Cutthroat

Sounds like she’s just a miserable person.

Unfortunately she had 20 other calls and doesn’t care about you. Bad broker IMO. You should always have respect no matter what court the balls in.

 

I wasn't wrong.
They gave the load to someone else.
They don't have to wait 10 minutes for anybody
Right now.
That's reality.
It's their price, you can take it or leave.

 

Do you have any idea how much verbal abuse the brokers are taking right now from carriers? I guarantee you she is just another minimum wage overworked slave like us. The people getting rich on the bid/ask spread hire minions to take the abuse from us. And she gets it all day long.

I was an equipment exporter for a while. Certain equipment was hot in egypt or south america. Sure, i just love a lowball offer in fractions of english at 3am after i just got the baby back to sleep. I probably sounded a lot like her for some of my calls.

 

While I do agree she probably is a bad broker, here's another possibility.

She probably has her phone ringing off the hook since there's so many trucks available to loads available.

She probably figures if she can take care of every load with one phone call she can do more business in a given day. It probably does take more time and effort to wait for a Carrier to fill a packet out or to change their insurance.

Not that I'm saying that it is right or that it is good business practice.

Never feel bad about getting what you can when times are good. Eventually the shoe will be on the other foot.

And you know where they will be shoving it.

 

Because she knew somebody was waiting to haul it for $300

 

Why is everyone starving for freight right now? I’m kind of lost.

 

You can't be serious.
Look at all the business that are closed.
All those trucks and drivers are looking
For something else to pull.

All that freight is gone for the time being.
Now we have a whole lot more trucks
Than freight to pull.
That's why brokers are pushing the rates in the toilet.
They know somebody will take it,no matter how
Cheap it is. Barely enough to pay for fuel.

 

Weawwy?

Step outside and see everything CLOSED UP.

ALL of that needs trucking.

Only the most essential gets loaded and rolling, everything else is parked. There is no money in it.

Regarding Scott, that little twit could not be bothered to wait 5 #### minutes for a dab of insurance boilerplate. Sucks to be her. Especially if it appears showtime was the following day.

 

Sorry that one happened man. Best guess is like others have mentioned- she was trying to play the 'slice the other brokers' throats' game.

I had a guy email about a load I had posted last night after hours. I was happy to hold it for him, but the load was for a customer who I do exclusive work for, and with a carrier that we as a company have been working with for about a year or two now. IF it were a rush situation like that, though- I can see maybe trying to lock someone else up just to make sure I didn't get beat out by some schmuck from TQL or King of Freight, or something. I would've probably handled it more professionally, though.