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Mark Twain ", "thumbUrl": "", "dateAdded": "2016-03-24T00:27:57Z", "lastPost": "2016-03-26T03:57:39Z", "views": 5604, "likes": 2, "dislikes": 1, "messageCount": 9, "premiumOnly": 0, "isfeatured": 0, "showInDays": -100, "showDate": "", "forumLink": "", "youtubeVideoId": "", "approved": 1, "active": 1, "alias": "mark-twain-on-stupid", "forumUrl": "https://www.bulkloads.com/forum/mark-twain-on-stupid/", "userId": 11426, "firstName": "ALFRED", "lastName": "JORDAN", "companyName": "POWERHOUSE TRANSPORTATION, LLC ", "email": "[email protected]", "city": "PECULIAR", "state": "MO", "userCommentCount": 1182, "userLikes": 206, "replies": [ { "replyId": 35634, "content": "Let me try this again without the spelling error:\n \n \"Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.\" Mark Twain\n", "contentHtml": "Let me try this again without the spelling error: \r\n \r\n"Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience." Mark Twain ", "parentReplyId": null, "thumbUrl": "", "avatarThumbUrl": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.bulkloads.com/user_files/profile/thumbs/default.png", "signUpDate": "2013-06-26", "dateAdded": "2016-03-24T00:47:14Z", "likes": 4, "dislikes": 1, "approved": 1, "userId": 11426, "firstName": "ALFRED", "lastName": "JORDAN", "companyName": "POWERHOUSE TRANSPORTATION, LLC ", "email": "[email protected]", "city": "PECULIAR", "state": "MO", "userCommentCount": 1182, "userLikes": 206, "userDislikes": 6, "links": [], "files": [], "iLike": 0, "iDislike": 0 }, { "replyId": 35648, "content": "Good quote. I feel that way about brokers lately!\n \n #BuildaWall", "contentHtml": "Good quote. I feel that way about brokers lately! \r\n \r\n#BuildaWall", "parentReplyId": null, "thumbUrl": "", "avatarThumbUrl": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.bulkloads.com/user_files/profile/thumbs/default.png", "signUpDate": "2016-03-24", "dateAdded": "2016-03-24T15:00:46Z", "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "approved": 1, "userId": 86190, "firstName": "RUSS", "lastName": "ANDERSON", "companyName": "STEEL WHEELS TRUCKING", "email": "[email protected]", "city": "Lincoln", "state": "NE", "userCommentCount": 37, "userLikes": 0, "userDislikes": 0, "links": [], "files": [], "iLike": 0, "iDislike": 0 }, { "replyId": 35649, "content": "Just read a article about how freight brokers are enjoying a increase in revenue this year, wonder where the increase is coming from?", "contentHtml": "Just read a article about how freight brokers are enjoying a increase in revenue this year, wonder where the increase is coming from?", "parentReplyId": 35648, "thumbUrl": "", "avatarThumbUrl": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.bulkloads.com/user_files/profile/thumbs/default.png", "signUpDate": "2014-12-01", "dateAdded": "2016-03-24T15:08:13Z", "likes": 1, "dislikes": 0, "approved": 1, "userId": 39500, "firstName": "GLENN", "lastName": "SELLHORST", "companyName": "MCWIESER TRUCKING", "email": "[email protected]", "city": "Fremont", "state": "NE", "userCommentCount": 108, "userLikes": 3, "userDislikes": 7, "links": [], "files": [], "iLike": 0, "iDislike": 0 }, { "replyId": 35650, "content": "Yes, heard that as well. Some of the owners of the larger brokers are foreign as well. This is not the America I grew up in. \n \n #JustSaying", "contentHtml": "Yes, heard that as well. Some of the owners of the larger brokers are foreign as well. This is not the America I grew up in. \r\n \r\n#JustSaying ", "parentReplyId": null, "thumbUrl": "", "avatarThumbUrl": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.bulkloads.com/user_files/profile/thumbs/default.png", "signUpDate": "2016-03-24", "dateAdded": "2016-03-24T15:17:11Z", "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "approved": 1, "userId": 86190, "firstName": "RUSS", "lastName": "ANDERSON", "companyName": "STEEL WHEELS TRUCKING", "email": "[email protected]", "city": "Lincoln", "state": "NE", "userCommentCount": 37, "userLikes": 0, "userDislikes": 0, "links": [], "files": [], "iLike": 0, "iDislike": 0 }, { "replyId": 35652, "content": "Yeah I read something like that too. They're making more while we're making less. I'm sure there's an innocent explanation for that.