Cheapest Brokers?

Atlas SN want some one to help them with this cheap load to hecktic world of Piscataway NJ with all kind of tolls bad traffic , and no freight area. They are looking for help on Friday also. Please make a note ontract rate shows arround 2.79 a mile and market is better than $3.0 mile.

 

Good day all,

Forgive my ignorance as I'm a total noob when it comes to load boards (still have alot to learn about trucking in general), but in regards to the contract and market/spot rates that some of you have mentioned, are they given as what the going rate is from what the shippers are paying before a broker gets their cut, or do those rates come from brokers as what the average is paid to the truck after they have taken their cut?

In short, are those rates the average of what the shippers are paying or what the brokers are paying to the carriers?

Thanks!

 

This is what brokers are paying to the truck

 

Its not that carriers lower their rates low, but they are ganging up on small ones. Like myself I brought a load to Fort Myers FL, sat in Tampa FL on Friday with no sensible offers from brokers. So I dead headed to Macon GA, been here 3 days. They are ganging up on me and I am not able to book a load for a reasonable market price going back north east . Some how they have the info that I have to get back by this Thursday, so they are offering me these loads at about $1000 to NJ, as I posted the one by "Landstar In way" in a separate thread. The market from Atlanta area to North East is approx $3/mile at minimum, because you are going to a bad area both market wise and traffic wise. So they made me run empty from Florida to GA and now to NJ. And that’s a real gang up.

 

ALL and I mean ALL brokers are going to TRY to get you to take the freight cheap,, it's up to you to say no and tell them what you'll take it for.

After you agree to take the cheap freight,, as the broker is hanging up the phone,,, he is saying,,,, ANOTHER SUCKER!!!!

 

What can you do if they monopolize the market and they all tell you $1000 to NJ from Atlanta GA, Cordele GA, or Tampa FL.
I have spent two days at each location and some how they are telling me it pays $1000. That includes Landstar In way, EXXACT Express, TQL, Epes Logistics. I post my truck for anywhere and did not show any signs, that I had a school function to attend for my kids on Friday, but some how, some one had to inform them that I had to be back by Thursday/Friday and that’s why they will be successful in manipulating me to take this load below the cost of operation. I have to move north so I am headed empty to north. Are there any laws for monopolizing the market??

 

Monopolizing the market, you just named 4 brokers alone.....Seriously though, you are quick to label a cheap broker for anyone that doesn't give you what you think it should, it's like the boy who calls wolf.

Freight in GA and FLA right now is very....lean....not much of it, so yea, the prices are going to drop, it's not the brokers who know this.....it's the shippers who PAY the brokers....so they aren't paying $3 a mile to the broker so the broker can pay you $2 a mile, they are paying $2 a mile so the broker is offering a $1 a mile, does it suck, absolutely, don't go to GA then...or get paid more to get down there...either way....just because a broker doesn't give you what you want does not make them a cheap broker....

 

This time of year is just better to avoid going to Georgia/Florida even If you get a good rate. Going there guarantees you'll have to take cheap freight or deadhead. The only time I take my drivers there is If I can get more than $3/mile, If not I won't bother.

 

Unisource out of Mechanicsburg PA , all of their loads seems to be listed way below the market for example the attached listings is for Charlotte NC to Cumberland MD, market calls for $1700 and they will list it for $1000. If some one does not know the market , he probably will counter close-by and barely make it for fuel only, because coming south does not pay much to make any profit. And they pocketed an extra $700 for just playing stupid saying that, that’s the market ( Just if you go to buy a gallon of milk and ask if the price is $2.00 they will tell you take a hike.)

 

They have updated the price to whopping $1100. I would avoid calling them all togaether.