Co-Broker vs Double-Broker

Is this throwback 70's tuesday? ICC went in 1980 with the Motor Carrier Act and was replaced with the OMC(office of motor carriers)later replaced with the FMCSA. Rate submission left with it.

 

Agreed, I have a friend that sells our services and gets exactly the rates we want. He tacks on his percentage to our rates, and I am sure the other party does as well. He keeps it limited to no more than three parties, we have found that when to many cooks get into the kitchen, it spoils the stew.

A major broker paid us to position a truck in MI this past weekend, they paid for the truck all the way from IA to MI so that our driver would be there on the 4th to PU and deliver in AL on the 5th if we had not done so the plant would have not been able to work on Monday. If anybody thinks that was done for cheap they are sorely mistaken. My operator is on his way home to IA and will be taking 5 days off and not even miss the pay. This one load paid him so much that he could actually take two weeks off. We did not break it off in our customer, they offered us the money. Choice loads always pay better then normal loads. We would never have had that opportunity without our relationship with that broker. I do not have enough trucks to work for that shipper direct, our broker on the other hand does. While a lot of us may hate the dishonest ones, those that are smart know we need the honest ones to get the choice loads that would not normally be available to us.

 

Thought you might find this interesting: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/49/13702

If you continue to research you will find more and more in depth that the tariff submissions still exist. Take a look out there at some of the Mega-Carriers, they have them published in PDF's for you to read. Now as you can see not all products that are carried are under the tariff requirement, but if you read closely most of those products are covered by this CFR. It is quite simply amazing when you get to see the law in person, is it not?

 

Thought you might find this interesting as well:

(a) Liability of Consignee.— Liability for payment of rates for transportation for a shipment of property by a shipper or consignor to a consignee other than the shipper or consignor, is determined under this section when the transportation is provided by motor carrier under this part. When the shipper or consignor instructs the carrier transporting the property to deliver it to a consignee that is an agent only, not having beneficial title to the property, the consignee is liable for rates billed at the time of delivery for which the consignee is otherwise liable, but not for additional rates that may be found to be due after delivery if the consignee gives written notice to the delivering carrier before delivery of the property—
(1) of the agency and absence of beneficial title; and
(2) of the name and address of the beneficial owner of the property if it is reconsigned or diverted to a place other than the place specified in the original bill of lading.
(b) Liability of Beneficial Owner.— When the consignee is liable only for rates billed at the time of delivery under subsection (a), the shipper or consignor, or, if the property is reconsigned or diverted, the beneficial owner is liable for those additional rates regardless of the bill of the lading or contract under which the property was transported. The beneficial owner is liable for all rates when the property is reconsigned or diverted by an agent but is refused or abandoned at its ultimate destination if the agent gave the carrier in the reconsignment or diversion order a notice of agency and the name and address of the beneficial owner. A consignee giving the carrier erroneous information about the identity of the beneficial owner of the property is liable for the additional rates.

Now you can see why we get paid a premium when the shipper/broker messes up on their information.

 

Might actually read it. HHG and water carriers. I'm not a "mega-carrier" but i have rules circular that i always try to use when bidding under my common authority. You do not have to file with the FMCSA.