TQL forced on Article 49 to show original rate con

Yo, that's me.

Anyway: without listening to whatever fecal matter is sloughing out of Lamb's mouth now, I can't find anything more than his statement on this. No mention on whether it's one transaction, multiple transactions, or so on. No verifiable documentation. I've seen it making the rounds for the past week, and there's *nothing* to show me anything of note. All we have is the word of a known huckster and charlatan.

Far be it from me to defend TQL, but without some actual documentation, I'm going to not only take this with a grain of salt, but a whole one of those big ol' morton round carton shakers that I think we all inherited from our grandparents because they never seem to run out.

 

More the fact people make such a big deal on profit another company makes. There was room to negotiate, or to refuse it. So the o/o got a bad deal. It happens, broker take advantage of people like that. It's all about money, and we are a capitalist country.

 

I don't have to. I've read enough of your posts to know.

 

No, just been around trucking all of my 28 years, this is nothing new.
So you just want someone else to do all the work of finding freight, it's actually not that easy go try it once, and then hand you 85 to 90% of the money?

 

Yes its true worry about what the truck makes, not the broker.
However the if you dont like it dont take it argument falls short.
Why?? Because someone WILL take it.
With transparency the broker knows they will have to take less and pay more.
Because knowing it a lously rate and the broker is getting half or close to it.
More and more drivers will refuse to take it
Drivers will know who is ripping them off and who the better brokers are.
The better more honest brokers will wind up taking customers from the less honest brokers.
If it didnt matter, then why do brokers fight against transparency? Because they understand how business works.

 

You said it yourself. When someone is always ready to work for less,then transparency is only going to cause frustration.

 

How is knowing how much the broker is making going to stop people from taking the load way too cheap? They already know it's cheap and they do it anyway.

 

So then what if they also ask for o/o transparency? And they decided to just go with the cheapest operation company? They don't care u bought a brand new truck with $2000/month payments.
You can make up your fancy scenario and it will fall like dominoes and everything will go according to plan, but in the real world, people would try find a way around it or get back at you.
If you haven't noticed, brokers are also going out of business in 2023. Customer are paying less, broker and truckers and getting less.
Stop looking 2 feet in front of you and learn how supply and demand work. Then u realized what the problem is

 

You don't understand how it truly works. Do you have your own authority?

Broker posts a load at a great rate. His phone blows up with calls. He has multiple carriers on hold. Several of them offer to do it less than what he posted it for because there's still enough meat on the rate to snatch from the other carriers patiently waiting on hold. It's the free market. They will literally offer to do it for less to knock out the other callers.

Rate cutters. Period. They will never go away.

This also happens when bidding on contracts with customers or even 3pls. They send out RFPs. Everyone tries to be the cheapest to get the contract instead of selling a service. In Transportation you better be ready to grease palms or be as specialized as possible to significantly reduce your competition pool to make any real money over a decent salary.

 

What's "RFP"? A proposal of some sort?