An old man's career goes flat, Snackbar moves to open deck

It’s been years since I’ve been asked to download an app for a broker. But the vast majority of the “broker” freight I do is for our sister companies.

 

Yeah I remember that load. I’m pretty level headed, but I would have come unglued on that ####ing desk jokey calling me in the middle of the night. I let a landstar broker have it for calling me at 0500 one time for a 0600-1500 appointment window. I was less then thrilled.

 

My company asked me if I was okay with that sort of stuff or not shortly after i started and i said no. They apparently keep a list of what drivers will or won’t haul broker loads that require a tracking app. I haven’t been bothered about those loads since

It’s not my job to keep track of your own freight. My job is to get it from point A to point B in a safe and timely manner. If you want to know where your load is, call my company, not me. All of our trailers have GPS tracking so they’d be able to tell you. If you’re so paranoid about where your freight is, maybe you should look for more reputable carriers to do business with

 

For me it isn’t so much about the personal information on my phone as it is they have zero reason to do that in the first place. Any reputable company has GPS tracking on their equipment, and obviously ELD’s track your position as well, so finding out where your load is, is as easy as contacting the company. There’s absolutely no reason for tracking apps in today’s world.

And even in the extremely rare case that a trailer is stolen, what’s a tracking app on a drivers phone going to accomplish? Their phone obviously stays with them, not the trailer

 

All of our trailers have tracking too. Brokers just want to babysit your loads. F… that

 

You can get a mint phone it’s only 15 bucks a month. I put all my work apps on that, it is used for nothing but work

 

Most of the brokers have EDI with the companies and can track it thru your Eld

 

With our samsara system they can generate tracking links that are load depended. I’ve been on the emails sent to certain customers with the link included. The customers that actually care about where the freight is, puts gps trackers in the actual freight. Probably more then we realize.