Know your broker or know your carrier.

Had a broker call this AM wanting a load like one I'd moved a month before for him.
He's talking away and I'm looking for the last load on my PC.
Found it he paid me 500 for pelham al to pulaski tn and I got a com chek for 465.00 within an hour.
So great I'm all for it, I ask him how much it pays he said 450.00 I said you paid me 500.00 last time a month ago.
Come to find out he mistook me for the 450.00 carrier which is about 15 miles from me cause he's looking through his files for a
carrier he didn't owe money.
His exact words were "I looked you up by accident cause you had a zero balance".
This just shows hiw brokers abuse us if you let them. He wanted credit and a cheap price.
He started the typical well my customer don't want it moved that bad this time and on and on.
He said you can have it for 450 or 415 with com chek. Wonder should I tell his dummmy carrier that he's hauling the same load for less and waiting
months longer t get paid?

 

It suprises me in the fact he should've known what I hauled for the last time. he's just looking at zero balance accounts.
Still debating tell the other carrier or not. He's not great payor to his drivers. One driver told me he made 26 cents a mile.

 

What relationship? (one time) I've hauled out of the shipper and consignee with about a half dozen different companies. not like it someplace new. I go to the same places over and over agian. I could haul direct except where I have problems is the same most small carriers have is truck availability not to mention weight capacity. Shippers would rather send stuff to people that can toss it in the air and see who grabs it. The problem I have with saying something to the other carrier is I had two loads for a direct customer I could only get one in timeframe required. This broker paid me pretty decent over two or three loads I moved for them They would send me a check on faxed paperwork within 7 days. Well I called someone else I knew, had him set up to get paid like I did. He moved the second load and I didn't hear back from that customer till about a year later. The other carrier slipped and told me he was giving them 30 days to pay and a slightly cheaper rate. since then I'll never help another small carrier out.... or tell them when they're getting screwed. I have since oved freight for that broker agian but I add an extra 10 cents a mile to the rate for general principal