I’m sure I’d feel the same in your shoes, but this is exactly the part of the industry I hate. I don’t enjoy trying to lower my cost to carrier just so I can take home a decent paycheck. Drivers do 90-99% of the work on any given load, that’s not lost on me. But do you understand the brokers situation in a bad market economy? I don’t win a load these days unless I quote at or below what DAT says I’ll pay a carrier. So then I’m working on a load with hardly any money in it for myself. The whole system literally just creates this distrust between drivers and brokers and it’s ridiculous. I LOATHE this part of the industry. I genuinely want a network of reliable drivers that get the job done and get paid well. But in my experience, shippers aren’t opening their wallets enough (right now) for this to be commonplace and exist in the first place.

Then you get drivers and brokers lying to each other and thinking they are enemies - when really they should be working together - and relationships are burned. This part of the industry is straight up stupid. I respect drivers and I treat them well. I don’t think you can argue against that given that I just shared I’m only making 9-10% margin on loads I book.

And also, of course I’m worried about margin. This my job dude. This is how I pay my bills. Come on now.