If I have to pay $20 a night for parking I'm looking at $400-$640 a month in extra expenses, assuming I can get free parking maybe 10 nights a month. That's a damn car payment. Yet a broker will argue with me over $50 extra on a load right now? A load which by the way is barely paying enough to cover expenses, let alone enough margin to put away a war chest to deal with the crazy unforeseen expenses that pop up with heavy trucks and trailers. This isn't going to greatly increase available parking, just turn existing parking into paid parking. The longer I go without making decent money in this game, the more Ludacris the prices are going to be to brokers/customers when this market flips. Enjoy the $1.60 a mile idiots while they last, they won't be long. Then its hello to $4-6 a mile to make up for the last 24 months...
It's capitalism. Some call it greed. As long as people have this belief or right that they can/should make a buck off of everything that "could" be free then all things will have a price. Then the flip side of that is getting the gov't involved to subsidize this problem and pay land owners who provide truck parking or paying truckers parking fee's. Some won't like that idea either. Truckers need to go on strike until the power at be come up with a solution that all agree on so that truckers are not parking illegally and getting fined b/c they have to tuck somewhere to get off the road.
If I have to pay $20 a night for parking I'm looking at $400-$640 a month in extra expenses, assuming I can get free parking maybe 10 nights a month. That's a damn car payment.
Yet a broker will argue with me over $50 extra on a load right now?
A load which by the way is barely paying enough to cover expenses, let alone enough margin to put away a war chest to deal with the crazy unforeseen expenses that pop up with heavy trucks and trailers.
This isn't going to greatly increase available parking, just turn existing parking into paid parking.
The longer I go without making decent money in this game, the more Ludacris the prices are going to be to brokers/customers when this market flips.
Enjoy the $1.60 a mile idiots while they last, they won't be long. Then its hello to $4-6 a mile to make up for the last 24 months...
It's capitalism. Some call it greed. As long as people have this belief or right that they can/should make a buck off of everything that "could" be free then all things will have a price. Then the flip side of that is getting the gov't involved to subsidize this problem and pay land owners who provide truck parking or paying truckers parking fee's. Some won't like that idea either. Truckers need to go on strike until the power at be come up with a solution that all agree on so that truckers are not parking illegally and getting fined b/c they have to tuck somewhere to get off the road.