How to become a broker

Oh, I'm aware and I wholeheartedly agree. Not that I expect we'll see a reply of that sort.

 

Joined yesterday and was last on at 5:47 yesterday.

 

Isn’t there’s central place where BROKER’s bid on loads. I have many instances where you see 5 brokers advertising the same load

one time I got a rate con from tql. And then they says shipper canceled. Look on the board and see another broker with the same load. Broker said tql thought they were going to win the bid, that’s why they gave you a rate con

 

some shippers send out email blasts to whoever wants them, brokers or carriers, it’s just a list of all the loads they have, and generally what they were looking to pay on a given load.

 

Nope. This is pretty much the situation @Ruthless outlined. Lots of shippers send out a "blast" to try and get their stuff covered. There is no centralized location to get freight that I know of as a broker, and if there were, it'd be a throat-slicing race, for the most part. Wouldn't be worth the effort.

 

If you do become a broker don't be like those Landstar brokers who double broker the same load from other brokers 15 times when they don't even have the load to begin with.

 

^^ Those Landstar brokers are super easy to spot. I haven't seen Landstar do this nearly as much as TQL and a few others. Trident Transport comes to mind too.