Why do brokers not post appointment times, wasting our time?

Yeah the reasoning most brokers use is that they want to talk to as many people as possible. That's why certain brokerages whose names start with three letters will post the same load out of 5 different cities none of which are where it is actually picking up.

Personally I post everything on the load. I don't want to talk to you unless you want the load either.

 

Only way to combat this is to post your truck in 10 different cities..

 

Is the reason they want to talk to as many people as possible because they know that a driver with no negotiation skills of any kind will come along and take that load at the posted cheap rock bottom rate? I like your style put all the cards on the table from the start why waist each others time by sitting on the phone all day.

 

You want to work half day on Saturdays??
I Did at times.........7 am to noon on Saturdays...

Problem is, Not Many Open on Weekends to accept Truckload stuff going to many businesses or Warehouses

I have a few Hardware stores or Lumber stores that receive Saturdays

The Brokers want you to work like them-Monday thru Friday Pick-ups and deliveries only-

You want weekend work? Gotta find it yourself

Wipper- Where do you Live- Find Businesses in your Area That can Give you Some Weekend Work or at Least Half day on Saturday.

 

There is actually appointments? HA.

You will be told when they deem it necessary for you to know and not a minute before driver. Usually when the your late call comes in.

Weekends are a time to cross the USA for monday am deliveries.

 

There's a school of thought that suggests that one spread out the cities in the geographic area for two reasons: 1) to deceive any other brokers, or trucks with direct customers out there who realize that they may be playing a competing game and 2) to maximize viewership on a set of loads. If for instance, I have a load picking up in Jeffersonville, IN, it might get posted for Louisville, KY as well. Jeffersonville and Louisville have nothing but a river between them. Or, a more extreme example- if I'm trying to get someone to pick up a load in Frankfort, KY- I might post the load as both Louisville and Lexington. This maximizes the viewership over a wider geographic area, and gets potential interested parties on the line that wouldn't have seen it because of X,Y or Z factors.

I'm actually not a fan of this. I'd rather deal with interested parties from the jump. For me, simply posting the PU and DO locations with the basics of the load works pretty well. I always put dimensions and weight in. I gave up on checking the requirement boxes on ITS a while ago. The amount of people who would call on a team load without a team was staggering. I tend to put that info in the additional info box on ITS, and on DAT.

 

If you post on the DAT boards as a regular load and not team, I might never see it. I wouldn't bother setting email alerts for non team as it would spam my inbox. The only reasons I can think of to stumble across that posting would be if the offer was abnormally high, or I was bored enough to rummage through all posts.

 

Yeah, fair. I'm mostly talking ITS, in that case.