How much do Brokers make?

For the final 2years of bussiness we got our brokerage licence, we thought it might be a way to start to generate a different type of revenue besides just moving loads ourselves. It didn't work out to well because we are now out of bussiness but if I had a little more control that may not be the case, but my farther in law would never bend from anything from the norm, in any event, when we did broker the most we made was $100 on a load no matter what it paid and most of the time it was $50 the old man thought it was a good deal to make this kind of money from making a few phone calls. But keep in mind we were a very small company usually brokering loads from our customers that were going to far for us. We would usually end up giving them to Universal AM can or another company that had a driver in the area so by the time it got dispatched to the driver the rate was probably all chopped up by then. I do remember one time we brokered a trailer to be moved from Mass. to cali for a cust, of ours who made huge centrifuges. It was a special made trailer with a giant and heavy machine in it and it ran from the trailer. It was one of thoes Low type moving trailers, all modified by the geniouses at this company. I pulled it to our yard to be picked up and by the time I got there the F.D. was following me because the brakes had huge nests in them and they were burinig. I fixed that and the poor O.O. who pulled it to CA. ended up blowing every tire like 2 times each, see they ran carrige bolts to hild the unit in place but ran them right over the wells, the trailer runs low any how so they kept popping the tires. took the poor guy like 9 days to finally get it there but we made around a grand on that one and the driver did real good too we made sure of it. Sorry I am rambling. We usually made 50 to $100 0n a brokered load.

 

keep in mind that we ran our own trucks that was our thing the broker thing was just that a (thing) if the old man took it more seriously maybe I would still have a job and a company, instead of searching for work.