Freight Broker?

Hey driver, if you're good and can shake and move via telephone, fax and computer I know a guy with a small biz in PGH PA that would love to sign you on.

 

Is this a good way to make money on the side???? I drive trucks but I want to try something new......I dont want to get my own loads but test it out for a company.......How do i get in to it??? How much does it cost??? exc.???

 

No. Freight broker training is a scam. If you want to be a broker, just apply at a freight brokerage or at a trucking company that has a brokerage division. You don't need a degree or formal training. It's just a lot of phone and computer work. You'll be a glorified telemarketer, that's all.

 

For real i called up this company they told me $2,000
www.freightbrokerageschool.com It looks legit they have a training class coming up

 

CR England freight brokerage school?? I can't read your tone if you posted this as a joke or were serious. If it was as a joke, then you have a marvelous sense of humor!! On the other hand, if you meant it to be serious...

My personal opinion, for what it's worth, is that you'd be better off putting that $2000 into as many credits as you can get at a community college toward a general business degree. A respectable brokerage or trucking company will look more favorably at that than a broker's license (which is a made up license and not worth the paper it's printed on). All employers will want to train you into the way that they do things, and any 'book knowledge' that you may get from those classes will just get in the way of your training and confuse you. All a broker's license shows a trucking company is that you're a sucker and enjoy giving money away, and those aren't good traits to have as a broker.

I wish you the best. I'm not trying to be a jerk, I just want to give you good advice and not sugar coat the facts. Put that money and time toward a general business degree at a real school, that will open your opportunities both inside and outside of trucking.

 

Thanks..........I heard brokers make good money so i wanted to try it out ....I guess dispatcher would be better

 

If anyone knows of a brokerage that will take on inexperienced agents please let me know. I've contacted a few and they only want people that already have a going business. I already have more than one degree from a community college, years in an office, but only a small amount of drive time. In my area I can't even get a dispatcher job, much less a broker's agent. I have a clean background and MVR, but don't have a list of contacts. My only contacts were through my ex.

 

Most brokerages want to hire agents that have contacts already. That is the only positions I have seen open.

 

I had thought about doing this also since I have been driving long enough and the miles are not getting any shorter, come to find out freight is plentiful here in Florida it is the lack of O/O wanting to come down since so many have been ripped off.

I have been investigating via reliable load boards available and found 10 loads today paying very good rates, they all went to LandStar at 5pm.

I do know a few brokers and they have been a good sounding board, one advised a buffer account of 50k to pay drivers when a shipper stiffs you and you can pay the O/O and keep good relationships and not disclose the dirty side out to others.

Another broker recommended extra insurance, I will post the name of it once it can be harvested from the long email his wife sent.