Ain't much different than you fellers cruzen up here and swipen our fats going south for chump change on the mile.We aren't so simpathetic to your gripe.Good day .

This has been my whole mission statement since I have started in this business. Truckers are their own worst enemy. And it is ALWAYS somebody else fault. We ALL need to take a deep look into the mirror and change what we look at before we can start throwing accusations at each other. If we would try and work together it would be amazing what we could accomplish, but, it is a lot easier to blame each other and ignore the true problems of this industry! WE have issues such as overly excessive fines by the federal and state govt. to keep us in compliance. Packing plants using us as storage units when they run out of room, but yet fining us if we are late. Special interest groups shoving their forums down our throat with the help of government and the packing industry. Buyers and Reps overloading our equipment but then only wanting to pay on short miles and not willing to prorate it if you are willing to take it. And this is just the tip of iceberg,this doesn't even start to touch on the issues within the trucking industry as a whole. WE have no voice that I can see that truthfully addresses the rightful concerns of this industry. And until we accomplish that, this piecemeal complaining that we do amongst ourselves is never going to accomplish a damn thing! Let's figure out a way to work together I say...

True...every word Brian but you know as well as I do that greed will never let it happen. That is a sad fact as the cattle hauling industry becomes more like freighthauling with each passing week. I was told over a month ago that $2.50 a mile was all that was going to be payed out of Va.. Tomorrow I load a truck out of Va. for $2.90. Want to know why? Service my friends. If you hold your ground, keep good equipment,EXPERIENCED CATTLE HAULERS, and keep service first, you dont have to work cheap! Thank you, Bobby West, owner West Cattle Co.

You know hand, I was born and raised in Texas. A 3 generation cow hauler and had my own trucking in texas hauling livestock.  I moved to Iowa in November for a guy I was going to drive for.  But, things went South with him and now have started my own company in Iowa.  First of all, let me say I go to Texas loaded with kill or fats, kick off and load coming right back.  Yes, sometimes it is for 2.25, but its kill and it is a back haul.  Do you know what that is, BACK HAUL?  There has been a mess load of rain in the South, so it's wet.  Do you know what happens when you take a cowtruck off hard ground into mud?  Then load it so you have no grass cattle or feeders.  So much of it is kill coming out of the salebarn.  Have'nt found much feeders coming out of the barns paying, or going far enough worth a shit.  What I'm saying is, we are not cutting the rate down there you TX, NM, and AZ trucks.  I have lived it,  and I make more money up here then I have ever made running a company in the South.  Yes, we do have yahoos in the North that think they have to cut a rate to get the business, but you get what you pay for.  My buyers in the North are pretty loyal and pay the extra that I ask for a mile because they get to where their going on all 4 and up right.  You know, I would like to know this and anybody can answer this for me.  Why is it always Texas complaining about us otr trucks coming down there?  You never hear the West or East coast trucks crying?

Theres the problem rite there 2.25 a mile holy hell we used to get alot more than that for it but once ahian nobody will stand there ground on rates.I start laughing when most people mention a load under 3.oo dollars a mile and 99.9 percent of the time i tell em find one of them cheap compant drivers to get it for em.I have a living to make.Granteed sometimes you have to bend a little but not everytime you load.

If you could read it says some times. If you been in the business long enough and deal with buyers and not brokers all the time then you would know some times you might just have to give a little to get alot. Plus it also says that the trucks have drove the rates down in texas and i dont care how you are there has been to much rain down there so all your going to get is sale barn cattle out of there. I would rather load that then bounce 1200 miles home.Plus dont be scared to hide be hind the computer let every body know who  you are post your name instead of a user number chump!!!!

thats funny i dont under stand that word BACK HAUL it takes the same amount of fuel to haul a load down as it does back so why do yall think you can haul for cheap going back home

A little fyi brokers are not used for back haules i use kill houses to get back some push 50 to 120 head a day and another more. I dont use a broker cause if i cant get out and talk to buyers and kill plants then i dont need to own a buisness.Do what i do if i dont like the rate then i dont haul it i dont talk crap on this load board during the winter when u southern trucks were up here taking fats back to the south so cheap i just didnt haul it when the buyer said i can get a truck from the south to do it cheaper.

AMEN!!!!! finally a real business man on here!!!!

First of all we need to start with all the damn lies out here its sad to say but i dont trust cow haulers any more than i do a freight hauler any more! all the back stabbing come on guys work together a little it aint gona get any better with everyone acting this way! Just try an keep this in mind -.