You're crazy as a loon if you don't think shippers everywhere don't care or know about vicarious liability and what happened to CH Robinson. Yeah they all want everything done as cheap as possible but the days of not caring about what carriers haul the freight (their compliance and saftey records) are coming to an end. If Uship is doing half of what people say they are without a care in the world about saftey records, operating authority etc then what he said is right on, it's only a matter of time before something happens and they get wiped out in a lawsuit.
Anyone ever bid on loads on UShip.com?
Discussion in 'Freight Broker Forum' started by bigjoel, Oct 3, 2012.
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Some of the shipping wars stuff is just drama but a lot of it is plain stupidity.
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There's a tv show called shipping wars, the group on the show bids loads on uship, and then it takes you through the journey as they work on delivery the load, about half are rookies, only one rig, the rest are pickups, good show tho!
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You ever wonder how they make money? At the end when they show their "profit" they have not calculated any insurance or truck or trailer payment or any of that. Take all of those costs out and they are basicly touring the country slowly going broke.
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I've actually met guys making their money from U.ship. No cargo insurance or DOT to deal with. One guy pulling a horse trailer with camper in the front and no name on the truck or trailer. Another guy pulling a large toy hauler, again no name so they do not have to deal with DOT. Neither one making any great money at it, but making enough to travel for free.
Look for the Toy haulers and horse trailers in the truck stops, especially down south like Florida and talk with them.
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That's true, and sometimes they have to rent a trailer. There was one episode where they were crossing the state line into Nevada and DOT shut them down for not having logs at all, no fines just made them take a reset but they found someone to drive the truck into Vegas instead
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The biggest problem and different reality from the show is the auction doesn't time out like an auction. It times out, when the customer decides to take whoever bid. Most bids will time out before the customer responds because most customer like to see their auction run until they are ready to get it moved.
I have actually gotten a few loads off their when I had my own authority. Made money on one short haul of a box truck and lost money on another, because the customer needed an RGN trailer and didn't realize a difference between that and a step deck which I have.
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Normal shippers are not using u.ship. It's the little shipper or individual posting 98 percent loads on there.
No uship is not a broker and does not pretend to be. If you haul from uship much, you'll see the adavatange of using a broker. -
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