brokers, riddle me this ?

There was a load posted earlier today, California to NY, the mileage figure on the posting was 2450.....

It went straight across I80, no state highways involved, in fact using a state hwy would add to the trip...

Google map miles 2840.

2840.

And the load had stops....

Brokers, when you do this we counter by being high on our rates......

And we won't "work" with you.

When you adopt a mindset where you're thinking you're going to take advantage of someone, what happens is those who you're trying to take advantage of respond in kind...

Like Rollin Coal has said many times....

We are in charge, because we don't need your load.

We take a "take it or leave it attitude".....

Works both ways.

Have a nice day.

 

I have had this conversation with a couple of our "favorite" brokers on TTR. Both came up with the same lame excuse.

"we do that so that our competitors can't figure out who our shippers / receivers are and under bid us."

At least it was an answer I can half believe. They went on to explain if they advertise the actual towns, the lack of shippers in that community would be a dead give away and others would underbid them.


uh, sure. You get the service you pay for.

 

TQL, UTI, Etc. are on my "DO NOT CALL" list. I pray I will never be hungry enough to take them off!!

 

LOL!! I like to call them and give them my "pitch"....

"Hi, I'm trees, I'm calling about the load you have posted, I'll do it for a million dollars, let me know if that works for you...."

lol....

 

Oh man a million bucks, now that is funny stuff right there, I got to try that one sometime soon.

 

I agree, I still call TQL sometimes if nothing else but for amusement. I have gotten a couple good rates from them. Only because they were desperate and I think they had no choice. I hit them for a 8 dollar a mile load about a year ago. The only reason they accepted it was I had the only step deck with ramps close to the state dock's on Friday afternoon, and the load had to be out of the state docks by 3:00 PM or it was going to cost them to some major storage fee's if it sat there over the weekend. That is about the only real good load I have ever had from those clowns. the rest of the time you have to argue to get anything over 2 bucks a mile out of them.

 

I had an experience with TQL, called on a load I wanted, it was gone, they wanted me to take a different load I didn't want so I threw out a rate so high I thought they'd never take it, then they did. Shoot! I had no idea they were that desperate for drywall in Sidney, MT.