brokers...and the things they do....

Kevin they all keep telling us they only make 7.5% or 5%. I wonder if that is what they train them in broker school. I went to such a thing a few years back and this is what they taught.

It takes all kinds to make the world go around. This guy doesn't know the difference between a commodity broker that deals with trading commodities, futures etc, and a commodity transportation broker that arranges transportation of commodity's.

because i work for the ingredient broker , he buys and sells and this truck broker hauls for him too , i i hauled for him for a couple of weeks before i called and went direct. i load and unload with his trucks all the time.if he is paying the truck broker less and getting it done why would he pay me more ? down here you don't bid freight , they tell you what it pays take it or leave it.

ok you did not clearly read my post.... the shipper pays everyone the same... the sweet little innocent .... always watches out for his drivers..... always honest because he says..all in , truck broker is skimming money off the top plus charging his brokerage fee ,

lol..i got nothin.... jason....scott... ya'll want to play with this one a little bit.......lol

Kimberly a shipper that I worked with the other day told me that he was willing to pay me and my group more because he was tired of the Mega's sending in guys and gals that don't really know how to drive a truck in the first place. Apparently the Mega that he has two more months on a contract with has torn up the curbs by the sidewalk of his facility multiple times since they have had the contract. The Mega carrier keeps saying it is the shippers fault, he watched me back into his dock in less than five minutes and never even touched the curb. I told him that I did not want to rub my tires on the curb and leave black marks on his curb or damage the sidewalls of my new tires. He asked me to come into his office and talk business, we did I was at least .50 per mile higher than the Mega, but assured him that our Independent Carriers could get the job done at that price and not destroy his curbs. About this time here came a Mega driver that was lost walking in, we told him he needed to go to the other side of town, he started griping at me and the shipper like it was our fault that he was at the wrong facility. This shipper has three facilities in this town, and I had already been to the other two myself, and did not say a doggone thing. This driver also looked to be about 5'7" and weighed about 300 lbs, he was wearing shorts, and sandles, and I could swear he had not had a shower in about a month. Now we country boys don't mind stinking every once in a while but most of us were taught that we should clean up after we work. As this guy waddled across the parking lot, the shipper asked me if our Independent Carriers looked like that, I stated that most of us Independent Carriers pride ourselves on what we do, we recognize that we represent out customers as well as ourselves. This is why this customer is willing to go to contract with me in two months. It is not about the price but about the service, and Kimberly I had never worked with this guy before that load, I posted my truck as the oshitter truck for the day and he called me to bail him out after the Mega had left him high and dry. Guess my little old four truck operation could get it done when the 1000 truck operation could not. He felt that the Mega just did not value his business, I informed him that we country folk need to stick together and work together willingly or the Mega corporations will basically keep lobbying and having laws made to force us to work for them. He agreed, funny how I am finding shippers that are fed up with the Mega way of life. I think it is time for a cool change for the small business owners to recognize that working with one another will protect their Freedom with Integrity.

thats why i will more than likely always be a one truck operation , its the only way i can guarantee 100% the level of service i provide.