Looking to connect with shippers

Oct 04, 2020 at 09:03 AM CST + 16 - 6
Posted by a private BulkLoads.com member.	Posted by a private BulkLoads.com member. Ascending Transportation is a freight brokerage company based out of Memphis, TN. We are currently looking to connect with shippers and assist with their lanes and moving freight. Comments, leads, and questions are welcomed.

Replied on Wed, Oct 07, 2020 at 07:32 AM CST + 6
Posted by a private BulkLoads.com member.	Posted by a private BulkLoads.com member. John, Since you said questions are welcomed I have a few. Do you have experience in this industry? Have you owned trucks? Driven Trucks? Worked on trucks? What made you wake up and say 'I want to be a freight broker'? Why in your bulkloads information it is listed as Kansas but you state your based out of Memphis, TN? Why doesn't your info show up in the government safer system? Are you not licensed and bonded? https://safer.fmcsa.dot.gov/keywordx.asp?searchstring=%2AASCENDING+TRANSPORTATION+LLC%2A&SEARCHTYPE=

Replied on Wed, Oct 07, 2020 at 07:32 AM CST

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John,

Since you said questions are welcomed I have a few. Do you have experience in this industry? Have you owned trucks? Driven Trucks? Worked on trucks? What made you wake up and say 'I want to be a freight broker'?

Why in your bulkloads information it is listed as Kansas but you state your based out of Memphis, TN?

Why doesn't your info show up in the government safer system? Are you not licensed and bonded?

https://safer.fmcsa.dot.gov/keywordx.asp?searchstring=%2AASCENDING+TRANSPORTATION+LLC%2A&SEARCHTYPE=

Replied on Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 01:30 PM CST + 2 - 1
Posted by a private BulkLoads.com member.	Posted by a private BulkLoads.com member. Quote: "John, Since you said questions are welcomed I have a few. Do you have experience in this industry? Have you owned trucks? Driven Trucks? Worked on trucks? What made you wake up and say 'I want to be a freight broker'? Why in your bulkloads information it is listed as Kansas but you state your based out of Memphis, TN? Why doesn't your info show up in the government safer system? Are you not licensed and bonded? https://safer.fmcsa.dot.gov/keywordx.asp?searchstring=%2AASCENDING+TRANSPORTATION+LLC%2A&SEARCHTYPE= " Let's be clear on something I didn't wake up one day and say I've decided to be a freight Broker. This is something I have been working on for some time now and everything is coming together. To answer your questions I have over 7 yrs experience in the shipping and receiving business. My grandfather and my father as well owned their own logging company and trucks as well. My company is new and just starting out and I'm looking to make my own connections in the business. Yes, I am licensed and I am bonded thru PFA as well. No I haven't driven trucks bc I don't want to drive trucks, yes I have worked on trucks but I don't want to be a mechanic. Lastly as far as the info saying Kansas I'm not seeing it but I will look and correct it for "you" because as I stated I am based out of Memphis, TN.

Replied on Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 01:30 PM CST

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Quote: "John, Since you said questions are welcomed I have a few. Do you have experience in this industry? Have you owned trucks? Driven Trucks? Worked on trucks? What made you wake up and say 'I want to be a freight broker'? Why in your bulkloads information it is listed as Kansas but you state your based out of Memphis, TN? Why doesn't your info show up in the government safer system? Are you not licensed and bonded? https://safer.fmcsa.dot.gov/keywordx.asp?searchstring=%2AASCENDING+TRANSPORTATION+LLC%2A&SEARCHTYPE= "

Let's be clear on something I didn't wake up one day and say I've decided to be a freight Broker. This is something I have been working on for some time now and everything is coming together. To answer your questions I have over 7 yrs experience in the shipping and receiving business. My grandfather and my father as well owned their own logging company and trucks as well. My company is new and just starting out and I'm looking to make my own connections in the business. Yes, I am licensed and I am bonded thru PFA as well. No I haven't driven trucks bc I don't want to drive trucks, yes I have worked on trucks but I don't want to be a mechanic. Lastly as far as the info saying Kansas I'm not seeing it but I will look and correct it for "you" because as I stated I am based out of Memphis, TN.

Replied on Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 01:30 PM CST - 2
Posted by a private BulkLoads.com member.	Posted by a private BulkLoads.com member. Quote: "John, Since you said questions are welcomed I have a few. Do you have experience in this industry? Have you owned trucks? Driven Trucks? Worked on trucks? What made you wake up and say 'I want to be a freight broker'? Why in your bulkloads information it is listed as Kansas but you state your based out of Memphis, TN? Why doesn't your info show up in the government safer system? Are you not licensed and bonded? https://safer.fmcsa.dot.gov/keywordx.asp?searchstring=%2AASCENDING+TRANSPORTATION+LLC%2A&SEARCHTYPE= " I can also provide you with my DOT# and MC#. That being said who exactly are you and what are your credentials may I ask?

