What about load boards that exclude brokers and include shippers and carriers only?

Rollin Coal: Your scenario is 100% TRUE. I do agree there and you bring up a valid point I failed to think about with the last post. I have a question for you though. Many of us have heard of a scenario where a shipper/customer books their own freight but the dept doing it tries to profit $100 off of each load even though that person/group/dept should not be doing that and it is hush hush. I hear about this all the time as I have a lot of friends in the carpet industry. We do not haul carpet so they share everything with me. At least this type of thing is hard to get away with and is frowned upon by everyone else. Or at least that is the case in carpet. What kind of regulations do brokers have? Many claim that a lot of them are grouping together to monopolize. That a lot of them are dominating certain areas (tql in the northeast and landstar/tql in TX for flats at least). Once again not badmouthing Landstar as I do appreciate them most of the time. What about Greadwide/Cheetah/Dallas Mavis? I have heard some monopolizing stories about them but I have no proof on that one. I do know that tql showed up in the northeast and in no time at all flatbed rates went from decent to a close second to cali rates for flats. There is very little regulation. I am not a fan of big gov't. So I am not saying regulate regulate regulate. I am saying that when someone can get away with highway robbery without supply and demand doing it's great job that maybe they need to disappear (in a figurative manner of course). Just some food for thought Rollin Coal as you are very knowledgeable and a pleasure to chat with on here.