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Yeah, it's really really bad for truckers everywhere. Basically just-in-time wouldn't work without them, and they have the least amount of power in the situatio

Yeah, it's really really bad for truckers everywhere. Basically just-in-time wouldn't work without them, and they have the least amount of power in the situation so they get screwed. No wonder they can't get people to do it. > I would definitely be tracking this behaviour from clients and factor that into quotes and contracts. Yeah, I think they'd like to, but that basically means you'll go out of business as the suppliers have a lot more pricing power than the trucking companies.

VBprogrammer 4y ago
> Yeah, I think they'd like to, but that basically means you'll go out of business as the suppliers have a lot more pricing power than the trucking companies. Yeah, I thought of that. The ideal would be to price it at a level which makes it attractive but draw up the contract such that excessive messing around on the part of the client results in penalties or extra charges. From what I've seen the CEO and upper management probably aren't aware of how much the yard manager is messing drivers about. For every truck load incoming there are probably 10 people throughout the business desperate for what's on that load.