“The brokers make too much”

Thank you. Hard times always bring out the socialist of the group. Let’s all be taken care of one way or another. Except the fact that if your not in the cool crowd, all of a sudden you can’t truck on your own at all. So, now let’s ##### about that and things should all of a sudden be not regulated again. Can’t please people who can’t be pleased. They should just pop out like 5 kids and live off food stamps and welfare. Would be a hell of a stimulus check.

 

Yes. An owner operator with 12 year old Mc and clean record pays less then a new MC with a 12 year clean driving record.

But I’m not talking about that.

If you read my posts you would have seen that my opinion is regulating Brokers like they regulate owner ops.

It’s to make sure brokers don’t double broker loads, to make sure brokers once tendering rate cons don’t simply cancel because they found a cheaper rate.


All I’m saying is it’s to easy for brokers to get away with it.

 

Dude, brokers are regulated in the same type of way anybody else is. Carriers double broker just like brokers do. Carriers cancel rate cons just like brokers do.

 

Maybe Jimmy Hoffa still alive, I mean after all we’ve never found his body. He’d know how to deal with brokers.

I’ve always had an issue with people who make a living with an element of BSing in their craft. Realtors, brokers, etc. People who get paid more than what they deserve for the job they truly do.

The sad reality is that truckers don’t realize the power they have over things. If I was a little bit younger of a man I might try to unite you all in a similar fashion to the Way Hoffa did it back in the union days. Y’all could bring this country to its knees in three days and you’re out there fighting with brokers trying to get a fair cut of what you deserve. Too bad The art of organizing and working together is dead in this country. In the meantime,? Y’all just have to keep giving up a fair share of what you deserve to the people pushing papers and fast talking

 

Would you like somebody else to decide if you're being paid more than you deserve for the job you truly do?

 

Organized labor putting an overinflated price on the value of labor and retirement benefits is what drove manufacturing out of the US in the first place, and is what has been bankrupting cities across the US. Unions had a place in the early part of the 20th century, but they overstepped their bounds and priced themselves out of a job by making unrealistic demands on the companies they worked for. Government jobs are the new organized labor from city to federal government jobs. They get pay and benefits that those of us in the private sector can only dream of, which is why everybody wants those jobs.

Yes truckers could organize and shut down the entire country. But so could doctors/nurses, firemen, cops and any number of other jobs that are necessary to keep the country going.

 

I’m 56 years old. Do you know how many times I’ve used a doctor or nurse for anything medically related in my life? Zero. Will it eventually happen, of course. Cops? Well I position myself pretty much realize that they show up after the fact to do a report. If you want to be safe in this country you have to know how to defend yourself. Got that covered. Firefighters? Basically the same as cops. 70% of the time when they are called to a fire, the structure burns To a total loss.

Truck drivers? We decide to stay home for even just three days? And people will lose their ####. Why? Because the average American goes to the store to buy something they deem essential every day. And everything in that store came on the truck. Their lives will unravel within 72 hours.

While I agree with the sentiment, I’ve take any and all advantages when it comes to an income as broker certainly do. You drivers out there realize they’re taking any and all advantages on the back of the work you do. I.e. they’re taking from you the driver. If you’re cool with that. Then so be it.

 

Then campaign for that one specific thing. No need to toss out the baby with the bath water.

Why are you not writing your contracts to cover the loss of revenue? And suing if they default on the contract?

 

Then don't pull for those brokers, I've got a few that are such garbage that I won't even call on a load through them.

 

You know, I advocate for bigger government in certain areas. I advocate for smaller government in other areas. I don't see why the government should put a cap on how much one business earns over another. I say get your money how you get it. Those in favor of that are probably impatient new owners that thought they would turn profit immediately, or they have an inability to negotiate, develop relationships, network and such. I also saw somewhere that some drivers think the brokers should post prices, or that other drivers should post the rates they've earned for a particular run in the past. I find both to be ridiculous. People hate competition. What can I say.