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{ "forumId": 41035, "postTypeId": 1, "postType": "Forum", "forumTitle": "Mega Carrier buys Mega Broker", "forumContent": "UPS to its $1.8 billion acquisition of trucking brokerage services provider Coyote Logistics\n \n http://www.bulkloads.com/news/article.cfm?id=41026&username=*%3A%3A.X%28C4V%40%26%3B%29B%40%20%20%0A&password=%281%26%23.%3BVQ_%3EE%3C%20%0A&secret=1.", "forumContentHtml": "UPS to its <a href=\"http://multichannelmerchant.com/news/prnewswire/ups-acquire-coyote-logistics-1-8-billion-04082015/\">$1.8 billion acquisition</a> of trucking brokerage services provider Coyote Logistics \r\n \r\nhttp://www.bulkloads.com/news/article.cfm?id=41026&username=*%3A%3A.X%28C4V%40%26%3B%29B%40%20%20%0A&password=%281%26%23.%3BVQ_%3EE%3C%20%0A&secret=1.", "thumbUrl": "", "dateAdded": "2015-08-20T14:22:44Z", "lastPost": "2015-08-24T22:55:38Z", "views": 6185, "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "messageCount": 12, "premiumOnly": 0, "isfeatured": 0, "showInDays": -100, "showDate": "", "forumLink": "", "youtubeVideoId": "", "approved": 1, "active": 1, "alias": "mega-carrier-buys-mega-broker", "forumUrl": "https://www.bulkloads.com/forum/mega-carrier-buys-mega-broker/", "userId": 11426, "firstName": "ALFRED", "lastName": "JORDAN", "companyName": "POWERHOUSE TRANSPORTATION, LLC ", "email": "[email protected]", "city": "PECULIAR", "state": "MO", "userCommentCount": 1182, "userLikes": 206, "replies": [ { "replyId": 32645, "content": "This Mega-Broker just offered $650.00 for a load from Dallas, TX to Kansas City. I have told them no three days in a row, my guy would rather bounce home vs. hauling 45,000 lbs of vinegar back to KC for that.\n", "contentHtml": "This Mega-Broker just offered $650.00 for a load from Dallas, TX to Kansas City. I have told them no three days in a row, my guy would rather bounce home vs. hauling 45,000 lbs of vinegar back to KC for that. ", "parentReplyId": null, "thumbUrl": "", "avatarThumbUrl": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.bulkloads.com/user_files/profile/thumbs/default.png", "signUpDate": "2013-06-26", "dateAdded": "2015-08-21T13:56:27Z", "likes": 0, "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": 32662, "content": "Do you think they'll have Mega Rates?", "contentHtml": "Do you think they'll have Mega Rates?", "parentReplyId": null, "thumbUrl": "", "avatarThumbUrl": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.bulkloads.com/user_files/profile/thumbs/default.png", "signUpDate": "2012-06-18", "dateAdded": "2015-08-23T13:23:17Z", "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": 32664, "content": "Nope, they are the ones wanting us to haul 45K of vinegar back to KC from Dallas for $650.00, after I told them our prices 4 times they still kept calling. I guess they thought we would change our mind and haul it for what they wanted to pay. Wonder if they got somebody to haul that vinegar for them? Our truck picked up Pepsi out of Tulsa at $2.02 per mile. Looks a lot better then the vinegar at a $1.18 per mile.\n", "contentHtml": "Nope, they are the ones wanting us to haul 45K of vinegar back to KC from Dallas for $650.00, after I told them our prices 4 times they still kept calling. I guess they thought we would change our mind and haul it for what they wanted to pay. Wonder if they got somebody to haul that vinegar for them? Our truck picked up Pepsi out of Tulsa at $2.02 per mile. Looks a lot better then the vinegar at a $1.18 per mile. ", "parentReplyId": null, "thumbUrl": "", "avatarThumbUrl": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.bulkloads.com/user_files/profile/thumbs/default.png", "signUpDate": "2013-06-26", "dateAdded": "2015-08-23T21:52:16Z", "likes": 0, "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": 32665, "content": "Yeah sometime we get a little revenge. Last week a nice young lady called to ask if I had a truck for a Houston to Tulsa. I told her I did if we can get the right rate on it. She offered $1250 + FSC + $150 washout.. Oh no lady if my man goes we get $1750 +FSC +$200 Washout. No way she could/would pay that. Bout 2 hours later she called back nd ask when we could load. I had to tell her it would be Monday because when she didn't commit I had obligated all the trucks.\n \n In about 10 minutes she had sent me 2 confirmations at my price for next week and I already lined up both trucks back to Lake Charles which is about 80 miles from the yard. I love it when a plan comes together.