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Old 03.17.2008
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Posting For Good and Bad Brokers

First and foremost!
This is NOT a thread intended for complaining and bashing. Please post that elsewhere.


The purpose of this thread is to give helpful informaton to fellow drivers.


If you have had good or bad experiences with a broker please post their name and locaton here so that all may benefit from your experiences.

Brokers Name, City and State only.

All phone numbers, addresses and links will be removed.


A short desciption of what makes them good or bad will be allowed.

I repeat.

This is NOT a thread for complaining and bashing.

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Just becasue its "legal" doesn't mean it's safe! I know when I need to sleep and when I am safe to drive. Fight the HOS. Write your Congressman.

There is no such thing as a "BACK-HAUL" everything has a start and stop point, If it needs to be moved then it is a load, period. Insurance, tires, fuel,etc... aren't any cheaper heading towards your home than they are going away. BACKHAUL is BS.

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Name and state only, NO phone numbers or addresses!

Like 5mouths said, this is not a bashing thread. We already know brokers suck for the most part. This thread is to help folks avoid bad brokers.

Name, state they are out of, and a description of what happened to earn them the bad broker list is all thats needed.
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Sammons out of missoula, mt----BAD

read my thread and you'll see why

basicly no diplomicy, failed to give me good contact numbers and not even bothered by the fact im stuck all week waitin to unload on friday!

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Could we get someone to put this up top with good and bad trucking companies or at least give it a sticky in the O/O section?????????
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Point to Point Logistics from New York...longest pay ever i believe 4 months...cpm rate wasnt so great either 1.60-1.80
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For a few months I have been reading this forum and every day you read about bad brokers screwing drivers over. This has been posted at the Top of the page for three days now and only a couple of brokers have been listed. If we want to change the way things are done, we have to get the word out about these bad apples. Then everyone has to make the decision to quit hauling for these people.
So for, I have been lucky, my brother has a contract and we haul directly for a shipper. But you never know when that could change. If I have to start using brokers I want to know who not to use. It is highly unlikely that the gooberment is going to step in and regulate them and I'm not sure if we want more regulation.I do think we should have full disclosure and would think that if everyone demanded it that we could force the brokers to disclose the full rate. I guess that would be the good thing about hauling for percentage, then you could force them to show you the rate....
LETS GET RID OF THE BAD APPLES,!!!!!!!!!!!
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Former Intransit was one of the brokers that would take 50% + off of the freight rate and then post it as the best they could do.
They got such a bad rep that they changed their name and I cannot remember the new one. Any one able to help me out?
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Market Transport LTD??????
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It could be. I left the independent scene and went the lease route before they changed their name. I saw it later but don't remember the name now.

If their claim is to "specialize in back haul freight" then yes that would be them. The only reason they are back haul freight is because they take perfectly good front haul freight and cut the price to nearly nothing before posting it on the boards.
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how bout Carrier Nationwide from Leominster,Mass...ive never done anything for them but i keep seeing their loads posted and they always pay around .70-.90per mile is that broker a joke?? who would actually haul for them?
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