Not to be wish-washy but she may be looking to load you with multiple loads making more profit, kinda early to tell.
1st week almost over on my own numbers as a hotshot
Discussion in 'Expediter and Hot Shot Trucking Forum' started by crocky, Oct 25, 2019.
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I just looked, of course it is late in the day nothing paying anything. You can get on brokers email list once you been in business 6 months, that alone make things easier. The best loads never make it to the load board. The load board is a good way to start relationships with brokers. Sometimes just posting your truck is the best way. People who move freight on a regular bases can recognize the load and shipper when it appears on the load board. So if a broker does not have a carrier that he has done work with is not available he will call a posted truck before he puts it on the load board.
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Dispatch says she’s done all that. My truck is posted. Only restrictions right now is I don’t have chains, staying out of the snow areas, and trailer limit is 15k.
I know you have to wait time before loads get easier.
I figured to look around myself but I’d be paying for the same load boards that she uses. -
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True. I’m trying to stay positive. Just didn’t think it would be this bad.
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What do you use to fill out carrier packages while on the road?
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As far as copies of BOL's ect.. I take pictures of them once they are signed then I upload that picture to a img to PDF converter website like smallpdf.com. Again it's all a PITA to do but I do it..
What I plan to do, is I'm going to buy a Microsoft Surface Pro and that way I can just do everything include signing right on the windows based tablet..
You can do it all with adobe acrobat but man they charge way to much for it but maybe once I get my surface pro I may break down and buy it if I can't find a free open source option.
Oh and for creating a invoice I've just been using a online invoice creator for now.. invoice-generator.com
There are apps like Adobe fill & sign that work on android but to me it doesn't seem to work well.. Others say they have no problems with it but for me every time I try to use it on my tablet it can't find the PDF I just downloaded... it's really odd TBH..
Now I also have a generic copy of my insurance, my proof of DOT authority and my banking info all saved as a default PDF I can send over as well. Sort of like my own pre-made broker package.
The only thing I've really had problems with are cars, because you don't get a BOL handed to you by the shipper in most cases so you have to have some way to print or a way to let the customer digitally sign it. That's one reason I want to get a surface pro..Last edited: Nov 15, 2019
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