Brokers blacklisting me because of no inspections-Blaming Highway

I still have not gotten an inspection, good to see you can see a difference with brokers.

 

You're right and most likely it is facilitating fraud.

 

The BS seems to have picked up since January.

 

Man, sorry to hear it. That's backwards. You run clean, stay outta the scales, and now that's the thing holding you up. Profile pic makes a lotta sense now lol

Part that gets me is you know exactly why and there's still nothing you can do about it, since you can't make a roadside happen. You ever offer to send em your annual DOT inspection? wondering if that'd move the needle at all, or if they only care about the roadside kind.

 

86scotty, glad it eased up for you. We went through the same wall last year. Ten years, no claims, no crashes, and brokers started bouncing us because the Highway profile had "no inspections" next to our name. Nobody at the broker looked past that one screen.

What worked for us was giving the broker something to look at instead of the Highway page: our annual DOT inspection, insurance cert, and a one page sheet with our FMCSA record and the brokers we already run for. Half of them took it, the rest were not worth chasing.

The part that still bothers me is that carriers have no say in it. Highway sells the broker a score on us, and we cannot rate the broker back. Nobody asks the carrier how the broker paid or how many times the rate got cut after pickup.

Curious, are the brokers who blacklisted you still on Highway only, or did any of them switch to other vetting?

 

86scotty, that PDF of old inspections is a smart move, we ended up doing something close to it. Ours is one page: the annual DOT inspection, the insurance cert, and a short list of brokers we already run for with somebody who will pick up the phone and vouch for us. The brokers who actually care about safety take it. The ones who are just clearing a screen never will, and no piece of paper is going to change that.

What still gets me is how one sided it is. They pull a score on us in ten seconds, and we get to guess from one phone call whether a broker pays in 30 days or 75 and whether the detention on the rate con is real. Everything we know about the broker side is word of mouth, threads like this one, and whoever we happen to know.