Honest Question

This goes to show that even though you may know just as much as trucking as I do you still have a lot to learn.
Their are thousands of brokers out there who YES still drive their own rig from time to time. It's called making money both ways. In fact, the guy I used to do a lot of business with was a broker himself an he owned a truck in which he drove it!...
If You or I wanted to go to broker school we could do the same thing. People are so quick to come up with these preconceived theories about things when we don't even know the half. You're basically telling me that since this guy is driving a truck then he's not successful or making any money as a broker. Cmon guy, isn't that a big reach? An yes I accepted the load because it paid me 2 bucks a mile to do it. The guy I met there was also getting his trucks loaded an he has a direct connection with this steel mill which means all the loads he can handle go to him first. If he don't want them he brokers them out. It wasn't a pissing match as in who was making the most money for the load. He simply told me why he couldn't put the load on his trucks because it weighed close to 49000 pounds. He could only scale 43.5k legally.
There was NEVER any problem with the rate I received. I was piggybacking off of what @MOGLAR spoke of with the loads being rebrokered. Of course I already knew this, but I was sharing an example of how I know they are being rebrokered. I

 

ill put it this way, if you've never been independent then you wouldn't understand it. if I had the patience I would probably broker loads too! Right out of my truck!
Lol. That was actually funny...."a broker with awesome paying freight driving a truck"

You have so much to learn.
If you didn't know that some brokers have awesome paying freight then yea I would like to take a look at that beachfront property you have in Arizona.

 

Spyder. Has had authority, so what steel facility were you at.

 

Fyi, those broker schools are a scam. Becoming a broker is just filing the paperwork and writing a couple checks. Not much different than becoming a carrier. However, being a broker with a lot of good paying freight requires thousands of hours of phone calls, mailings, and knocking on doors. No full time driver had that amount of extra time. It's a full time sales gig where you hear no a hundred times more often than you hear yes.

 

Here's what I can't figure out, the newer guys say there's nothing to learn about this system, they want to get loadboard loads, they got everything figured out, but they are complaining about how things work. If they really had been paying attention, they would know how to get one ofbthose loads.

 

Ok, i reread and something stood out. Assuming he is telling the truth and sold the load to mercer, you would get 75 percent of what linehaul rate he sold it for, plus 100 percent of fsc and accessorials. Much higher than the "half" number you stated. If you think mercer is shafting you on the rate, simply call them and ask to see the freight bill. Your contract, and federal law makes viewing the original freight bill simple and easy.

So either mercer is breaking your contract and opening themselves up to a lawsuit in which you are pretty much guaranteed to win or the guy you met was full of bull dung. Which seems more likely?

 

He got 2 bucks a mile meaning mercer got about2.67, he said the sold it for twice that or 5.34 a mile. I would like to know the guy and the mill

 

No kidding. Id go into that mill and get every load they have for an even 5 a mile and sell them to landstar for 2 bucks.

 

If spyder has had his own authority then he would know that a 5.00 a mile load isn't far fetched. Heck I've done 8.00 a mile loads when shippers have gotten in a bind an need the product moved.
I could care less about what mercer pulled out of the load. All I care about was what I agreed to do the load for which was 2.03 a mile to be exact.
I'm trying to figure out how the topic went from the loads being rebrokered, to me complaining about not being paid enough to do a load.
Can some one tag in my post where I complained about being shafted by mercer for rates?
We are going off on a tangent about fuel surcharges an name of steel mills an all that crap when it's irrelevant to the topic originally posted.

 

Unfortunately i really didn't bother to find out how the load got in mercer's hands.
That was what the topic was about.
Rebrokered loads!!!!
Obviously it went thru an additional broker before it got to mercer because the pay was almost double what I received.
Correct me if I'm wrong but that's how
"REBROKERING" works.
At the end of the day everybody has an opinion or a way they handle things...
We can't call this man on bs but then expect somebody to believe everything that comes out of your mouth.
I haven't seen your statements or freight bills nor have I seen his...really could care less, it's not that big of an issue but I find it hilarious that every time a guy speaks about mercer that you guys don't agree with then it's world war 3.