Issues with broker

Call OOIDA. If you are a member they will call and negotiate with the broker for you. I know this from experience. I called just to find out what I could legally do. OOIDA asked if I wanted them to call and negotiate for me. I declined onece they informed me of my options. I made that call within an hour of a load being turned around. Was turned around because receiver wasn't ready for the load for another month. Didn't have a crane to unload. Broker wanted us to haul load from Al back to Ft Worth for same price that we hauled it for. Even though it was a decent rate it wasn't close to what we get for going that direction. After bypassing broker and letting shipper know that it was about to get real expensive for them they agreed to our rate. Didn't gouge them but got what we normally get for going that direction. Shipper had no problem and we still haul for them. Broker was pissed but they still have to give us freight from that shipper. The shipper ships everything through this broker.
Long story short, OOIDA Can advise you and know the laws.

 

What are the details on the load you took to get to WA? I am not gonna bad mouth you, just curious

 

Id like to clarify. At no point was a trying to talk down to the op or call her stupid or anything like that. Trucking is a tough learning curve and each and every one of us has made mistakes that coat us dearly. Heck i still make them.

 

They have been saying the same thing every day and when we call them to try to get straight answers they act like they don't know what is going on and when we ask for them by name they act dumb and won't let us speak to anyone but we keep talking to them and all of a sudden they know what we are talking about and try to talk crap. I am beyond over this situation. I WILL be reporting them and as soon as I get my driver on the road I WILL be letting all of you know who this company is and hopefully help you guys avoid a crap situation like this in the future.

 

To get to WA? We got a load from UT to WA and didn't want to get stuck there for the weekend so I found the load to go to Riverside CA from WA paying pretty much nothing ($800) but there was literally no other loads to get out of there, they were all going quick, and now I'm kicking myself because he should have might as well drove empty

 

I honestly don't take any of this personal, I do appreciate honesty and all the advice from everyone on here

 

From UT to WA we got I believe it was $1,500

 

how many miles?

 

I'm sorry, I lied. From UT to WA we got $1,000 it was 670 miles

 

That's Atrocious!

Im sorry Princessleia, You seem like a very nice person, And I hate to see you get taken advantage of Like this..

That lane demands $1400-1800 for a dry Van- reefer/Flat well over $2k

Something for you to think about......I hate to see you leave Big Money on the table PLUS drive rates down for everyone else. GET YOUR RATES UP Sweetheart!