Double Brokering

Thanks for your honesty. There are so many 1 truck operations on this forum that brag about having so many direct customers and never haul broker freight, blah blah blah but in reality they might have 1 "direct" mom & pop shipper and that's all. Shippers require multiple trucks going 100 different directions. They just don't have the time nor energy to be tendering 1 load here and 1 load there. They want to be able to give dozens or even hundreds of loads at one time to 1 carrier or 1 broker. The truth is a broker can be so much more diverse than a carrier can be. You as a carrier might only run a certain lane whereas a broker has no limits, it can find a truck basically anywhere. And when I say carrier, I'm not referring to a one-man show. I don't know how many decent customers even work with O/Os. Live by the broker, Die by the broker, unfortunately.

 

not to mention shippers can be as big of a pain in the butt as brokers to deal with if not more so !! All they see is these huge checks going out and they picture it like driving from point to point in their car, well not all but most shippers naturally think they are getting robbed on trucking and feel entitled to constantly place new demands, shorter time windows, more waiting, etc... With a broker at least you are free again once you get their load off your truck !

 

Well the big blue star is double brokering again.
They are posting a cat exc. from Baltimore to Houston.
Found out it is from another company and they took it off their ld. board.
They are offering 1000.00 less than the orginal broker.
Matter of fact 2 of their agents are listing the ld...

 

Yes there are brokers who double broker (which is illegal) however co-brokering is not and there is a fine line and difference- the co-brokering is 2 brokers sharing one commission fee. In my own contract it states No double brokering. however if I have the truck and the other broker has the load we can work together if we do not charge 2 fees. Example- I get have a truck will to go to from Vegas to Buffalo NY but no load- the other broker has a load for that lane paying 6500. If we work together and charge a 15% fee, we offer the truck 5525. The other broker and I would split the 975 fee.

 

Heck I'd take $5,525 for that any day! But I'm sure that was just an example

 

Yes it was for that case but I get loads from Salinas to Buffalo the pay around 6000 -6500 and in summer more (winter months it does drop) those are Reefer loads ( produce) and I only take 15%. I want to be fair to the drivers as well. I know of some brokers who take more than that.

 

Do you have a specialty in freight? I know some good brokers that only handle certain types of freight or commodities is why I am asking.

 

I will not do Hazmat or heavy haul as of yet. I am looking for carriers that have fb, vans or reefers. As I have stated in other posts I am a new broker and trying to build both shipper and carrier lists.

 

Government loads are usually double and triple brokered.....