What's the deal?

When I search for freight in a city do you know what I look for? Price, if the price is posted then I don't have to do any cold calling. It also tells me the broker is proud to tell you about the rate, I don't call the postings that don't have prices because I can believe that price is not as good. I really like how landstar will send you prices of the freight that your looking for.

 

i won't call on loads with no rates. cuz every call has been below my rate.

there's also the matter of loads not being completely posted. how can you expect a driver to have a rate in mind. when all you post is start to finish. but when they call. there's now 5 stops which obviously bumps the miles up. OR. it's an oversized.

some of you may have had good luck on no rate posted loads. but i don't have that many minutes to waste my time on a 2 dollar load that ends up being 1.50 by the time all the stops are done. or even 1 dollar after all permits are purchased.

there's also the loads that have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING posted about em.

kind of hard to expect an honest phone call for a load when the load is absent of all pertinent details.

i pull open deck. so put all the details out there. all the stops. and the length of the load. and weight. GIVE us what we need, and we'll tell U what we need. before agreeing to a rate.

 

If im working partials im reluctant to beat you guys up to much till I.have a good idea what I can.put together.


Let me ask the driver is probably mostly just deflection for some reason

 

Maybe you can just post the rate an save time.

 

You have to understand the way the new generation thinks. They don't want to go do their job and get on to something else. They want to have a dialogue on why things are like they are and waste more time doing that than it would have taken to just do it and move on. When I started if the boss told you to do it you did it and got on to the next thing. Never mind what you thought about it. Now employees want to have a debate instead about why we do things the way we do, etc, etc. Kids nowadays are taught that "their opinion counts" and when they get out in the workforce I think it shocks them a little bit that the boss does it his way, and if you don't want to do it his way, then you can hit the door. This may be the first time they experience that in their lives. The job is what it is. Brokers are in the sales business. Time gets used up on dead ends. I wonder what the boss would think if he knew his people were on here lamenting potential business to be "wasting my time" as they classified it. People don't want to hear the truth just like it is buddy they want to hear an affirmation of their opinion of the way things should be.

 

Alright people, this thread has some potential for both sides, but the childish antics will not be tolerated. If you do not have anything to contribute then move on.