A recent survey by industry publication Overdrive looked into a question that is common among owner-operators: “Who is really hauling all the cheap freight?” The survey considered loads that are on the edge of or below a carrier’s profitability level. Asked if they ever hauled a load that lost money, a majority of the nearly 600 respondents said they had, while 38% said they had not.
Looking at reasons for taking unprofitable loads, most respondents fell into either...
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