WARNING: USHIP has huge brokerage fees (hidden)

So, help me out here. Is U-Ship a broker? If not , what would they be classified as? Does the shipper pay U-Ship, who in turns takes out their "fee" then sends the money to the carrier or does U-Ship collect a deposit, equal to their fees, then leave it to the carrier to collect his money from the shipper? Not interested in playing cut throat with anybody and taking money out of people's pockets by playing how low will you go just wondering if U-Ship is playing on fair ground. From what I have read they seem to meet the qualifications of a broker so shouldn't they be required to post a broker bond?

 

Oh, and as for DOT going into their house and snooping around, we aren't talking about a private residence we are talking about a public domain on the internet. You post it and they will come.

 

Uship charges the credit card on file of the member who lists the unit to be shipped a match fee that they keep, when they accept the winning bid of a service provider who bids the lowest, or whom ever the customer chooses for whatever reason. The rest of the listed shipping fee must be collected by the shipper, and is theirs to keep. You can choose to have the site automatically add the match fee to your wiinig bid as it gets listed when you type in your bid on a load, or not to, in whch case its deducted form the amount you bid, and Uship keeps that. THEY GET THEIRS UP FRONT NO MATTER WHAT...and by the way they, dont claim to have any REAL part in each transaction, just that they are an independant facilitaor. Yeah right.

I try to warn my potential customers about accepting low ball bids from illegal or inexperienced shippers, but Uship watches these online communications very carefully so as not to have anyone badmouth them in any way for letting illegals bid on loads on their board. They will just delete comments or question posted online with any stuff they don't like. You have to watch your self and be civil, but i usually just warn the customer of they accept a low ball bid that's unrealistic, them don't be surprised at what you get...or DONT get if you do.

 

Hi there!


uShip is not a broker. uShip is an online shipping marketplace. The easiest way to think about it is this: a broker assigns a truck whereas uShip does not. In its simplest form, shipping customers create auction listings on the site and transportation companies bid to win those jobs.

There are two payment options offered when a customer accepts a bid:

1. uShip Payments - customer pays the full bid amount online at the time of bid acceptance and releases a payment code to the service provider upon delivery.
2. Deposit - customer pays a position of the bid amount online at the time of bid acceptance. Payment for the remaining balance is worked out between the customer and the provider.

If you have additional questions, please feel free to contact us

Best,
Jami - uShip Team Lead

 

We signed up a long time ago and never hauled anything.

That show with the kid in the van, got put out of service for hauling interstate w/o the permits. No insurance, no tags etc. What a fooken joke. Its only a matter of time when these bozos get into an accident and end up going to jail. (Dont wish bad on no one, but thats a reality of trucking)

 

LOL Uship nothing but a joke,how the hell these so called transporters make any money!I seen bids going for .50 cents a miles or less!

 

I dont think painting has anything to do with the transpotation industry. Thats on 2 different parts of the planet there. Not a good argument in my opinion. Just me though.

 

Sooo..... If UShip is not a broker then they dont have to go thru the lengthy process of dealing with making sure that people have the proper insurance and authority to run freight Interstate. Esentially, bringing in non DOT compliant Transporters into the industry. In turn that is causing people to be able to have stuff shipped at a lower rate than an authorized carrier would be willing to move it for. To me this is another WIN for cheap freight. Good job UShip for helping the trucking industry out. Its these operations that are going to get non compliant transporters caught and in turn bring more regulations on the the industry that will effect the people that are trying to do this legally and make a living at it. It makes me sick to think that someone would haul at the rate that these people haul at. This is just the kind of thing that is going to turn the trucking industry into ALL mega carriers one day because owner operators are going to get forced out for not being able to haul for a cheap ### rate. UShip is essentially running a broker service without being licensed brokers. They have found the loop holes to advertise the freight and not have to carry any of the liability. All of this is strictly my opinion so if I am wrong please chime in. I dont see how I am though.

 

Don't know when or how long this been in place but now you can not accept cash on delivery,uship has a set up now where once the shipper accepts your bid,they pay the uship fees and your fee up front via credit card or paypal what ever and then once you drop off the shipment the customer has to give you a code in order to release the cash to you.Now that's BS because how the hell a transporter going to be able to pay for fuel,hotel,etc while on the road?From what I read on a another forum some TSP are claiming it can take up to 5 days before uship release the funds!

 

Just went into effect not to long ago i believe. Posted a load on there a couple months ago to see how many illegal morons id get bidding on it. Pathetic thing was one guy actually wanted me to find him a back haul since when is it a customers job to find a carrier a back haul?