This happened almost 3 weeks ago. Living in an area with poor cell service, we have a home phone line. I rarely ever use it to conduct business. I have certainly never listed its number on anything even remotely business related. But a couple of weeks ago I was getting ready to head out on a run and was at my house. For the first time in months I used my home phone to call a broker we occasionally do business with. They are medium to large sized firm. I was on the phone with them for maybe 3 or 4 minutes.
Less than a minute after hanging up the phone with them, the home phone rings. Caller ID says Total Quality Logistics. Why is this weird? We aren't even set up to haul for TQL. I have certainly never gave them my home number. Any trucking related places they could have gotten my number, like a load board, would be my cell phone.
I answer the phone and the other end immediately asks if we are set for shipping and they have a lot of carriers ready to serve us. I definitely don't need such service since I work for a company that hauls it's own product and brokered freight in between. But I'm more interested in how they got this number. She says it just came up on her screen. She then says the name of the person she was calling, which isn't us. She then reads out the number she was supposedly calling, which isn't even close and not even the same area code. She apologises, says it won't happen again.
We rarely get wrong numbers or telemarketers on that line. It just seems like too much of a coincidence that the one time I call a broker from that phone, TQL mistakenly calls it a minute later.
Had a weird thing happen....
Discussion in 'Freight Broker Forum' started by WalterSobchak, Oct 6, 2015.
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They are nihilists and cowards.
WalterSobchak Thanks this. -
That broker you called may also work for TQL as an independent agent or the other way around. Many broker/agents work for multiple companies and on top of that run their own trucking company.
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I have had my home phone after making a call about ten minutes later call me. I look at the incoming number and it is my home phone.
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Landlines are totally public knowledge, and it goes all over, and nothing surprises me. I wouldn't even have a landline, but the phone company I get my internet through ( the only one in the town) requires it. Needless to say, I'm very careful what I say on the landline. ( and computer), Oh, oh, what's all these black Suburbans doing outside,,,hey, where are you taking,,,,,
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Want to get stalked real good? Sign up for Google Plus. If your real lucky, you'll be lucky enough to be the first (and only) person with your real name, thus getting national probably interplanetary exposure.
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I was thinking. You may have call waiting on your phone. If you hit the wrong button or hung up the phone causing it to do a fast click before hanging up it will call you back thinking you hung up on the original caller.
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I wasn't calling TQL and had never called TQL. I had called another freight broker unrelated to TQL. Just seemed like too much of a coincidence my home phone has never been cold called for anything trucking related before or since that day.
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Watched an interview with Edward Snowden today; he said you don't own your phone,you just think you do. It was amazing what he revealed about phones. He said you can turn your phone off and put it in your pocket, and the NSA and many other outfits, government and criminal, can remotely turn it on and listen to what you say just talking to someone in a cafe or anywhere.
Same with the technology companies like Swift are installing in trucks to watch and listen to the drivers.201 Thanks this. -
Big surprise. I told my kid, watch out with that DVR in your living room. I'm sure there's a camera in those too. She said, "Dad, you're too paranoid". I said, maybe so, but cable comes in, cable can go out too. George Orwell wasn't too far off with "1984", and that was written in 1949.
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