problem booking loads

The whole system is dumb. There has got to be an easier way than just going off of inspections.

 

theres scales on i90?

 

What you’re running into is unfortunately very common, and it’s less about “scam suspicion” and more about how broker safety systems evaluate risk.

Even though your authority isn’t new on paper, from a broker’s perspective it looks inactive:
• long gap with no inspections
• no current ELD history
• no equipment showing as active
• insurance only recently reinstated

Most brokers don’t manually review this; their safety departments rely on automated rules. No recent inspections + no active equipment usually triggers an auto-denial, even if you ran clean years ago.

A few things that can help:
• get at least one clean roadside inspection ASAP (it changes how you look in safety systems)
• make sure your insurance cert is updated everywhere brokers pull from
• confirm your equipment is properly listed and tied to the authority
• be upfront when calling brokers; explain the reactivation instead of letting them “discover” it

You’re not wrong for trying to age the authority, but without recent activity it still reads as high-risk to most brokers.

Good luck

 

Bellevue Kansas scales. Go over a little heavy on trailer. He’ll note it in a level 2 inspection.

 

The one in Spokane Valley WA was very generous to me when it comes to inspections. In one month I must have gotten 10 there alone. Each time, I rolled across there, they gave me level 2. There was that notable guy with a mustache, he wanted to get me on the log book. He told me to never show average more than 60mph in Montana, so I always showed 59.9 between Billings and there. They liked me in Billings too.
Lol

 

No I am not on the open market much, but when I am I don't run into to much problem, I just stay Away from the big brokers in the open deck world, like Ryan, ATS, and the like 1 because I would rather not deal with tracking BS and 2 I already know those 2 are not gonna load me because of the inspection thing

 

I also notice when capacity changes in an area those rules become less and less. I think by next spring in open deck they are going to be playing by a different set of rules

 

Idaho Exit 2, bang a right, up to the next cross route and hang a left…

billings, frontage road and even if EB is open it’s usually civilian run so I just drive by and wave,

 

In WA that avoids the inspection station but there’s a camera about a mile west of the state line on 290, if it can pick up your plate or DOT number they’ll still know what time you came into the state if you get stopped anywhere else out there.

Also Montana will check cameras from other scales even if they’re closed. If there’s not a white pickup at the scale they won’t chase.

 

Why the 60mpg average? I must have had 2 dozen inspections in mt and never once heard that. The speed limit is 70mph for trucks