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If you think load boards are the best way to find good paying freight that only means you have no good paying freight. The best paying freight almost never hits the load boards. I also take exception to this as long as they are authorized automatically makes them a good legitimate company statement. Lots of legitimate companies go out of business every day, in transportation that equates to the broker got paid and went bankrupt before the truck for paid. This is why i never loaded for a new brokerage mc number, or an old one with a bad credit rating, unless they were willing to pay cod.

 

You can't be serious! Are you?

 

That's a common myth that the best paying freight never hits the load boards. It all depends what you think is good paying on a specific load. For an independent operator, that logic is null and void.

 

It's not myth. A broker with a good customer paying well posting the freight on a load board - that's an act of desperation most of them will do anything to avoid. They have their contacts and they will beat the bushes with them before they even think of posting. When you run across good freight from a load board in a tight market you take advantage of it. We used to say we would do everything possible to keep it from ever popping up on load boards again whenever we dredged any of it up.

 

My logic as an independent operator was the best paying load was the best freight. It didn't matter if it was canned goods or a million dollar turbine engine. The loads i got from building contacts with good brokers always paid at least 50 percent better than anything i ever called on from a load board. With one exception, just like rollincoal said, when a big brokerage firm was in a bind and i could gouge them.

 

How the market is now, it'd be really lucky getting a decent load that they don't post on the boards. And it all depends on the area, lane and commodity. The majority want to run the popular lanes and it's difficult to lock in a good broker to take care of you. Building good relationships with any borkers these days is pretty rare. That's why I just say it's a myth because it's not as common as it seems. It's like those that jump on the bandwagon and say dealing direct is better than the broker. They're going to expect no positive outcome, especially with 10 trucks available to 1 load ratio.

 

No one said it was common or easy to get the good loads. We are saying that they aren't found on public load boards. It takes years of making contacts and building a reputation that the freight will be delivered on time and damage free, every time. No excuse. For example: No matter how good you take care of your equipment, every one has a breakdown in occasion. a guy that will rent a truck to finish delivery taking a huge loss on the load is the guy that broker goes to when he has good paying loads that need delivered no matter what.

 

What? Who's saying that it's common or easy to get the good loads? Hear me out.... What I'm saying is that, that kind of good paying freight is almost non existent for the new/old independent carriers now in days. There might be a small dose of lucky individuals that may really have it. Years of making contacts and building reputation could be nada overnight. Why? Because there's plenty of cheaper competition that are dependable and reliable with good equipment. And we could have different tastes of those "good paying loads" that aren't posted on the boards. Now, if you're talking about small/ larger size companies that have access to those loads, then that's a different story...

 

I disagree. While they are fewer in quantity, and lower in rates, there is still good freight out there.