Replied on Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 01:30 PM CST

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I can also provide you with my DOT# and MC#. That being said who exactly are you and what are your credentials may I ask?

Replied on Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 05:13 PM CST + 1
Posted by a private BulkLoads.com member.	Posted by a private BulkLoads.com member. Quote: "I can also provide you with my DOT# and MC#. That being said who exactly are you and what are your credentials may I ask?" John, a carrier's credentials are checked multiple times per day. Id be surprised if the dot number isn't ran on every truck that rolls through a scale, every time. We don't get bent out of shape about it. Id get used to having people ask for those credentials. Id bet that the dot would shut wes down instantly if safer showed his interstate authority as inactive. Just the truckers perspective. Good luck with your new business.

Replied on Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 05:13 PM CST

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Quote: "I can also provide you with my DOT# and MC#. That being said who exactly are you and what are your credentials may I ask?"

John, a carrier's credentials are checked multiple times per day. Id be surprised if the dot number isn't ran on every truck that rolls through a scale, every time. We don't get bent out of shape about it. Id get used to having people ask for those credentials. Id bet that the dot would shut wes down instantly if safer showed his interstate authority as inactive. Just the truckers perspective. Good luck with your new business.

Replied on Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 06:54 PM CST
Posted by a private BulkLoads.com member.	Posted by a private BulkLoads.com member. Quote: "John, a carrier's credentials are checked multiple times per day. Id be surprised if the dot number isn't ran on every truck that rolls through a scale, every time. We don't get bent out of shape about it. Id get used to having people ask for those credentials. Id bet that the dot would shut wes down instantly if safer showed his interstate authority as inactive. Just the truckers perspective. Good luck with your new business. " Thanks Dale. Much appreciated

Replied on Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 06:54 PM CST

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Quote: "John, a carrier's credentials are checked multiple times per day. Id be surprised if the dot number isn't ran on every truck that rolls through a scale, every time. We don't get bent out of shape about it. Id get used to having people ask for those credentials. Id bet that the dot would shut wes down instantly if safer showed his interstate authority as inactive. Just the truckers perspective. Good luck with your new business. "

Thanks Dale. Much appreciated

Replied on Fri, Oct 09, 2020 at 07:25 AM CST
Posted by a private BulkLoads.com member.	Posted by a private BulkLoads.com member. I'm just south of Memphis, TN. Always looking for good paying loads, so email me at [email protected]

Replied on Fri, Oct 09, 2020 at 07:25 AM CST
Posted by a private BulkLoads.com member.	Posted by a private BulkLoads.com member. Quote: "I can also provide you with my DOT# and MC#. That being said who exactly are you and what are your credentials may I ask?" My original link didn't copy and past correctly, sorry about that https://safer.fmcsa.dot.gov/query.asp?searchtype=ANY&query_type=queryCarrierSnapshot&query_param=USDOT&original_query_param=NAME&query_string=1324605&original_query_string=WALTON%20&%20SONS%20LLC

Replied on Fri, Oct 09, 2020 at 07:25 AM CST

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Quote: "I can also provide you with my DOT# and MC#. That being said who exactly are you and what are your credentials may I ask?"

My original link didn't copy and past correctly, sorry about that

https://safer.fmcsa.dot.gov/query.asp?searchtype=ANY&query_type=queryCarrierSnapshot&query_param=USDOT&original_query_param=NAME&query_string=1324605&original_query_string=WALTON%20&%20SONS%20LLC

Replied on Fri, Oct 09, 2020 at 07:26 AM CST + 2
Posted by a private BulkLoads.com member.	Posted by a private BulkLoads.com member. Quote: "I can also provide you with my DOT# and MC#. That being said who exactly are you and what are your credentials may I ask?" Hello again John I am Wes Walton, exactly as it says I am on Bulk Loads. I am a carrier that began in 2008 as an owner operator, just last month we put on our 6th truck. You can check out my info on the safer website...here is the link https://safer.fmcsa.dot.gov/query.asp as I said we just added a 6th truck and that hasn't been updated on safer yet, still shows 5. I have no idea who or what PFA is, I googled that and nothing came up. The only place I go to look for correct licensing and bonding is the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, and when I put your name in you don't exist. That is a problem, because you don't know me and I don't know you from Adam. Your license and bond protects me or anyone else that works for you. There is countless people posting loads, claiming to be brokers that simply aren't, and from my observations too many truck drivers that can't spend 30 seconds checking out who they are working for. I don't like brokers so we may not get along, thats ok though, I'm here to make a living for me and my guys, not to make friends with brokers, just the way I see it. Yes I use some brokers, but I could count them on one hand, and it wouldn't take all the fingers. 90% of our customers are direct customers, that I have built relationships with over the years. In my experience the customer, or at least my customers want to pickup the phone and talk to the guy that actually has the trucks, and they pay well for the excellent service we provide. Good luck John, I really hope you do well, and I mean that. But I will continue making the calls, emails, and face to face visits with the same type of customers that your after as well, why - becasue I'd rather have that 10%+ in my pocket - becasue after all I'm the one buying the fuel, paying the insurance, paying the repairs bills, paying the taxes, making payroll, and on and on - guess I feel like I deserve it more than the guys with a cell phone and a computer.

