was not their sole jurisdiction and those rates aren't presently "set" per se. That was the entire point of the Motor Carrier Act of 1980
If you build widgets in Atlanta and want to ship 5 truckloads a week out to California, you will get varying quotes from any number of carriers. As with anything, the more you have, the better the rate will be.
If you make one widgit a month and ship it UPS, it is going to cost you significantly more per mile per pound than if you are filling 53' trailers with them once a day.
The original shipping rates are still in tact and the percentage of a discount is taken from that original ICC rate.
Where do you get this from? Please cite a reference or I call bullshit.
sometimes trucking companies, now, give up to 70% discount to a big shipping customer, also might be known as "WalMart."
First of all, in the case of other carriers, Wal-Mart is the consignee, NOT the shipper. The overwhelming majority of Wal-Mart goods moves from their distribution centers to their stores pulled by their own power units in their own trailers, and where it isn't, it is done on a contract basis, such as Schneider for instance supplying the tractor and the driver to move Wal-Mart's trailer for them.
Second, NO ONE, not one single trucking company is giving ANYBODY a "70% discount". 70 percent of what?
Every truck out there has an operational cost per mile which fluctuates on an almost daily basis with the change in Diesel costs. If it is averaging $1.00 per mile including driver wages (I believe the fleet average is right around that, but I digress) then anything over that figure is profit. If I can get $2.00 a mile from you to move your widgits, so be it, if all the other quotes you got were higher.
But there is
nothing stopping the "Otis and Barney Trucking Co." from calling you up and offering to haul your product for $1.10.
Nothing.
It just isn't the huge margin business you seem to think it is.
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