whats the story with uber freight charging like 15% of normal movers?
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whats the story with uber freight charging like 15% of normal movers?
Haven’t googled that topic yet. I’ll have to get back to ya.Quote:
Originally Posted by sonatine
Building and running a business ungoverned by quarterly earnings is a subject Mumbles will have to ask Amazons Alexa about. That skews Millenial
The real question is do you trust some gig worker with your Hummel collection
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Originally Posted by Sanlmar
its more a question of what exactly are they offering.
its unclear if they are just brokering for contractors/third parties who do the actual moving or if they are offering point-to-point shipping to the actual clients.
Ok, I’ve Googled it sufficiently to confirm what I thought....Quote:
Originally Posted by sonatineQuote:
Originally Posted by Sanlmar
its more a question of what exactly are they offering.
its unclear if they are just brokering for contractors/third parties who do the actual moving or if they are offering point-to-point shipping to the actual clients.
Uber Freight is a load broker, getting access to potential loads from customers, and recruiting drivers to participate and haul those loads. In order to get more loads from customers, they need to have more drivers who take their loads, and vice versa. Currently, Uber is drastically undercutting the traditional brokers by passing a lot more of the revenue from the load to the driver.
https://youtu.be/nHzg5zuizWs
The 15% figure you mention might be the ratio of Uber Freight’s cut versus the average for traditional brokers. This doesn’t mean that the total freight to the customer is 15%, as traditional broker’s portion of the revenue for the load is usually about 10%-20%. Alternately, if Uber is foregoing keeping as much as traditonal brokers, they may be passing that savings on to customers for now, which translates into customers paying about 15% less with Uber versus traditional brokers.
yeah i just signed up for an account and was quoted like $3500 for a full truck from coast to coast and immediately recognized that things were not what they seemed. thank you.
Are you not friends with Suicide King? You should ask him for his free shipping privledges for a LOT of your smalls.
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Originally Posted by splitthis
i had never considered that but i feel like its a big ask... ill ship some noodz tho and see what happens.
You’re welcome. And if you subscribe to my googling services at the patron level, I’ll send you a complimentary coffee mug as soon as the first batch comes back from the jobber.Quote:
Originally Posted by sonatine