Brokers blacklisting me because of no inspections-Blaming Highway

This only shows how running a tight ship is of little importance from a broker's perspective. The would rather give a load to a truck with bald tires - those get inspections than risk giving a load to a proven guy because he has none.
They might think that bald tires may still roll whilst a guy without inspections may have nothing to put the load on.

 

Do you have drivewyze installed on your phone and active?

 

How much of this stuff goes on that nobody ever hears about? Fraud will continue as long as the feds keep handing out authority for $300.

 

Honestly if you pitch that to the rep you are talking to, and everything else looks good, that might get their compliance group to give you the greenlight.

 

We are a $500M+ brokerage, we've had 6 or 7 loads stolen YTD using the above or similar methods. And agreed, it's too easy to get an authority and the penalties and pursuit of justice are not where they need to be. In my humble opinion they should bury everyone of these dirt bags beneath the prison.

 

Brokerages are upstream from carriers. It's their job to stay up to date with technology, vet shippers & carriers, and maintain adequate systems to stop basic fraud.

They didn't. Not because they couldn't. Because they were greedy.

And just like everything else they blame carriers. But one giant elephant in the room...

The spike in owner ops and total carriers has happened right alongside the spike in brokers(that's another source of capacity that has to leave before rates improve).

And these brokers keep choosing price over service then get burned. Read that again. And again.

These brokers chose price over service and got burned, but they still blame carriers.

And carriers blame carriers.

And so now brokers advocate to the feds for more regulations on carriers.

And carriers get more regulations.

 

What added regulations have carriers gotten?

 

That happened to me last year. I think I posted about this. Call the inspection stations near wherever you are and request one in advance. I had to do this in Nevada because I had no inspections my first two years and was getting rejected despite a good record. You can also call a highway patrol station. They have people who do inspections.

 

The regulation I'm referencing as being advocated for is to restrict carriers from being only able to sell their mc#, company controlled emails, etc. The skin of the chameleon so to speak.

The final statement of my post saying carriers get more regulation is a sarcastic comment based on history and the difference in regulatory burden between carriers and brokers. It's a foregone conclusion carriers will take the blame for brokers not investing in the systems necessary to keep pace with general technology.