How to become a broker?

Well, first thing I suggest is going to find a small to midsized brokerage that doesn't have their own trucks and going from there. Learn on someone else's dime.

Just be ready to make a soulcrushing amount of cold calls, especially starting out.

Good luck!

 

This is the right advice. If you can get away with not signing a noncompete I'd go pretty far to avoid one. Particularly for someone with 10 years as a driver.

Do you dispatch your own loads currently?

 

To the OP- Yeah I Get.....10 years on the pavement- changed the way you Look,Feel and outcomes n your personal life.

Becoming a broker doesn't necessarily mean your going to win it big, Not in todays Climate where Brokers have margins of 5-10%

Not trying to persuade you in any way....but If your "good" at what you say you are-n Theres Tons of money to Make driving at this time

Everyone wants to be a broker because of the Obvious Reasons Not Leaving your Home/or office, Or Not being Responsible against the public.

Choose Wisely Young Man.

 

It's being trapped in your home office, after you've spent a few years being trapped in an office working for probable scumbags. As for not being responsible I've had a 4 alarm dumpster fire hanging over my head since May of 2014. That only stopped two weeks ago when I stopped running produce lol. It's very doubtful I'd still be around without what produce did for me the first 3 years in the business either.

There really aren't any beds of roses in the world that don't have to be worked really hard for. That being said I'm pretty happy with where I am right now... And if I had to do it all over again I'd do it all over again.

If you're looking for a business to get into that doesn't involve a ton of sales work, which is what being a freight broker is, look into doing some kind of coding bootcamp or something. Computer programming is a pretty low barrier to entry these days. You don't have to be great, being average and hard working will get you a long long way. Digital construction work is the new construction work. Without the risk of falling off a building or getting skin cancer. Much worse chance of never passing on your genes though.

 

Yeah, I'd agree with @boredsocial on a lot of points here. If you can sell, this is a good job. If you're personable? still a good job, because you can develop the sales skills. I can teach you to sell. I can't teach you the intangible interpersonal communications you need to get there.

 

It also requires at a minimum a certain amount of low cunning. The gullible need not apply... which means that if you gave serious consideration to a broker school you're probably looking at the wrong opportunities.

 

I can't stand the look of asphalt either. I would like to become a broker too. An independent one...own MC# Heck, I could come up with 75K for a bond too. I would wear my pajamas all day long and work while sitting on my porch. Afternoon comes and all my loads are covered, then I can dress up and do my other life stuff. I don't aim too high, clearing $ 500 day would do it for me. Can I be a broker plz..?

 

Way easier to make 1000 a day than 500 lol. Life is funny like that. 'Moderately' and 'successful' usually don't go together.

 

Can't be telling them all the things you need, now...