My company edits the load rate, should I confront them?

You should get a copy of every brokered ratecon for every load. That is just good business.
You don't have to say the broker tipped you off to the discrepancy. If you don't expose the broker, he most likely will give you information in the future.

I would call a few more brokers you hauled for and find out how often this is done.
Review your contract. Maybe you and your employer have different interpretations of the numbers where your pay starts.
Good luck.

 

Way back, when rites meant something, I worked for a small petroleum carrier who also ran on the authority of others.

One company charged us 10% of the freight ran on their rights and the boss deducted another 10% then bragged how he paid 64% when the other locals were only paying 62%....

On the other hand there used to be honest companies too.

I was proud of the Krajack family, the owner operator got a copy of the actual freight invoice and always knew what they were making; even when the customer demanded a lower rate and they took the hit out of their percentage because the operator was doing 110% customer service and should not suffer from competition. Could be why the are no longer in business...

 

If you mean the ratecon, yes it can be edited. It's often just a text document emailed to the company, usually a pdf file. Editing text files is easy.

Spoofing emails is also easy to make an edited file look like it's being forwarded from another address.

 

While a good example of trucking firm's 'culture' tries to minimize a lot of 'seat of the pants' operations; the first and foremost "Reaction" is best described as 'Quick and Dirty' a phrase I first heard from what is now called "IT" back around 1980.

Most companies try to limit reactive operations.

If 'Quick and Dirty' describes the company, from top to bottom, you may be working for a company that seeks personal profit over ethical operations.

Does it take FOREVER to get something fixed -or- replacing near bald tires?

Is the equipment shabby but the owner get a new car every year?

On the other hand, you also need to look at the level of competition.

Is someone else trying to undercut your companies rates?

I worked for a small company that shared a business with a larger carrier on a 60% them 40% us basis.

Due to service levels after a year or so the numbers have reversed and the larger carrier is not happy and their sales guy drops in on the home office of the customer and the keys to their box at the local ballpark and they talk turkey and the percentages switch back and there goes 20% of our revenue except for those who value our service enough to gripe and throw the other guys out.

The driver should be able to sense when it is competition VRS greed.

HOW DO YOU END UP WITH A MILLION DOLLARS IN TRUCKING, START WITH TWO.