Fingers crossed

Because thats a contract between them and their customer. Has nothing to do with the trucking company... Whats keeping you from going to their customer and undercutting them and steal their business if they had to share what they are getting paid... me personally i dont think its the trucking companies business what the broker is making off the load....

 

why should i care what they are making ? i call on a load and negotiate the rate to a number that i feel is good for me. what does it matter what the broker is making off the load.... i think some of you guys forget how essential brokers are, to the freight industry. they provide a service. either use them or go find ur own customers... they bridge that gap and bring the customers to you. so u negotiating a rate with the broker. that is between u and the broker . i dont see why it matters what rate they negotiated with THEIR customer... nobody is complaining when the roles are reversed and the broker is taking a loss to cover a load

 

So what good will it do to know the rate after the fact? Which is what OOIDA is petitioning for. And if you won’t waive your right to see the paperwork for the load the broker doesn’t have to give you the load. The guys that want the government to help will likely find themselves helped right out if business when it becomes a pain in the neck to deal with them and the loads can be offered to megas that can offer a ton of capacity.

 

So what is wrong if broker looking for fools? We all looking out something for free or cheap, isn't it? Free parking. cheap tires, cheap repair, cheap trucks.

 

If the broker in this example showed you that they only took 3% off this load, would you have taken it?

 

See the thing is that people are choosing to waive their right to see the shipper’s rate under their own free will. Nobody is forcing anyone to work with brokers that they don’t want to work with. So people are making their own choices and now they want the government to “help” them. And I’d bet the same people wanting help now were probably saying and still say the government needs to stay out of their business when it comes to ELD’s.

 

Think about it. There are new carriers all the time. And many people don’t build relationships with brokers, they chase rates. So as long as there are one and dones the rates won’t come up because there will always be guys moving that load for the same rate.

And I’m not against better rates. My rates are just fine because I don’t and have never used a broker. So that’s why I’m against all this transparency crap, I don’t want rates to be public knowledge.