"but that's all I have in this one!"

Exactly....you book 8 to 10 loads a day or more...pretty good pay for sitting and making phone calls.....just saying you have nothing but phone and internet fees and maybe water bill to pay 800 to 1,000 a day 4 to 5 days a week....C'mon

 

It's not as easy as you think. We have to track the load hire good trucks, make sure it gets picked up in time, delivers on time handle multiple loads at once. And when I make that 150 I only get a certain percentage off of it. So that 150 might only be 50 dollars for me. And do you have any idea how much time and effort it takes to get to the point of having ten loads a day. Many hours at work 1000's of phone calls. Then you get the customer and get a truck that lies or is shady and loos the customer. Also remember that everything falls on the broker even if its not the brokers fault. I understand that you think you deserve the other 150 in the load but in order for you to get that little extra money on that one load you have to make the calls. You have to be able to sell yourself If that extra money is worth that to you then by all means go for it you have earned it.

 

And windsmith. I am the reason you get the higher paying loads and its nothing against the trucks but go ahead and try to get them on your own. Shippers don't want to mess with a one man show so take your blame off the broker and blame the shipper for not wanting to mess with you

 

I understand where you are coming from. And the carriers I use often do get paid more than others because I know them. If I have never done a load with you how would I know how reliable you are? Do you stick with a good broker or jump around?

 

I really don't know how brokers get customers in the first place I go around and make sale calls all the time and most want your set up packet how as just a broker can you provide that you don't have insurance you don't even own a truck

I have been in the office of a customer before when a dry call comes in I think it's funny when they asked how many trucks they had the lady said as many as you need when they talked about insurance she said thats provited by the driver LOL!!! this lady said she charged $2.20 a mile pluse fuel should of seen the look on my customers face he said so that's anywhere she said yes I charge this customer $3.45 /mi plus fuel all there loads go to south Texas or west Texas so brokers like that is why trucking is going to pot

 

We have some of our own trucks. And our brokerage department has insurance so I don't really know you mean by that. And yeah your right that is hy it's going to pot. But our job also is to help shippers save money

 

That's ridiculous. It's like saying two bucks a mile is always good. If that's how a broker chooses to do business that's fine. In expedite many of the smaller ones will do that in a pinch but not every load. It's business not charity or socialism. Go back and read thru my posts and see how many times I've complained about cheap rates. I'll save you some trouble it's zero. Don't carry the water for anyone that can't make good business decisions. That's on them and they need to take a thoughtful look in the mirror.

 

While shippers make huge profits on the stuff they ship? Shippers don't operate in the red like most truckers do shippers offer a product to make money not to brake even again like most truckers do!!

Brokers are dragging the trucking industry down by reaching to far in the cookie jar brokers cut each other to get that customer cutting and cutting at rates!!!