non compete info

well it is pretty simple. You either have signed non-compete agreement, and therefore can't do the above for clients involved in that agreement. Or you've not.

 

You're going to want to look at each contract you've signed. A lot have back-soliciting clauses. Ours does.

 

Depending on the specific language in the back-solicitation clause in your carrier/broker agreements, you could be liable for penalties if you get caught soliciting from customers with whom your past relationship is due to accepting brokered loads.

 

This may be a silly question but if you are a carrier that opens a brokerage is it under the same legal name?

In other words, if it is a different entity, does the non-compete still apply?

If it does not apply, then that separate brokerage can put your trucks to work without any non-compete issues?

 

that all depends on the contract. I suspect you'd really be smarter asking these questions of your companies lawyer. rather than us arm chair lawyers. After all your company's legal dept isn't gonna take "I asked on the internet" as a valid excuse for them getting sued for mistakes that might happen.

 

You really should be asking your lawyer these questions... especially when it gets into an area where there is a preexisting relationship, but you've also run brokered freight. And, again, it depends on the agreement you signed, not one some unknown person on the Internet signed.

 

not4hire hits the nail on the head here. I can only speak to our specific contract, not every single one that you may or may not have signed.

For us, it's customer specific.