Load board agents

If she can cover easily and cheaply why does she still have the load?

 

It does get old... I sometimes wonder how these brokers get access to their frieght... Because i cant actually believe the stupidity i hear from most of them, is the same stupidity they've approached a customer with, to help move their freight... There must be some competance somewhere in a brokerage but it seems it ends with the person actually trying to move ####.

 

I had one call me asking to „help him with a load” that he couldn’t fit on a hotshot and he already accepted the load from a customer (I have an actual tractor trailer).

I was like, I’m sorry brother, you can always ask your customer to adjust the rate or idk, maybe send 2 hotahots (on top of each other I thought thh, but didn’t say that). In any case, my quote to do this is: $xxx.

 

THIS^^^^^^^^^^^^

 

There are so many new brokerages popping up on DAT it's almost laughable. I'm pretty sure I will be putting my subscription on hold as soon as tmrw since I already paid for November. Reading the reviews can be both entertaining & depressing, especially when you see something that works nicely into your schedule, until you read the reviews of the broker. "hmm, is it worth the risk?" most likely not. Other brokerage load boards have nowhere near the amount of loads they had over a year ago. I don't run spot freight very often but the few loads I either bid on or inquired about in 2022 were all shot down, either by a return email saying FIRM in their price, or "Try lowering your bid for a better chance of winning this load"...uhhh, no thanks. My equipment is paid for but my time is still very valuable. I don't give away my time for anybody. And much like @86scotty said to where he had a hard time not responding, yes, I've felt the same way, so I go with the silence is golden factor. I guess it's role reversal these days as the brokers are riding the gravy train, so I'll just sit back and watch from a distance, things can rot on the dock as far as I'm concerned.

 

Yes its unfortunately a very sad sad world out there, considering we are living in a so called "Christian" society what ever happened to the Golden rule you know the one about doing unto others as you wish done onto you? In the end the poor old trucker cops all the blame as you've got to blame someone right, think the brokers get the best end of the deal all they have to do is find someone who's willing to haul the load dirt cheap, the broker gets a nice chunk of the pie for doing virtually nothing while you the driver take all the risks put up with all the baloney all for peanuts.

 

Christ IS NOT PRESENT in the business of trucking! No way no how notta never. Straight up Roman empire is more like it.

You have to be an absolute animal and kill the weak and sacrifice stuff! LOL.