OOIDA petitions Elaine Chao/Jim Mullen.

So this is a real world example from someone who just because of his positioning has seen a first-hand point of view of what some Brokers do, yet here is what we will hear next.

You are a moron! You don't know how to negotiate! It's idiots like you that are the reason their rates are low because you accepted that load! Now you come onto an internet forum and cry like a baby! You have no idea what you're doing and it's guys like you that are the problem in this industry! You don't know anything about running a business you're just some broke guy that wants to scream and whine because you are too stupid to know what you're doing!

Just let a real man like me take care of it and you get out of the way you putz! Idiot! Moron! imbecile!

You know you would think that if someone reads this and realizes that's what they sound like maybe it would change things even a little bit but... nah!

SMH...

 

If the guy in the middle gets two separate people to agree to two separate business deals on their own free will why is he all of the sudden the bad guy? How many quotes did the shipper get in this instance before he agreed to the rate that the broker quoted him? If he wasn’t happy with the rate then why did he agree to it? What if the shipper got 4 quotes and this broker was the cheapest? It would seem the shipper was ok with his choice up until he spoke with the poster involved. If he wasn’t ok with his choice then he was somewhat foolish to accept the rate.

The poster already explained his point of view, but the fact is he agreed to the rate and it would seem he was ok with his choice, even though he didn’t get what he wanted, up until he spoke with the other party.

Did the poster here gain a direct customer? None of my business. Will the shipper ever use that broker again? Don’t really care. A broker is in it for a profit same as everyone else. And in this instance one could say that he was a better negotiator than the other two parties involved or he threatened bodily harm to both of them to get them agree to terms they didn’t like.

 

How many of the guys on the "we need broker transparency" wagon have been at this for 30 some years?

 

Rates are low because there's more trucks than freight, seriously how have you not understood that yet?

 

When I was hauling cattle you always had the guys that would show up from somewhere else and be calling around looking for work for a month if it was slow where they were from. One of the guys we hauled for a lot would use those other guys on the stuff we couldn’t cover when it was crazy busy. At that time we were running for $3.80 a mile prorate over 50k and those out of towners would haul right alongside us for a flat $3.40 a mile and load heavy. So does that make the buyer a bad guy for paying them less or does that make the other guys foolish for hauling cheaper just to have work?

Edit: Some people may not understand the rate deal. If we loaded 55k on a 600 mile load the rate would work out to $4.18 a mile, versus those other guys hauling the same load for $3.40.

 

If you actually read what I’m saying, the main point is people make their own choices. He chose to only get one rate quote. He chose to accept it. It was his choice to not make any other calls or try and get quotes from anyone else.

Same as the protestors in DC. They chose to base their business model on living off the load boards. They chose to accept the rates they were being paid until they couldn’t anymore. And now it’s someone else’s fault for the situation they’re in.

Many of us who see how this transparency stuff could backfire don’t even use brokers at all. What if the TIA uses their lobby money and convinced the FMCSA that all rates need to be public as a big middle finger to the guys wanting transparency? Then we’re all screwed. Every one of us wants to make a profit, I feel counting someone else’s money is the wrong way to do it. That’s all.

 

“But he answered one of them, ‘I am not being unfair to you, friend. Didn’t you agree to work for a denarius? Take your pay and go. I want to give the one who was hired last the same as I gave you. Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?’

“So the last will be first, and the first will be last.”