Dropping the ball on a broker.

Haven't heard one of those in a good year and a half.

I did have a customer recently want me to pickup at 6pm on a Saturday and run it straight to Memphis to put on an airplane. That's as close as I've come. They didn't care what it cost, the job has to be done. I think that's what we all dream of.

 

They'll never beg you on their knees. It will be more or less an initial refusal of a crazy rate you're asking for and then awhile later a call back and "OK. I'll pay you that..."

I am not sure, if that's what the op is asking about but I would be skeptical to hear stories of someone, who got an offer of say...8 grand on a dry van from Chicago to New York City...but you never know, you never know...

 

I hesitate to add a good story on this forum but here goes.

This passed July I had a driver with a straight truck sitting in Texas at her sisters house resetting her hours. She gets a call from a very large carrier that we never worked with before to help out with a distressed load. She was offered $5k to dh to DAL airport outside Dallas, take something off a truck that was confiscated by the a federal authority that was loaded right off the a plane and take it 1/2 mile to a warehouse.

She was told that was the only offer, she had 15 minutes to take it and was given a number to call back.

She called me and asked what to do, I said take it.

When she got there, she went through three document checks, they told her where they wanted the truck then told she was to stay in the truck no matter what.

They took it off the truck, loaded it, strapped it and followed her to the warehouse than they unloaded it. They even swept out the box, wrapped the straps up nice and neat and even folded all the shipping blankets including the ones they didn’t use.

She filled out a bol with the words “unknown object” on it. She knows it was 1100 lbs because the onboard weight gauge.

When we got the bol from her we invoiced it to the carrier and we waited. A week later someone came by and dropped off a check from the carrier, they said it was too important not to hand deliver. The odd thing is the person said they traveled from California to hand deliver the check.

 

Talljoe,

Last Christ mass my boss was paid almost 6k. For one pallet of car parts from Ohio to Niagara ny.
But the agent keep me awake by her million phone calls. Wouldn't do it sgain

 

Happy New Year. 300K gross on 50 000 miles to everybody in 2020!

 

One wonders what in the hell your driver got themselves into...

 

UFO?

 

Honestly? I'm thinking it was a *####load* of drugs.

 

I want more Christmas stories