How do they find me

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  1. Aug 10, 2011 #1
    BigBadBill

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    I am MT in OH and have a reload for tomorrow. But have been getting calls from brokers all day long for loads where I am MT. I am not posted any place onther than LS but these are not LS agents. When I ask how they found me I get a vauge answer regarding a database.

    Is some LS agent selling/trading my MT status?
     
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  3. Aug 10, 2011 #2
    josh.c

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    I've had the same thing happen with Landstar a couple of times, although it's usually with Worldwide Logistics, which I think may be the brokerage leg of Annett Holdings, aka TMC. Best I can figure, it comes from Landstar agents that are also agents for other brokerages, but I really don't know.
     
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  4. Aug 10, 2011 #3
    BigBadBill

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    Yup, Worldwide was one of the callers. Didn't get the other callers companies. Not really an issue just odd.
     
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  5. Aug 11, 2011 #4
    High Desert Dweller

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    ITS has a value added feature (for brokers only) called "hot prospects". If you search for loads in any given radius, brokers can see your contact info.
     
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  7. Aug 11, 2011 #5
    Winchester Magnum

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    This is correct.

    BBB, if you're using ITS, call them and have them to disable the feature.....unless you like the brokers to see/know what you are searching for.
     
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  8. Aug 11, 2011 #6
    BigBadBill

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    good to know. But it does not much bother me. At least I know when I get those calls that it is a desperate broker. Never happen when I pulled my van. But after two weeks of pulling flatbed I have calls coming out of the wood work. Supply and demand working in my favor this week.:biggrin_25519:
     
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  9. Aug 11, 2011 #7
    Winchester Magnum

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    2 or 3 years ago I was researching loads and kept getting calls "hey do you have a trailer in so and so".....I got tired of it and called ITS and they disabled it.

    I have been looking for loads to Alaska as of late, so maybe I should call ITS back up and have them undo it, as for once I'd like to be bothered, LOL.
     
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  10. Aug 11, 2011 #8
    RedForeman

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    Guess that means those calls I've been getting apparently out of the blue weren't due to my good looks and winning personality.

    :biggrin_2559:

    I'd gotten a few calls like that in the past two weeks. That coincides with starting to use ITS, but I had a bunch of other stuff going on and didn't connect the two.
     
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