Before you ever book a load with a broker, or vice versa - a broker booking a carrier, 411 check them. Check out their pay terms, safety scores...
www.carrier411.com - Sign up and report them. This is a beautiful tool for brokers and carriers. It is worth every penny. Post your discrepancy...
Question........ and I should know this..... Does the Alabama coil certification have to be for both suicide loaded coils and skidded coils? I...
Agreed. The only way to learn is to jump in with somebody. Honestly, the best learning tool would be to work with a trucking company for a year...
They are trained to post a load in every city within 150 miles of the actual loading city. So if the actual load is "Cincinnati - New York City"...
I get that completely, and yes it was a bit of a broker ranted post, lol. But please understand that we run 20 trucks as well. So I am doing...
I am looking at my numbers for the week..........They don't look very pathetic to me. My business is far from pathetic as well. I get my freight...
This has become a big business lately. Guys are dispatching for multiple owner operators on a daily basis for a percentage of each load. If you...
I think that the broker bond needs to cover a certain percent of business that you do and should be different for each company. 75k wont cut it...
To be completely honest, I've never even spoken to a person in that company or dealt with them. They mostly loaded our reefers (another...
I wasn't whining about the rates. Its summer there good buddy, I get it....rates are up. All I'm saying is don't sweat me all winter for my good...
Haha....Pound Puppy...... I need more guys with your sense of humor in my fleet. KUMBAYA my lord.....................Kumbaya............. All...
Well.........we are out almost 40k...............Northwind has closed the doors and from the looks of it, we are not getting a dime of what they...
I would highly recommend going to college and getting a degree. At least maybe get some sort of post business education and maybe take a job with...
Skimming???? If that is what you want to call it. It should be called quartering. I see it daily. An owner operator hauling for a company who...
Pound Puppy, you are clearly missing the point of my post. Yes, broker A is paying you $1000 more to move his load, it makes sense to take the...
So.... we all know that the brokers have had the upper-hand in the industry for many years. The trucking business is a Tsunami on the rise at the...
