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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;blairandgretchen, post: 12316725, member: 76574&quot;]Are you pulling van or platform?</p><p><br /></p><p>On the platform side - only a very small percentage of the 210,513 and 619 agents have the slightest clue of what they&#039;re offering - they&#039;re just working off load lists from other brokers. They&#039;re not even based in the US - Ukraine, Philippines etc. There&#039;s usually no point in me talking to them - they still have to go through someone else to get the information you need.</p><p><br /></p><p>rates are always negotiable - just tell them what you need and they can only check and say no. </p><p><br /></p><p>My best advice is to find US based agents that have their own shippers, do a great job for them, and build a little book of &#039;good eggs&#039; to call, or that call you.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m surprised they even run that &#039;webinar&#039; thing these days - maybe they filter it out. &quot;50,000 loads on the board&quot; - is really only 5,000 - when you see the same load posted by 15 different agents - half the time the load is gone - hours or days ago, and they haven&#039;t removed it. </p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t even recommend them to guys pulling van - 65% LH is pretty steep pulling their trailer - you could buy your own, but then miss out on a lot of drop and hook. That $3/mile on the board will be $1.95 to your tractor on the loaded miles - I haven&#039;t looked at van for a while to see how the rates are.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>When I started in 2015 I set my load alerts at $2.50/mile, some weeks there&#039;d be 7 loads in a 300 mile radius - and they went pretty quick. When times get lean, you really want to have agents you&#039;ve worked with that have decent customers to see you through, but even that&#039;s not a guarantee. </p><p><br /></p><p>Hope some of that helps.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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