Posting For Good and Bad Brokers

And I thought that produce broker was reputable. He talked a good game and I don't normally suffer that kind of bull ####. I can usually detect the bull ####. But like I said I needed the work and figured wth.

 

I knew how the rest of the story was going to go when you said you pulled up to a field of hot squash lol.

 

Hahahahaha I know right I get Soo tired of these guys making up nonsense. 27 claims most insurance companies will drop you after the 1st claim let alone the 2nd one.

 

As they should lol. Nearly every big claim I've ever seen started with me or someone else borderline screaming 'You did WHAT now?' hoping to hear something, anything different than what this moron just said.

I bet most of your claims were reefer failure. That call is me saying 'Well crap dude that sucks... I'll get my claims department to start the paperwork'. It's insured... who cares?

The problem with these commodities is that they are EXTREMELY sensitive to someone being an idiot or super irresponsible. You do not want to know how many loads have been deleted because some driver decided to stop in his hometown to have a bender. You know what else counts as driver failure? A truck breaking down and sitting there for 3 days while the trucking company tries to figure out how to get it fixed as cheaply as humanly possible.


Look around the truckstop sometime and ask yourself if every single person you see should be trusted with something very time sensitive that is also very physically sensitive. (berries can be a claim because the reefer was off 5 degrees... these reefer failure claims can be HARD to prove if the driver is too stupid to immediately get a reefer printout that shows what it was running at and what it was set at.)

There are two sides to the story for brokers and perishables unfortunately. I'm fine making 8-12% on open deck stuff thanks. I know how much of that I get to keep. All of it.

 

Yeah really lol, live and learn total newbie. What I was sold was "It's ready to go now. Won't take long at all to load you".

Meanwhile I'm backed up to a barn and the local Amish are pulling up in horse carts dropping off squash to go in my truck.

They are serious old school but they did have power. The barn had this contraption with a horse on it walking on a treadmill generating electricity. I #### you not!

 

That may be the greatest thing I've ever seen.

 

It's really true. I have a coworker who does reefer loads on occasion. I see what he has to deal with on those, and I have no desire to deal with that. 98% of what I deal with is open load/unloads, no appointment. Show up to pick up on X date, drop it by Y date. If there's something else, then I'm let know straight away, and it's a simple matter of letting the drivers know.

 

That horse must give an output of 1 horsepower.

 

It's the new model. Does 1.36 hp. State of the art.

 

Shoot, I need to get some up to date specsheets on this.