what happens when you brokers fail at getting loads covered?

The only reason I'm leased to a carrier. I was never able to get those big pay day loads when on my own.

My best load to date was just over 2k dollars (after the carrier takes 25%) and it went 12 miles. more common is a short one going a few miles for 800 to 1200. My favorite wtf load is at a pratt and whitney facility. Pays me 850ish and goes just a couple hundred yards. Never leaves their facility, load in one building and goes to another inside the facility. I don't get it but sure ain't gonna complain about putting over 800 bucks in my pocket for 20 minutes of work while spending maybe 25 cents on fuel.

Show me a way i can snag those type of loads on my own and ill reactivate my mc number. in the 18 years i ran under my own i never found that way. So now for the last 5 i have been leased.

 

Man, I mostly wasted a not insubsantial amount of time calling around to various aerospace manufacturers and parta wholesalers only to get stonewalled all to hell.

 

Certainly. I apologize, I'd have given you a heads up as well, but I'd fallen asleep. I've verified with the admins as well that I can't post any contact info as well. Now, that said- hopefully you can find a way to get this posted. I'm curious as to what I'm thinking versus what others are thinking.

 

Im basically convinced only a handfull of 3pls and carriers will ever see that stuff. And there is no practical way for a small guy to open that door.

The sensitive DoD freight is even worse. That vetting process took me over a year to get cleared including the overly difficult appeal after initially being disqualified. One of the big evil acts i committed that red flagged me was an underaged drinking charge. I kid you not, getting caught with a beer in my hand at a high school party flagged me as a security risk 20+ years later.

 

Given that when I was initially getting my security clearance, the guy running it read a verbatim quote on a traffic ticket where I was being flippant to the city cop who was an ###, I can't say I'm surprised.

Edit: Hell, I might as well tell that story. Cop pulled me over for driving eight over; he was a marked car. He comes up on me, it's spitting rain. In my passenger seat is a now ex-girlfriend. He comes in, hot. "What the hell's wrong with you? Why are you speeding when it's raining, and there's a marked car behind you?!" I, being a bit of a ########, respond, "Well, honestly, I was rocking out and not paying attention to you at all." Suffice to say, dude wrote me the full ticket. Gotta love it.

The look on the Sergeant's face as he's reading this to me was pretty priceless. I at least got a high-five out of the deal. I had to get a waiver for my tickets to enlist as an MP. It was pretty funny, in hindsight. In the moment, I was pretty mad.

 

Are you russian by chance

 

No but they are in that business too

 

Very much so...have tried it myself a few times

 

There are some real characters in this business nowadays. I haul a lot of haz-mat loads. I was picking up at one of my regular shippers the other day and the shipping supervisor told me a good one that happened to them.

They had a hot load, none of the regular trucks around, so they gave it to a broker. Broker sent a truck in, driver could barely speak english. They always verify you have a haz-mat endorsement. When they asked to see his CDL, he didn't have the endorsement. They refused to load him, asked if he was told it was haz-mat, he said Yes. He told them to remove the placards and load him anyway, it will be fine. And he got fighting mad when they wouldn't do it...

 

"All about who you know"

N you definitely gotta know somebody with some pull. Good and bad in that.