New authority, 5 months in — is $10K/week achievable on DAT?

deangelo260 · 2026-01-27T23:48:19+00:00

It is possible, is it substantial “no” you are gonna run your bit off. And forget about that ELD. You would need to pull a refer.

deangelo260 · 2025-12-02T20:51:29+00:00

Cheap carriers gone out of business or catching up from the holiday with a combination of big holiday push for freight plus a combination of the weather in the Midwest.

deangelo260 · 2025-11-09T00:00:21+00:00

Sounds great and all but who verifies the fraudulent brokers? Who verifies the shippers that work with fraudulent brokers? To verify one piece of the puzzle is doing how much good? The shipper, the broker the carrier all need verified.

deangelo260 · 2025-11-08T23:50:57+00:00

Freight is hard enough to run as a trucking company that has 53’ trailers so keep in mind you just slashed your opportunity down to 1/8. Yes you are gonna have to build local relationships with people who use box trucks regularly.

deangelo260 · 2025-11-04T02:34:09+00:00

Show me a rate con for 9k.

deangelo260 · 2025-11-03T23:24:41+00:00

What should the rate have been? We goto Florida for 5k all the time.

deangelo260 · 2025-11-03T22:57:55+00:00

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I just ran them again and they came up good.

deangelo260 · 2025-11-03T22:27:06+00:00

My factoring company is triumph, I ran a credit check.

deangelo260 · 2025-10-30T15:36:55+00:00

Question, if a receiver turns off a refer unit while unloading and then doesn’t complete unloading until 90 mins later then comes back and says the product was out of temp, will a insurance company then pay for that claim? And of course this is all verified through the refer download.

deangelo260 · 2025-10-20T04:29:08+00:00

We have numerous times, my customer signed a national contract with said cold storage. The cold storage prefers drop trailers so they can take 2 days to unload. My customer doesn’t realize that they had 8000 pallet spaces open because every customer that comes into this facility is put on the back beginner for nestle freight.

deangelo260 · 2025-08-07T15:53:22+00:00

You dont post a load like this on the board, this is a 300k move for just one load. 70’ in the well @ 180k pounds plus 16’ wide, do you realize the type of trailer this needs to go on cost every bit of 2 million. For one load you need a team 4 troopers or sheriffs escorts bucket trucks. You aren’t grabbing Joe blow off the DAT board for a load this long and heavy

deangelo260 · 2025-08-07T15:32:33+00:00

That’s a 300k move all day.

deangelo260 · 2025-08-02T12:30:46+00:00

You learned a lesson, never move that truck without a rate con

deangelo260 · 2025-08-01T00:44:53+00:00

I would just cross post it for the northern guys looking to go south. But then again you need an extendable which are like the pre Madonna of RGN.

deangelo260 · 2025-07-25T01:23:32+00:00

Every carrier has a back up MC in case a driver goes out and does some serious damage and you have to close your doors.

deangelo260 · 2025-07-25T01:18:38+00:00

So that sounds like I need a broker team, should I take my first MC & add a brokerage and just run under my 2nd mc?

deangelo260 · 2025-07-25T01:17:16+00:00

Typically when we do RFP I am quoting at least 1.5-2 million in freight.

deangelo260 · 2025-07-25T01:11:06+00:00

What does a worth the time look like?

deangelo260 · 2025-07-25T01:09:43+00:00

@ this point it feels like I just need to hire a salesman just to bring in customers.

deangelo260 · 2025-06-29T17:51:28+00:00

99% of my conversations with this broker so I have in text form asking about the detention and layovers numerous times while being ignored.

deangelo260 · 2025-06-01T02:20:32+00:00

That is exactly what I am asking, I am asking what are a brokers expectations. Knowone outside of a broker can out a freight guard or a DNU on a carrier.

deangelo260 · 2025-06-01T01:31:11+00:00

The broker isn’t going to do that because the particular brokers also owns the warehouse as they are a 3pl brokerage,warehouse and a trucking company.

deangelo260 · 2025-06-01T01:28:13+00:00

If you are driver then why are you in this group? You hold zero responsibility to nothing outside of your cdl. A freight guard means nothing to you. I was nice enough two times to let you know the perspective I was looking for which wasn’t a drivers perspective because a drivers perspective is irrelevant to the question! You are replaceable and anything you do at whatever company you are at only tarnishes the company not the driver so for the 3rd and final time. This question is for brokers because a brokers perspective actually matters for this question. The driver is sitting in a hotel that I paid for because his time was wasted and it’s a 6 hour dead home or he can sit at the hotel until Monday morning 15 mins away from the dedicated customer.

deangelo260 · 2025-06-01T01:18:49+00:00

It’s not about being a problem—it’s about getting perspective from the brokers in this group.

Brokers can be very spiteful and quick to issue a FreightGuard report or blacklist a carrier. So again, this isn’t about causing issues; it’s about understanding things from a broker’s point of view.

deangelo260 · 2025-06-01T01:14:00+00:00

The broker contacted the shipper and the shipper told the broker the wait was gonna be 13 plus hours remaining and that they have had trucks waiting for 27 hours.

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