What brokerages have their own loadboads?

Interested in the answer on this also.

 

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anyone that list their offering prices?? that would help to know who to call and reduces the phone call craze trying to get a decent paying load

 

Very few of them do. Hub Group sends out an email list with the prices on the loads. DAT load board tells you what the averages were on any given lane for the previous 15 days. Which most of them will quickly pay if the bottom hasn't fallen out. Really you should know what you need and what you can get on your given lanes with no need for a price on anything.

I look at loads with posted rates first only to gauge the market. But they're the last ones I ever call on and usually when I do I seldom book them for posted rates unless I really need the load. You need to learn some lanes inside and out. Learn what you need and what you can get.

This stuff takes time and a lot of wasted calls. Eventually you will learn what to call on and what not to - to the point where you actually spend very little time looking for good paying freight. Post up. Make them call you. That's the easiest way. Depending on posted prices all the time you're never going to learn any of that and will always be running at the brokers' anchor point on price.

 

Listen to the man. He knows his stuff.

I was once afraid to make calls. In fact I hate talking on the phone. I would much rather text or email. However, dial these brokers like it ain't you know what to you. Once you place a few hundred calls it'll become routine. Anything else and your cutting yourself short big league.

 

I still like email. I use all options. Circumstance is everything. Never rule out anything. You figure out what works best for any given situation. What's funny about email is you get a broker up several hundred or even a thousand or a lot more than what they anchored a rate at and copy in your buddies on it. My buddies have seen it all before though they do it to. Lol

 

That's pretty much what I do. I can tell within a few minutes where the offering rates will be on the lane on run.

A couple of calls, quotes and posted rates is what it takes.

Without knowing where the rate is going to be in a given time frame leaves you open to get hosed or to leaving money on the table.

I called on a Landstar offering on Thursday.

The guy quoted me $2500, which is where the lane was at. I have a good performance record running the few loads I have for them.

I hesitated and he said, "$2700". I balked again and he said, "$2900." So, in a matter of 30 seconds, he jumped $400 or 16%. Easy pick up from where I delivered, going right to where I wanted to go. I was happy with that number and booked it.

 

Another thing I do even after I've picked a load and am running is to check the loadboard for that same day towards the afternoon and search the highest posted rates to guage how I did.

Friday's especially will give you an indication of how things shake out.

 

You know what's screwed up is around me for the past year Fridays have always been dead and a lousy time to book an above average rate on van or reefer. Seems like Monday and Tuesday are the best times for that then it dies down progressively until Friday. That's the exact opposite of how it used to be and goes against conventional thinking but that's what I see. I know guys in other areas who see the same thing.