I'm a Freight Finder struggling to find leads.

Once you have more direct customers, it's so much easier to line work up.
Quick text "hey, I'm going to be in your neck of the woods xxxxx day; if you have anything headed (direction) give me a shout"
Welp, that day gets booked. On to the next contact that's on the other end of that load. And so on n so forth. All that filling out carrier packets, making 5 phone calls, trying to ease the feeling that one of these days a broker is gonna fold on you or file a bs claim, trying to negotiate for a couple extra bucks.. All sure gets old.

I rather work with the people I work with, and to hell with the rest of them. Unless it gets served to me on a silver platter I'm not interested.


You got a plan @W900AOwner youll be there soon

 

If that's the case you would be better off to just lease on to a good (smaller) company. Yes I know they would take more than 5-8 % but most times ( if they are a good company)they will have direct freight and will be getting paid more on their loads than what you would get from a broker or freight finder would.

Also if you were to marry a former logistics person I do agree it would cost more than 8% but you could get many fringe benefits out of the deal. You really can't put a price on a quality peice of , well never mind, you'll figure it out.

 

hello,

as far as what you have to offer, what exactly is that because if you cant speak freely on a forum like this how do you make cold calls?

leads is the EASIEST thing to find. GOOGLE my friend. I have been a broker for many years and it is really tough because alot of shippers only care about bottom line. rule of thumb is for every 500 leads you call 1 should setup with you and give you freight.


ill help you out with a quick one. Call Alsum Farms they need help with their products.

 

Yeah, and put 50% of everything you own at risk? No thanks.

 

I'd rather give it all to a casino than go down that road.

 

So how are you putting 50% of what you own at risk by leasing to a company?

 

He meant the second part: marrying someone in logistics

 

Forgot about that part lol, you could just take her as a room mate or a friend with benefits.
I've been married to mine for 32 years now so if I left her it would probably cost way more than 50%. She lasted through 20 years of the USMC with me making multiple deployments so she's probably stuck with me till one of us crokes. Now if I could just get her trained on that logistics thingy.