Logistics Management

July is here. Federal Highway Use Taxes are due and July will be the month of MASSIVE trucking failures. The industry knows who is taking advantage of truckers during the tight economy they have had to suck it up but have been taking notes. There will be great joy to the survivors in trucking as they watch your cheap freight rot on your docks. YOU CHEAP BROKERS AND SHIPPERS YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE.

It doesn't really matter who is the head of our country and sells our jewels or comes home with them in their hands, like Bush did with the Saudia Arabia king in OIL. Our government is owned by the bankers. Bigger people are in charge and it isn't our government. I hate to tell the general public and truckers/small businesses....YOU AIN'T INVITED!! A perfect example that the heads in government could do is look right here. Right at trucking, how a corporate socialist system with big bankers works. I am on a trucking forum and push for truckers and refuse to back down, especially with THE BANKERS....BIG BROKERAGES ARE NO MORE THAN BIG BANKERS. They are what the Federal Reserve is to government and they are in charge. They are controlled by the shippers and their market is this: How can I save my customer money, and no thought on what the truck needs. They are non-asset based companies, and they are possibly exceeding their own customers revenue. They are the TQL's, the CHR, and the Landstars. They inflate our markets by their non skills of truly watching MARKETS, watching markets is not how many trucks are in one area vs another area, it isn't in a backhaul. So their profits rise as they take more, based on how many trucks are available and how many are not available, creating INFLATION TO TRUCKERS and bam your out of business. The sad part is this it effects everyone, and it especially effects the smaller carriers. They have minimal regulation if any and according to the FMCSA they are "Arrangers" but in the next breathe they will tell carriers, "Don't use us if you can't afford us." Excuse me: Your job is a "arranger" of freight to bring shippers/carriers together, not negotiate your wage out of us. How much you big bankers can keep. Brokers need a cap, a transparent cap!! The worst business decision truckers ever did was allow them into THEIR BANKING! We do not need to be babysat in our own finances, and we the brokers out of the loop as the "Conduit" of guess what?? OUR FUNDS!!! This is the outcome of corporate socialism. The industry calls this "Thinning of the herd" and pretends that it is done for others survival. If a trucker can only justify getting a better rate by fellow truckers falling, thats a shame and it also on the other side is the greatest talk and scam in the world. Truckers/Companies when that truck key is put in that ignition, the payroll truck starts, if you are not making any money, you better throw away the key, as ya just threw away you business to a shipper and a big banking broker. I call it no negotiation on brokers part, and cheap shippers who are preserving their wealth and just want a cheap truck. Brokers get it best the revenue by ripping off the shippers/carriers by having the ability to play two sides to a coin under a iron curtain of SECRECY....Carriers do not say anything or STAND UP, because FEAR! Sound familiar? Congress changed votes on the bailout out of what? FEAR! Everything that is going on in government is parellel to trucking. A broker wrote on forum how she is not making it and can't get any freight. My response is below why: Corporate Socialism: Trucker girl I am sorry to hear this.....But trucking should truly be a example to show the world, how pure corporate socialism works. You are most likely feeling the effects of truckers using the big bankers, as times are tough for everyone and they at least know they will be paid timely to preserve their own livlihood and not be pickled. In this mess we will see lots of smaller brokerages fail right along with smaller independents (we are seeing this) as it shifts wealth to one side of this industry. It is truly not hard to grasp we only need to look at our biggest economic infastructure.....TRUCKING! The shifting of wealth in banking is being shifted to where? To the big bankers the big brokerages, which creates them to monopolize a market, control the movement of freight, POWER BEYOND POWER, manipulation of wealth to their own back pockets, something that deregulation was suppose to not create. This is why we see 50% rise to the big brokerage bankers TQL and growth at rapid speeds verses little growth to the small fish in the sea. We saw this before fuel increased and during the crisis. The proof is in numbers and profits where the profit goes and to who? Even in a fuel crisis, profits rose to big brokerage bankers and fallen profits to all the little guys, and small trucking companies. Large companies as well. I wouldn't blame carriers, or smaller brokers....but blame the emperors shippers/receivers who also become comfortable with the big bankers and then capitalization shifts to one side in this industry. I know you can call cusotmers, and they will say...."Well we've been using so and so big banking brokerage and we are happy, click on the phone." ITS A SCREWED UP SYSTEM. Carriers/Truckers giving away their rights to the big bankers, if they held onto being paid NOW by the shippers, the wealth would be shared with everyone. It would force shippers to look at everyone, and allow many smaller carriers to negotiate out here instead of no negotiation. Corporate Socialism will create many smaller truckers to fall, as well as smaller brokerages, as it creates Power shifted to the wealthy, and little power to other brokers trying to acquire accounts, and truckers trying to negotiate a rate. It keeps the emperors in charge who are the shippers/receivers....It also shifts the power to your own competition...BIG BROKERAGES, who perhaps are more competive to your own service and payroll than the truckers actually are. Your own survival. We are seeing this, and we see it in numbers. We feel it, and most truckers appreciate the small guys over the big guys. The big guys are non-asset based and putting all the profits in their back pocket. What they can keep, and carriers banking on their honesty..That is a joke my friends. Emotions, assuming everyone is honest in a good faith for nothing system, come to my tea party, lets have potato salad and hot dogs, that doesn't belong in business. Its cushiness to get right in your back pocket. Smoochie woo woo, while they also let you kiss their bum at the the same time. Lets get real, this is business. It has nothing to do with taking some good faith system and bringing honesty and ethics into it. Proof works great, transparency works even better. The truckers should have never given up their rights in contract to brokers or to companies or to shippers, and one of those rights should have been paid directly by the shippers/receivers upon the load being delivered, and disperse the wealth, as trucking is a billion dollar industry. They should have demanded transparency, demanded accountability, and demanded that a good faith system be abolished. Good faith of what?? Going broke? Going broke over others who have no assets competing with your customers and p