Can you spot the double brokered load?

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  1. windsmith

    windsmith Road Train Member

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    Can you spot the double brokered load?

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    Tobyhanna, PA to Redstone Arsenal, AL, hazmat, 22000 lbs.

    Broker: Black Water Enterprises Rate: $2800
    Broker: High Plains Logistics Consulting Rate: $1500

    Unbelievable.
     
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  3. aiwiron

    aiwiron Road Train Member

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    Even at 2800 that is scab rates for hazmat
     
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  4. windsmith

    windsmith Road Train Member

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    I'm thinking that it's explosives, given the shipper and receiver.
     
  5. aiwiron

    aiwiron Road Train Member

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    No explosives, most likely waste petroleum. Redstone has a incinerator and used to haul to them, most likely drums of recovered soil that was contaminated by spills or accidents. It takes all day to get loaded and unloaded, figure 48 hours of government B.S.

    We hauled by the load and payed well, just never less than 5.00 per mile but in today's market some under achiever will take it.
     
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  6. MNdriver

    MNdriver Road Train Member

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    Likely both are actually triple brokered.
     
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  7. BigBadBill

    BigBadBill Bullishly Optimistic

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    Make sure you understand the difference between co-broker and double broker. If you can get into a good relationship with a broker that is working with a large 3PL that will only work with carriers of a certain size you can do very well.

    And this comment has nothing to do with OP.
     
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  8. cominghomesc

    cominghomesc Light Load Member

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    This is correct and happens quite often. I will often lay off excess loads to other brokers that I cannot get covered with my own brokerage/trucks example being that a customer called in 15 extra loads they needed picked up between monday and tuesday of last week. So I called a local CH Robinson branch who I have done this before with and they moved 8 of the loads. You have a contract similar to what a carrier would fill out.
     
  9. rollin coal

    rollin coal Road Train Member

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    Redstone Arsenal is more of a R&D military base.. ..not so much bullets/ammo and troops.
     
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  10. fortycalglock

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    You'll never haul or see loads posted for military bullets or explosives. The loads are not brokerable and can only be run by teams with gov clearances and satellite tracking. This small sector is called AA&E. Landstar Ranger is an AA&E carrier and the loads are never posted to the internal load board, only by Qualcomm.
     
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  11. cominghomesc

    cominghomesc Light Load Member

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    I am guessing they pay pretty well
     
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