@boredsocial The company I work for right now we do a lot of flatbed TQL work. We are given a lot of bad info on loads, destinations, etc. My boss has also told them not to contact me and to go through him. But because they needed to text me with a pickup location ONE time I get phone calls all the time. I usually end up blocking the number in my phone after I listen to the message. My boss even called them and complained but it still happens every day.
The only thing stopping me from losing my #### and telling the guy off is I plan on buying a truck in the next few months and don't want to burn any bridges. Not that I want to be running cheap TQL freight but in the northeast there's not always loads getting out of here.
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Discussion in 'Freight Broker Forum' started by jj94587, Aug 5, 2011.
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Yeah like I said, I just block their numbers. I don't have a "dispatcher". It's just my boss and I, so anything they need they can get from him until I have my own truck. And they haven't even slowed down with the calls since my boss told them not call me any more. I get at least 4 blocked call notices a day on my phone.
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I mean their model is just 'Hey we can hire just out of college kids from low wage areas for like 30k a year. They sound smart. Let's throw a thousand of them a year at the wall and see how many stick! Then we'll slap golden handcuffs on the ones who DO stick and pay them half of what successful brokers do elsewhere!'
I feel about them the way O/O's feel about CR England basically.
There are tons of little things they do in the spot market that bug me... But I can't really talk about them without giving away a LOT of information. Suffice it to say that of all my opponents they are the most predictable and the most prone to cheesy strategies.Last edited: Feb 5, 2017
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I feel for you as a broker. I almost went to work one to get my experience so I could go out on my own eventually. But I just couldn't live off of what I would make as a sub. I've worked with a few really good brokers over the years as a company driver and some that I would just block their numbers.
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