“The brokers make too much”

100% responsibility, and all costs associated with moving the load. We pay Tolls, fuel, insurance, taxes, maintenance, on top of that if load was sealed at pick up and dropped without any issues along the way we are still responsible for missing or damaged items.


If let’s say shipper is responsible for insuring the load, then shipper would be diligent on which brokers to work for, requiring brokers to only contract respectable carriers with good safety scores and reliability.


If a broker has to fly through hoops to get a license and is closely monitored by a federal agency to make sure loads are not double brokered, to make sure they are fully licensed as a firm and make sure they pay when they tender a load things would be different trust me.


These steps will insure shippers work with qualified brokers who then insure they work with qualified carriers.


As I see if if carriers are federally regulated yet brokers and shippers aren’t then we have a imbalance.

if every link in the chain is federally regulated minus cap on profit then that’s when you will see a balance.

 

Everyone complains about Brokers. If you think You can do a better Job, by all means, open a Brokerage, get the Customers, cover the Freight. All You need is a Bond, and of course the hard part, Customers.

 

Not really that hard, pretty easy to do actually. I’ve seen brokerage firms set up within 2 weeks and right into double brokering, no customers needed. Pick loads off the board and retender them.

how is it done? I know some secrets, but it ain’t that hard.

 

Simple math. More loads less trucks more money. More trucks less loads less money! Not everyone will be a winner . If you’ve never seen a boom or a bust you haven’t been around very long. Years ago the produce market was hot along with everything else, frito lay couldn’t find trucks for just simple potatoes. This was back when we where loading open top trailers. Price got so high we started seeing these big beautiful large car produce wagons rolling in. They where actually paying more than produce and stealing there trucks!! Sorry you can blame brokers all day long but their just playing the market like everyone else. And most shippers could care less as long as the loads move without to much trouble! Sometimes you just get caught in the rip tide and you either sink or swim or just blame somebody else!

 

my rates reflect my costs of business not saying anything about that. Not against profit at all, just saying brokers and shippers should have the same level of federal watch dogs as we carriers do.

 

More government regulation = NO!

I think the government should not do ANY bailouts but here we are. Rates would be high as hell if it wasnt for bailouts. Now everyone is getting their payroll paid for them and it just prolongs the ####ty ### rates.

Sucks when a company who prepares for such a down turn can’t compete without an equal bailout due to everyone else getting it.

 

Why they don’t have the liability and don’t want it, that’s why they don’t have a transportation department. If they did you wouldn’t have a job!

 

No one was bleating back in 2018 when the boot was on the other foot and the brokers were getting bent over, couldn't wait to stick it to them then could we, me as hard as anyone I admit.

It'll come back around for those who understand the game, and for the companies the ones who dont will be working for.

 

then one could say why does a MC that’s 10 years old pay less insurance than let’s say a new MC started by driver with a 10 year clean history?

My opinion on the bailout doesn’t matter but what matters is this.

brokers watch rates and if someone posts a rate lower then they lower it.

brokers are allowed to cancel loads after rate con is supplied only to retender it to someone cheaper.

equal opportunity yes equal outcome no.