Foreign based 3PLs and their effect on freight rates

I mentioned on another thread that a lot of these companies have the same address in Wyoming. That's just the one that I know about. I'm sure there are more.

 

They sell insurance. This is America and people with bills to pay have to work jobs or sell something to get by. If you don't like what they do don't support them. But don't spread complete nonsense about them. They've never stopped advocating for drivers in 40 years. They're the only trucking association opposed to the speed limiter mandate and actively lobbying against it. Everyone else supports it. Except for the livestock associations but they're only interested in getting an exemption for their drivers. And their association is powerful enough to do it. OOIDA suffers from a fragmented driver population who wouldn't stand up together on any issue out there not even in opposition to the speed limiter mandate. Drivers would just rather whine than organize and support a PAC that would actually do something.

 

What was the issue with the NY HUT stickers?

 

They have to opposite it, close to 100% of their members are against it. They wouldn't like to lose members, a lot of them.
Their insurance is kind of shady from what I know, some brokers don't accept it.
You have your right to defend them, and that's ok with me.

 

I am going to repeat what I said before about brokers and alike, the FMCSA needs to make sure there is full disclosure of the loads that are being offered by any broker, one of those points of disclosure is if the broker actually originated the load that is being offered and if they are not the originating party, then they have to post who is. This alone will eliminate 80% of the crap everyone puts up with and gut many of these offshore operations.

There should be an in-country requirement for all brokers, no matter who they are. This goes hand in hand with the disclosure requirements that are needed.

And another thing is reforming the rules for bonds, allowing the collection of work to be easier. Elimination of arbitration is in some of these brokers' contracts where the owner is left with a time-consuming process that ends up costing the owner more than the load. This also means that if the load is not originating with the contracted broker, then the owner has recourse to collect from the originating broker for the delivery of the load.

 

We disagree that's fine, my last post on it. The reason Cattle Associations and the likes can lobby congress and get their drivers exempted from ELD and the soon to be imposed (on all other drivers) speed limiter mandate is because they have plenty of support and money for their PAC's. They didn't and don't ever organize strikes or call for them. That's not what associations do and that's not how laws get influenced in our country. OOIDA is a lightweight and doesn't have the support or money. But they're the only PAC out there that's speaking up for your opposition to it even though you think they're worthless. Because if they weren't there you'd have no-one advocating that for you.

 

Landstar is over run with agents utilizing cheap call center labor outside the US.

As @Opus said.

Little John agents used to be the joke of LS 10 years ago. Austin Taylor agencies are now the new stain.

 

Why would they ask for a nation wide strike? We are not a union and so no need to do so. I think they are a good set up and have some nice people working for them. Use them for what they are there for and you might have a different outcome or opinion.