hang on. Always the same old thing. Contractor rates and settlements are based on a contractor employed driver compensation package that is at best about 60-65% of what a UPS driver gets for doing the same work. That contractor had the same problem countless others have had. Couldn't find anybody willing to shoulder that UPS workload for that 60% deal. Those who tried found out quickly how badly they were getting hosed and walked off. Now you and Patton and the others keep carping about the need to keep the network operating. THAT"S NOT YOUR PROBLEM! You task is to figure out how to survive in a transportation industry that is known to go down hard, fast and slow to recover. [/QUOTE]

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