brokers...and the things they do....
today i got my freight from my shipper for next week , of which there are 4 loads going 125 miles to a place i have not been in 15 or so years.... he did not put a rate on it so while i was waiting until after lunch to call him for rates a friend of mine came into the mill where i was loading , he runs for a broker pretty much the only one in this area and he goes to this place often , so i walked over and asked him what he was paid to go there , he told me it had been a while since he had been but as best he could remember 14 or 15 a ton. . Not liking that i called my guy after lunch and he told me it pays 20. which is about what i thought it should pay. so here we have direct freight paying me 20 a ton to go 125 miles while my friend prefers to work for a broker that is paying him 14 or 15 for the same load on top of taking an 11% brokerage fee , Brokers , gotte love em.