Coyote Logistics ?

I haul for them quite a bit as well. I actually caught them with their pants down the day before Thanksgiving, this past year, and cashed in. Sioux City, IA to Jacksonville, FL then Miami, FL. 3.65 per mile on roughly 1750 miles.

Like all the other large brokers, you have to sift through a bunch of garbage before finding one good load. I will admit that I do look at their internal load board every morning though.

 

I got a cold call from them and downloaded their carrier package. While reading it I got sleepy first, then saw something shiny and forgot about it. One of these days I will get back to it.

 

Squirrel........

 

I do notice that as well, there are a lot of under cover brokers here who post fake info.

 

I have done some for Coyote Logistics that is usually for FEMA during a disaster and they need alot of trucks fast.

Get a great rate per mile for this with your terms for detention pay up front on rate confirmation because you will have a tough time getting it later.

 

Thanks. what do you usually haul for on that lane?

 

UPDATE:

Got a call last Friday (I think it was Friday...suffering from CRS) from a guy named Mario P., the project manager for business development at Coyote.

Seemed like a nice enough guy, though both individuals I spoke with at Coyote sounded young. Not necessarily a bad thing...but I digress.

It looks like they actually read my email and wanted to comment on it/go over it with me. Mario obviously wanted to convey that Coyote wouldn't condone such behavior here on The Truckers Report. Well, I've worked in corporate America long enough to know that whether they do or don't condone it, obviously, they have to espouse the fact that (at least publicly) they do not condone it.

I asked what measures they took to investigate, and Mario responded that it was looked into, and though the IP addresses were from the Chicagoland area, they were not from Coyote's location.

Later, he said that what he thought happened is that some Coyote representative(s) called carriers they had worked with, and got them to log on here and write positive reviews in this thread.

To me, it seems too coincidental that all the carriers would be from the Chicagoland area, and that just so happens to be where Coyote's brokerage offices are. Regardless, after asking some more pointed questions about how Mario found out what he thought happened, and getting not so direct responses, I dropped it.

Instead, I chose to ask Mario what his background was. I believe he said it was in computer operations or something similar prior to Coyote (CRS again), but what I do remember is that I specifically asked him how long he had been working in the transportation industry. He stated that he had only been with Coyote for two years, and that was the extent of his experience in the industry. I then asked him if he'd ever been in, or around, a tractor trailer, or if Coyote gave them any frame of reference for what it was like to be an owner operator with their own authority. He answered no to both.

I then offered to give him a ride along, either if/when I am out in the Chicago area at some point in the future, or if Coyote was willing to fly him out to our operating area. My point to him was, if you don't understand the transportation industry from the 'boots on the ground' level, how, as the project manager for business development, did he hope to develop/expand/reach out to the single-truck owner operator, the five truck operation, or even the 20 truck operation?

He didn't seem too keen to want to hop in the shotgun seat of a semi with some dude he didn't know, who he probably has preconceived notions of (most of which are, in all likelihood, not positive). I doubted that he would have taken me up on the offer, even though it was a real one. My point was to get him to think a little more outside of that office he works in, and take into consideration that not all of us truckers are a bunch of blockheads who only know how to hold a steering wheel and jam gears.

Overall, it was a pleasant conversation, and I'm not so sure that anything I said really made an impact, but maybe, just maybe, something will be a spark that will get him to consider just how hard we actually work for every penny they pay (or don't pay) us.

I will say this: at least they made the effort to call. That's more than a lot of other companies will do nowadays, and actually more than I expected.

In reviewing some of what other posters put on this thread (don't worry, I'm still discounting those with a total post count of '1'), I guess Coyote is about average when it comes to brokers. Some good freight, some not so good freight. I actually spoke to someone I respect a lot today, who isn't on this site, and he mentioned Coyote as one of the better brokerages he deals with.

So, take this for what it's worth, and remember - you didn't pay anything for my opinion!

 

And that, folks, says it all for me.

I had the feeling that there were shenanigans afoot, even when Mario called me...

...guess I can still trust that 'gut' feeling.

 

Just received a carrier agreement from Coyote. After reviewing, it seems like an ok company. However, I do have concerns regarding the loads. Does anyone know if they truly have loads available in the southeast?