Picking my own freight baby! My journey to & of being on Schneider choice, the Adventure & Numbers!

Yes, one of the TQL brokers explained that they basically worked under the name, just like Landstar agents, but their offices were independent of each other.

They are decent on rates, but rarely agree to go high enough to load my truck.

 

That's how many of the large brokerage firms work. Chr is another example of that.

 

One advantage of the large brokers is you can typically get somebody on the weekends if you want a load. I've done that once with CH Robinson ( only load I have hauled for them). I had taken a nice load from Indy down to Alabama where rates sucked. CH Robinson had an easy short load with a good RPM that got me up to an area where I could get some good loads after delivering it on Monday. Without that load, I would have been searching through some cheap Alabama freight, or deadheading into an area with better rates.

 

I seem to remember saying that a couple years ago and every one telling me i was nuts, that the only way to make money was being leased to the pumpkin.