Replied on Fri, Oct 09, 2020 at 07:26 AM CST

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Quote: "I can also provide you with my DOT# and MC#. That being said who exactly are you and what are your credentials may I ask?"

Hello again John

I am Wes Walton, exactly as it says I am on Bulk Loads. I am a carrier that began in 2008 as an owner operator, just last month we put on our 6th truck. You can check out my info on the safer website...here is the link https://safer.fmcsa.dot.gov/query.asp as I said we just added a 6th truck and that hasn't been updated on safer yet, still shows 5.

I have no idea who or what PFA is, I googled that and nothing came up. The only place I go to look for correct licensing and bonding is the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, and when I put your name in you don't exist. That is a problem, because you don't know me and I don't know you from Adam. Your license and bond protects me or anyone else that works for you. There is countless people posting loads, claiming to be brokers that simply aren't, and from my observations too many truck drivers that can't spend 30 seconds checking out who they are working for.

I don't like brokers so we may not get along, thats ok though, I'm here to make a living for me and my guys, not to make friends with brokers, just the way I see it. Yes I use some brokers, but I could count them on one hand, and it wouldn't take all the fingers. 90% of our customers are direct customers, that I have built relationships with over the years. In my experience the customer, or at least my customers want to pickup the phone and talk to the guy that actually has the trucks, and they pay well for the excellent service we provide.

Good luck John, I really hope you do well, and I mean that. But I will continue making the calls, emails, and face to face visits with the same type of customers that your after as well, why - becasue I'd rather have that 10%+ in my pocket - becasue after all I'm the one buying the fuel, paying the insurance, paying the repairs bills, paying the taxes, making payroll, and on and on - guess I feel like I deserve it more than the guys with a cell phone and a computer.

Replied on Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 12:01 PM CST
Posted by a private BulkLoads.com member.	Posted by a private BulkLoads.com member. What is your MC#?

Replied on Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 10:14 PM CST + 1
Posted by a private BulkLoads.com member.	Posted by a private BulkLoads.com member. Just my two cents for whatever it's worth; In California (other states as well), the Contractor's State Licensing Board (construction, handymen, etc.) requires by law that ANYWHERE your business is posted, advertised, promoted, etc. that you MUST include your CA State Contractor's License #, and if you are not licensed, you must post that you are not. Non- licensed operations can only charge a limited amount for services- Last I knew it was a cap of $500 but I've not been in that industry for many years now so it may have changed. When I got my authority, I decided that whenever I post anything about my business I will always include my MC and DOT #'s; This way others will know up front that I am a legal, licensed and bonded freight broker and not a dispatcher illegally posing as a broker (like so many in the FB groups do). I think that the FMCSA should make this mandatory so others will know that they are dealing with a legal licensed/bonded broker and not just someone who woke up one morning, puchased an (unnecessary) online quick-course in dispatching and will become rich overnight while doing it as a "side hustle" along with their vitamins and wellness products MLM. RL Druse MC# 1195104 DOT# 3559656

Replied on Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 10:14 PM CST

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Posted by a private BulkLoads.com member.

Just my two cents for whatever it's worth; In California (other states as well), the Contractor's State Licensing Board (construction, handymen, etc.) requires by law that ANYWHERE your business is posted, advertised, promoted, etc. that you MUST include your CA State Contractor's License #, and if you are not licensed, you must post that you are not. Non- licensed operations can only charge a limited amount for services- Last I knew it was a cap of $500 but I've not been in that industry for many years now so it may have changed.

When I got my authority, I decided that whenever I post anything about my business I will always include my MC and DOT #'s; This way others will know up front that I am a legal, licensed and bonded freight broker and not a dispatcher illegally posing as a broker (like so many in the FB groups do).

I think that the FMCSA should make this mandatory so others will know that they are dealing with a legal licensed/bonded broker and not just someone who woke up one morning, puchased an (unnecessary) online quick-course in dispatching and will become rich overnight while doing it as a "side hustle" along with their vitamins and wellness products MLM.

