Brokers posting loads in far away cities to get attention? Please STOP!

I quote them insanely high just like you did. Or find other ways to waste their time. They don't care about ours so give them a taste of what it's like. TQL does this often in my area.

 

I know a driver that works for a flatbed company and he does all kinds of runs like that , where they will drive 300 miles empty , load up and drive the load 160 miles and deliver it and drive 485 miles empty back to the yard.
but the company charges out the nose for it.

recently went on a run where they drove 300 miles empty , loaded up, took it 130 miles, delivered it and they are waiting four days at a truck stop near the site, (closest truck stop was 65 miles from the job site) and are going to haul the same cargo 130 miles back to the same place and then drive 300 miles empty back home.
Company is charging an eye watering fee for it, and pays the drivers a good percentage .
Gonna be one of his best weeks pay ever.

If you need an oversize overweight load moved in a hurry , they will scramble trucks to do it , but you’re gonna pay out the nose.

But they don’t ever use brokers, they find these loads themselves. No dirtbag brokers involved .
They will run a thousand miles empty to get to their next load, rather than use a broker . seen em do it.

 

Had to be TQL

 

Some will do this around my area. For example they'll list Elmira when it's really syracuse. Or list Binghamton when it's really Scranton or vise versa. I think they do it to confuse other brokers.

 

Sames hit. The other thing they like to do is to post one load 25 times from all available geographic points in 200 miles radius from pick up. Then 25 times same load around delivery location. DAT reporting freight booming areas for fools.

 

Lmao. I ran a container one time 300 miles down the road, flipped around & brought it 300 miles back to the shipper. It was to be their 1st over seas shipment & they wanted to see how it would ride. They wanted to know it would reach it’s final port damage free.

after they loaded me, the guy handed me the bols & told me…beat the hell out of it man. Glad i was still in a company truck at the time lol

 

I prefer to drive empty if it paid as good as loaded!