Trips/Tricks on loadboard and Brokers

Yes don't over think this. Regular lanes from brokers will always be based on the cheapest rate. It's a teeth gnashing way to the poor house. That's just how it is. Better rates are from irregular freight, seasonal. Pick a region and run it. Learn what freight is where, who has what, who has deep pockets and when. There are no fast, easy answers. It takes time to learn.

 

BASIC LOAD BOARDING


ADVANCED LOAD BOARDING


NEGOTIATING RATES

 

I think one of the tricks is to be up in the morning and dial the number quick. LOL. I was in Ontario, CA last Tuesday. 1.5 loads per truck. most of it intrastate. Anything posted on TruckersEdge was gone withing a few minutes. All that winter driving and no rewards. I'm done with California partials, at least for now. Las Vegas will ship shows in a month or two.

 

Why waste time on load board. Just call 800 580-3101.

 

Thats a number one should never call, ever. Lol. But why call anyone period? Calling anyone smacks of begging for a load and sounds desperate. Let them call you asking for a truck instead. If they're not calling wherever you may be get to a market where they are.

 

The Ontario market is almost always a brokers market. There is an abundance of "new canadians" trucking companies willing to work for peanuts. They screw up and customer learns life is easier to pay more and have it done right the first time. They are constantly being shut down by the ministry and then some time later they have a new authority. Round and round we go.

 

Load up pork destined for Mexico show up at shipper with a reefer. Take it to Detroit x dock it to a dry van. Drive it to laredo x dock it again to a reefer and deliver it to the x dock going to Mexico. Customs and fda don't care since it is not for US consumption. Customer only finds out the game when an inspection shows their load on all dry van rather than the reefer that picked the load up.

They won the work by underbidding everyone else. I guess they figured they were saving money by doing it. Another example that is blatantly obvious is you see how the doors often don't match the paint of the truck and all the company information is on said doors? Just switch the doors and plates to the next truck. It's sick what they come up with.

 

This plan worked until the Mexican inspectors showed up. Mexico bound meat loads get inspected at the border by Mexican inspectors. Waiting for those ######## has caused a lot of detention pay down in Laredo.