RL Druse

MC# 1195104 DOT# 3559656

Replied on Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 08:43 AM CST
Posted by a private BulkLoads.com member.	Posted by a private BulkLoads.com member. "I think that the FMCSA should make this mandatory so others will know that they are dealing with a legal licensed/bonded broker and not just someone who woke up one morning, puchased an (unnecessary) online quick-course in dispatching and will become rich overnight while doing it as a "side hustle" along with their vitamins and wellness products MLM." BOOM!....That was awesome Robert, I almost spit my coffee all over the keyboard. That's gonna piss em off...Happy Friday everyone!

Replied on Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 08:43 AM CST

Posted by a private BulkLoads.com member.

"I think that the FMCSA should make this mandatory so others will know that they are dealing with a legal licensed/bonded broker and not just someone who woke up one morning, puchased an (unnecessary) online quick-course in dispatching and will become rich overnight while doing it as a "side hustle" along with their vitamins and wellness products MLM."

BOOM!....That was awesome Robert, I almost spit my coffee all over the keyboard. That's gonna piss em off...Happy Friday everyone!

Replied on Sat, Dec 18, 2021 at 07:18 AM CST + 1
Posted by a private BulkLoads.com member.	Posted by a private BulkLoads.com member. Quote: ""I think that the FMCSA should make this mandatory so others will know that they are dealing with a legal licensed/bonded broker and not just someone who woke up one morning, puchased an (unnecessary) online quick-course in dispatching and will become rich overnight while doing it as a "side hustle" along with their vitamins and wellness products MLM." BOOM!....That was awesome Robert, I almost spit my coffee all over the keyboard. That's gonna piss em off...Happy Friday everyone!" Thanks Barry! Whenever I have said this in many FB groups, some call me and others with this same viewpoint "Haters" and it gets me kicked out and banned, but so be it!

Replied on Sat, Dec 18, 2021 at 07:18 AM CST

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Posted by a private BulkLoads.com member.

Quote: ""I think that the FMCSA should make this mandatory so others will know that they are dealing with a legal licensed/bonded broker and not just someone who woke up one morning, puchased an (unnecessary) online quick-course in dispatching and will become rich overnight while doing it as a "side hustle" along with their vitamins and wellness products MLM." BOOM!....That was awesome Robert, I almost spit my coffee all over the keyboard. That's gonna piss em off...Happy Friday everyone!"

Thanks Barry! Whenever I have said this in many FB groups, some call me and others with this same viewpoint "Haters" and it gets me kicked out and banned, but so be it!

Replied on Sat, Dec 18, 2021 at 10:30 PM CST
Posted by a private BulkLoads.com member.	Posted by a private BulkLoads.com member. Quote: "John, Since you said questions are welcomed I have a few. Do you have experience in this industry? Have you owned trucks? Driven Trucks? Worked on trucks? What made you wake up and say 'I want to be a freight broker'? Why in your bulkloads information it is listed as Kansas but you state your based out of Memphis, TN? Why doesn't your info show up in the government safer system? Are you not licensed and bonded? https://safer.fmcsa.dot.gov/keywordx.asp?searchstring=%2AASCENDING+TRANSPORTATION+LLC%2A&SEARCHTYPE= " Great questions!

Replied on Sat, Dec 18, 2021 at 10:30 PM CST

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Great questions!

Replied on Sun, Jan 02, 2022 at 09:14 AM CST

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BROKER

NOT AUTHORIZED

None

ASCENDING TRANSPORTATION LLC

DBA Name:

Physical Address:

1019 ROSEWOOD AVE
MEMPHIS, TN 38106

Phone:

(901) 390-3393

Mailing Address:

1019 ROSEWOOD AVE
MEMPHIS, TN 38106-6503

USDOT Number:

3499399

State Carrier ID Number:

10/05/2020

MCS-150 Mileage (Year):

Operation Classification:

SAFER Layout
X	Auth. For Hire
	Exempt For Hire
	Private(Property)
	Priv. Pass. (Business)

SAFER Layout
	Priv. Pass.(Non-business)
	Migrant
	U.S. Mail
	Fed. Gov't

SAFER Layout
	State Gov't
	Local Gov't
	Indian Nation

Replied on Sun, Jan 02, 2022 at 04:02 PM CST
Posted by a private BulkLoads.com member.	Posted by a private BulkLoads.com member. Did anybody figure out what the PFA is? It's probably the certification the training provider invented and gives you when you complete their online class...😂

Replied on Tue, Jan 04, 2022 at 09:16 PM CST
Posted by a private BulkLoads.com member.	Posted by a private BulkLoads.com member. if anyone is looking for an actual freight broker with actual experience and is 100% legal to do business please contact me [email protected]