Calling Out TQL

TQL loads are also the main broker for free load boards as well. Probably says a lot. Most of the guys at the carrier I lease too who ran their own numbers dealed with these clowns. One said he had dreams about punching some of the brokers in the face.

 

He told me about a load going from Tampa to Tallahassee that paid $300. Was in shock. Considering we pickup water loads from zephyrhills that go 60 miles to kissimmee that pay $400.

 

Back after the industry was deregulated in the 80s JB Hunt got a bad reputation for hauling cheap freight and driving down freight prices in different areas. I guess TQL must of stole a page from JB's playbook.

 

That was the whole point of deregulation - make things better for the consumer, piss on the people who make it and get it there. We had the best communication system in the world until the People Who Know Everything decided to break up Bell Telephone. It went straight to hell and hasn't moved since

 

Because TQL hires college kids most of the time. These college kids don't have a job else where. They're taught only one thing. PROFIT. This is by any mean necessary. Keeping detention? Sure if you can get away with it, take that extra $100-$800 bucks. Cancel on a guy just cause you found a guy for cheaper and it puts an extra $300 in the pocket? CANCEL! Whatever it takes.

I can't deal with them. The sound of their voice on the phone, their numbers, you name it, I'll burn my trucks before I take another TQL load. What bothers me is I have their number blocked. They will call me of different numbers sometimes, and I hate when I have to be an a-hole. I simply don't want to work with them. When they call me blocked, and so on, I play a long until I tell them it will cost $20,000 or some off the wall number. They freak out and I tell them "i know it's crazy, but the truth is, I hate working with TQL and don't want your load at all, bother someone else".. One guy had a nerve to actually say that I am looking to make money, like no ####. Yes I'm looking to make as much as possible! Few times I actually debated on going to their office and ####ing a person up once they get out of work.

 

TQL....The bottom feeders of brokers as well as Coyote!

 

I think you guys have it wrong. Yeah sure there are a few bad apples but there are a lot more good brokers. If they were really that bad, how could they grow like they have? Mind you the growth has been without any acquisitions.I have talked to them numerous times and outside of a fake post here and there, they have been great for the last year.

 

I am broker, not at TQL, but about 1 mile down the road from them. They treat their workers like assembly line slaves, if you aren't making big margins in 8 weeks you are fired. The stress is insane, everyone drinks and does drugs. All of the stress, pressure, anger, and frustration that they put up with daily translates in how they deal with drivers.

Not sure why they are so special in their suckitude, but even within the industry they are regarded as some greasy, untrustworthy mothers.

 

This is what your helping to pay for......by hauling for these guys..