What do Brokers get paid?

Are You happy from that deal ? Compared to others deals around You ? If yes I would not worry one bit what he is making.

 

Theres no way to tell how much he’s making. I ran a brokerage for a couple of years in the 80’s. It’s a filthy racket. Brokers are bottom feeders, and as big a problem as publicly traded mega’s, if not bigger. Here’s an example. I book a load that pays $4.00/mi. Decent money so I have some room to make some for myself. I book the load through a numbered company I also own, knock $2.00/mi out of it, and broker the load to myself through my primary business. Then I broker the load to you at 80-85% of the $2.00/mi. You only see the PRO bill for the $2.00/mi and have no idea what the shipper actually paid. That’s only one scam they run. So, you tell me how much he’s making.

 

My partner and I run 5 trucks of our own and have 2 Lease Op’s. I won’t deal with brokers. Yes we haul 3rd party freight, it’s near impossible not to anymore, but we only deal with originating carriers. I just feel that you need to own and operate trucks and employ truck drivers before you go sending out invoices for transportation.

 

A lot more than drivers,for half the work.

 

That's like asking what a truck driver gets paid. There are a million different types out there doing a million different things and also go-getters all the way down to lousy ones in every niche. You could spend a life trying to answer this question and still never know. An ambitious independent with experience and good contacts probably makes 2-300k a year just like a really top notch owner operator but the ones who answer the phone at the big 3pl's probably make 50 or less. They aren't actually brokers, they work for a broker.

 

As much as the broker can get, every time. It's the same as your business operating trucks. I would hope you try to get every dollar you can on every load too. There's enough loads that "trucking" happens, and you've got to make every one as profitable as you can. We can sit here and debate what a broker is worth, and perhaps there's many times a trucking company takes a brokered load at less than what a broker will pay to have it moved, but shame on every one of us if we don't ask for a better rate every time than what's posted or offered 1st. As the initial response was given, if you're happy with the rate you get, what does it really matter?

 

Hello i al
New here and am thinking of buying a truck could i pick your brains for some information?

 

Did you found landstar? LOL

 

I was thinking the same thing...."Then I broker the load to you at 80-85% of the $2.00/mi.

Yep sounds just like some real deal bottom feeder Landstar/Glendale Gang shenanigans right there.....