Former TQL employee: ask away

I feel the shipper has more of a right to know what the broker is charging than the trucker. A big reason brokers exist is so the shipper doesn’t have to deal with truckers. And I think they have a right to know what kind of fee they are paying for that.

 

I would say $300-700 on normal van loads and shorter runs. Usually never less than $1000 on oversize and long runs.

 

But there’s also times where I saw brokers take huge loses just to make sure the load picked up on time. When they said they were losing money on a load, they aren’t always lying.

 

Oh yeah absolutely. Sometimes they got more money and other times they lost the load and/or customer. I found shippers to generally be really unreasonable and mean people.