Brokers are thieves!!!

How are you choosing to define 'small'? We've got a fifteen person office, and we float waaaaaay more than that.

 

I'd say any brokerage that either doesn't have an office, or only a small office. But I'm no expert. Just giving personal experience.

 

So you operated out of your house and did the “you get paid when I get paid” deal? Because any brokerage that offers quick pay has a huge amount of overhead. Yes they “make” money from that 3 to 5% but it still doesn’t make their money show up faster than 60 to 90 days or more from the shipper or receiver.

 

It was small. Just 2 of us. He had enough aside to pay the drivers. He was even moving into factoring when I stopped.

 

In the two weeks that these threads have been going on, despite how much money these guys all know that brokers make, and how easy it is to be a broker and get business, how many of them have started a brokerage? Seems foolish to leave all that easy money on the table to me.

 

That’s still overhead. That was the only point I was trying to make.

 

The fact that very few have gone out of business and hundreds more if not thousands have taken their place shows that there is money to be made on the brokers side, a lot more, meaning truckers are getting shafted left and right.


Some people might not know, some people know and pretend they don’t, and some know and speak up.

it’s always given to protect what you have, reason why truckers won’t share broker info because they don’t want their bread and butter gone.

same goes to brokers. Most brokers don’t want transparency because it will automatically bring the crap to the surface for everyone to see.


On DaT there is lane averages, what brokers pay to have things shipped, all brokers have access to this, yet no Shippers Pay Averages for carriers to have access to.

Transparency shouldn’t be a one way street.


And some of the guys here arguing for no transparency have not even gotten a load from a broker so their opinion is simply worth as much are opinions are worth these days.

 

Um donct megas hire drivers if they have a pulse? So there's no shortage of drivers coming in either.

 

Waaaah, government help me I'm dumb, wahhhhh.

 

When the guy I work with bids for our outbound stuff there’s no transparency from the shipper. He has no knowledge of rates that other carriers are submitting. He bids on the runs and they say whether we are the primary carrier or not. And if not they say if we’re number 2-3-4 whatever. If we’re number 2 he doesn’t know if the primary carrier was $10 cheaper or $200 cheaper. And you guys don’t see how transparency would hurt that. It would be a race to the bottom just like the load boards. Or would there be rules to your transparency? Like if you had direct customers there wouldn’t be transparency but if it was a broker load there had to be transparency? Or do all you guys want to make up the rules as you go for whatever benefits you at the time?