Totally my fault, as I knew better.
Talked a broker up 50% from his offer on a load from BFE Pennsylvania down to Maryland. It was a 70 mile deadhead, but came out to just over $2/mile with d/h included, and I wanted the load for positioning for a Monday pickup of a good paying load to get me out of the northeast for a while.
We'd done business with this outfit before (Ultra Logistics, 201 458-1016), so they faxed the rate con to the office for a signature and I headed towards the shipper. After about an hour, I called the broker to check on the status. The person that answered the phone said that the broker I talked to was busy, and that he'd check on it for me. Came back on and said we hadn't been put on the load yet since the rate con hadn't been signed and faxed back. Got my information again, where I was, driving hours available, etc. I called the boss, and he jumped on the paperwork and faxed it back in.
So, I hit a truck stop 15 miles from the town that the shipper is in and call the broker again to get the dispatch information. "Oh, we tried to contact you for 2 hours and never got an answer, so we had to give the load to someone else." WTF? No sense arguing, I hit the load board and found a BETTER paying load going to the same place I needed to be in MD, picking up 40 miles further down the road, and with a drop that allowed me to get in a 34.
Yes, I know - get the dispatch in writing before heading for the shipper. But we'd done business before, so I wrongly expected that a handshake was good enough. I highly suspect that they found someone to haul the load for the posted rate and pocketed the difference.
So, I fell victim to a stupid broker trick...
Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by windsmith, Jun 16, 2012.
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