\n \n", "contentHtml": "Yeah I read something like that too. They're making more while we're making less. I'm sure there's an innocent explanation for that. \r\n \r\n ", "parentReplyId": 35649, "thumbUrl": "", "avatarThumbUrl": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.bulkloads.com/user_files/profile/thumbs/default.png", "signUpDate": "2012-06-18", "dateAdded": "2016-03-24T18:32:02Z", "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "approved": 1, "userId": 7792, "firstName": "JERRY", "lastName": "BECK", "companyName": "BECK BULK", "email": "[email protected]", "city": "HANKAMER", "state": "TX", "userCommentCount": 517, "userLikes": 48, "userDislikes": 5, "links": [], "files": [], "iLike": 0, "iDislike": 0 }, { "replyId": 35666, "content": "If only that was true!", "contentHtml": "If only that was true! ", "parentReplyId": 35652, "thumbUrl": "", "avatarThumbUrl": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.bulkloads.com/user_files/profile/thumbs/default.png", "signUpDate": "2012-11-15", "dateAdded": "2016-03-25T13:40:10Z", "likes": 1, "dislikes": 1, "approved": 1, "userId": 9165, "firstName": "DANA", "lastName": "CHRISTOFFERSON", "companyName": "GLOBALTRANZ", "email": "[email protected]", "city": "PRESCOTT VALLEY", "state": "AZ", "userCommentCount": 15, "userLikes": 0, "userDislikes": 0, "links": [], "files": [], "iLike": 0, "iDislike": 0 }, { "replyId": 35690, "content": " Werner Profits Rise as Truck Brokerage Thrives The carrier bucked an industry trend with a 12% increase in fourth-quarter net income, due in part to strong performance in brokerage business \n From the Wall Street Journal\n", "contentHtml": "<h1 class=\"wsj-article-headline\" itemprop=\"headline\">\r\n\tWerner Profits Rise as Truck Brokerage Thrives</h1>\r\n<h2 class=\"sub-head\" itemprop=\"description\">\r\n\tThe carrier bucked an industry trend with a 12% increase in fourth-quarter net income, due in part to strong performance in brokerage business</h2>\r\n \r\nFrom the Wall Street Journal ", "parentReplyId": null, "thumbUrl": "", "avatarThumbUrl": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.bulkloads.com/user_files/profile/thumbs/default.png", "signUpDate": "2013-06-26", "dateAdded": "2016-03-26T03:39:11Z", "likes": 1, "dislikes": 0, "approved": 1, "userId": 11426, "firstName": "ALFRED", "lastName": "JORDAN", "companyName": "POWERHOUSE TRANSPORTATION, LLC ", "email": "[email protected]", "city": "PECULIAR", "state": "MO", "userCommentCount": 1182, "userLikes": 206, "userDislikes": 6, "links": [], "files": [], "iLike": 0, "iDislike": 0 }, { "replyId": 35691, "content": "No better than Weener pays their drivers they should have done better than 12%.\n \n I don't doubt them making out like bandits on the brokerage.\n \n A good friend of mine runs 18 skateboards of his own plus 8-10 O/Os and started brokerage this year.\n \n He emails out his load offerings and the carriers submit their rate as usual. \n \n We sat in his office and watched the bids come in on some Mobile to Houston loads. The highest we saw come in was $3 a mile but the most of them were between $1.30 to $1.50 all in. His rate for that shipper is $2.75 + FSC and $75 for tarping.\n \n I can see where s man could make it with a brokerage business.", "contentHtml": "No better than Weener pays their drivers they should have done better than 12%. \r\n \r\nI don't doubt them making out like bandits on the brokerage. \r\n \r\nA good friend of mine runs 18 skateboards of his own plus 8-10 O/Os and started brokerage this year. \r\n \r\nHe emails out his load offerings and the carriers submit their rate as usual. \r\n \r\nWe sat in his office and watched the bids come in on some Mobile to Houston loads. The highest we saw come in was $3 a mile but the most of them were between $1.30 to $1.50 all in. His rate for that shipper is $2.75 + FSC and $75 for tarping. \r\n \r\nI can see where s man could make it with a brokerage business.", "parentReplyId": 35690, "thumbUrl": "", "avatarThumbUrl": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.bulkloads.com/user_files/profile/thumbs/default.png", "signUpDate": "2012-06-18", "dateAdded": "2016-03-26T03:57:39Z", "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "approved": 1, "userId": 7792, "firstName": "JERRY", "lastName": "BECK", "companyName": "BECK BULK", "email": "[email protected]", "city": "HANKAMER", "state": "TX", "userCommentCount": 517, "userLikes": 48, "userDislikes": 5, "links": [], "files": [], "iLike": 0, "iDislike": 0 } ], "userDislikes": 6, "signUpDate": "2013-06-26", "avatarThumbUrl": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.bulkloads.com/user_files/profile/thumbs/default.png", "links": [], "files": [], "iLike": 0, "iDislike": 0, "iSubscribe": 0 }

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Posted on Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 8:27 PM CST in PECULIAR, MO