Saw a load posted on ITS from Dallas to Syracuse, but instead of a contact # it said "bid online." Clicked on it and instead of the pop-up load detail screen, it opened a new tab and took me to Uship...
The ITS search result said it was shipping today, but it really has 4 days left on the auction and the rate is already at my floor...
Has this been going on long?
Uship posting on ITS?
Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by double yellow, Oct 27, 2014.
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yah, for a few months anyway. I've never had any luck with uship, but they are partnering with some larger shippers such as Ritchie Bros auctions. I don't know what to make of it, but something to be aware of.
double yellow Thanks this. -
It's been going on a for a while now. A girl at Uship told me about the partnership agreement they had with ITS. Like Danny said something to be aware of. I did end up picking up a direct customer off Uship once and few LTL add ons however I havent been on in a while. It takes too much time and as a plus you get to watch the rates drop so low to the point that I am not sure someone with a free truck and stolen fuel could haul it and make a profit.
The direct customer is a good guy however he only has one load a month or so and now that we have a relationship he doesn't fool with Uship much either. Had a piece of art work ride in the cab once for $175 or so, it was going to the same city as the receiver for the load anyways, so why not. -
been going on for couple of years at least.
don't know how it's posted these days but you used to be able to tell it was uship by the way it was posted.. -
Uship is OK for LTL stuff to fill up your trailer. You need to get paid up front. Your dealing with people who live in a house, not a company. You get there and the guy on the other end says I'm not buying that piece of crap and your stuck in the middle. Or they expect you to deliver it to their house with no way to get it off your truck and so on and so on. Most of the time it's an Ebay purchase. Construction equipment is your best bet. They know to hire a real carrier and not some dip stick with a pickup.
double yellow Thanks this. -
If people wouldn't bid on the Uship crap, maybe they'll keep it off the other load boards. I've seen a few on Central Dispatch, I pass on them.
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I bid on a vehicle that would have been a perfect fit on my recent west coast LTL load.(dry van). MT-WA. bid was 50cent a mile. stupid cheap. took 5 days for the guy to respond.
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Uship. 22 foot boat needs to be shipped from Tampa, FL to Seattle, WA.
Current bid.$400.
Uship is crap! -
op forgive me for asking this but on its board there is alot of diff brokers from everywhere placing adds, when you see one that has no diamonds out by there name do you still contact them or just pass? more diamonds by the name is better looks like.
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My first load was for BNSF, & at the time their DAT credit score was like 93. TQL and the like are always over 100... Now BNSF is wholly owned by Berkshire Hathaway, a company on impeccable financial footing ($55b in cash!) that has a long history of bailing out "too big to fail" institutions like Solomon brothers & Goldman Sachs -- so the very idea of BNSF being a credit risk was just ludicrous to me and turned me off their whole system. (They ultimately paid me on time & the correct amount)
I mainly look at business age (being extra leery of anything less than a year old) and customer reviews. I may do a web search to see what kind of hits pop. And if the carrier packet is full of typos or bizarre requirements I'll probably pass. Likewise I'll pass if I just intuit that they are shady.
Anecdotally, my three favorite brokerages are small operations with no fancy ratings while my three least favorite have every badge and diamond...
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