\n \n On another high note one of the numbers Nancy gave me recently to call returned my call last week and we're in negotiations. Seems they only use Louisiana blackstrap and have trouble finding carriers when the RR screws up. I won't run Canada but they sell bookoo syrup in the lower 48 so its all good", "contentHtml": "Yeah sometime we get a little revenge. Last week a nice young lady called to ask if I had a truck for a Houston to Tulsa. I told her I did if we can get the right rate on it. She offered $1250 + FSC + $150 washout.. Oh no lady if my man goes we get $1750 +FSC +$200 Washout. No way she could/would pay that. Bout 2 hours later she called back ànd ask when we could load. I had to tell her it would be Monday because when she didn't commit I had obligated all the trucks. \r\n \r\nIn about 10 minutes she had sent me 2 confirmations at my price for next week and I already lined up both trucks back to Lake Charles which is about 80 miles from the yard. I love it when a plan comes together. \r\n \r\nOn another high note one of the numbers Nancy gave me recently to call returned my call last week and we're in negotiations. Seems they only use Louisiana blackstrap and have trouble finding carriers when the RR screws up. I won't run Canada but they sell bookoo syrup in the lower 48 so its all good ", "parentReplyId": null, "thumbUrl": "", "avatarThumbUrl": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.bulkloads.com/user_files/profile/thumbs/default.png", "signUpDate": "2012-06-18", "dateAdded": "2015-08-23T22:55:53Z", "likes": 1, "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": 32666, "content": "Go to coyotes web site..they claim to be the back haul experts..just what we need..they can't even be the freight moving experts but the back haul experts.", "contentHtml": "Go to coyotes web site..they claim to be the back haul experts..just what we need..they can't even be the freight moving experts but the back haul experts.", "parentReplyId": null, "thumbUrl": "", "avatarThumbUrl": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.bulkloads.com/user_files/profile/thumbs/default.png", "signUpDate": "2010-11-12", "dateAdded": "2015-08-24T00:33:34Z", "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "approved": 1, "userId": 3078, "firstName": "JEFF", "lastName": "PEARSON", "companyName": "C & R TRUCKING INC", "email": "[email protected]", "city": "PAYSON", "state": "UT", "userCommentCount": 927, "userLikes": 225, "userDislikes": 94, "links": [], "files": [], "iLike": 0, "iDislike": 0 }, { "replyId": 32668, "content": "Don't need a backhaul expert, don't need a fronthaul expert for that manner. Just need them to understand that without trucks they have nothing to broker.\n \n NO TRUCKS = NO BROKERS\n \n \n", "contentHtml": "Don't need a backhaul expert, don't need a fronthaul expert for that manner. Just need them to understand that without trucks they have nothing to broker. \r\n \r\nNO TRUCKS = NO BROKERS \r\n \r\n ", "parentReplyId": 32666, "thumbUrl": "", "avatarThumbUrl": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.bulkloads.com/user_files/profile/thumbs/default.png", "signUpDate": "2013-06-26", "dateAdded": "2015-08-24T03:43:47Z", "likes": 0, "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": 32670, "content": "They are an el cheapo outfit judging by their web site", "contentHtml": "They are an el cheapo outfit judging by their web site ", "parentReplyId": 32666, "thumbUrl": "", "avatarThumbUrl": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.bulkloads.com/user_files/profile/thumbs/default.png", "signUpDate": "2012-06-18", "dateAdded": "2015-08-24T14:02:53Z", "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": 32671, "content": "Here is how I believe it should work Jerry, I get freight from Kansas City to your area, you get freight from your area to mine. We both make the money we want as a fronthaul all the time. Surely we could help each other out that way, but you would be surprised at how many out there believe that they should make a bunch of coin on their fronthaul load, and still expect to make the same on my fronthaul load. I guess they never played Go Fish as a kid.\n", "contentHtml": "Here is how I believe it should work Jerry, I get freight from Kansas City to your area, you get freight from your area to mine. We both make the money we want as a fronthaul all the time. Surely we could help each other out that way, but you would be surprised at how many out there believe that they should make a bunch of coin on their fronthaul load, and still expect to make the same on my fronthaul load. I guess they never played Go Fish as a kid. ", "parentReplyId": 32670, "thumbUrl": "", "avatarThumbUrl": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.bulkloads.com/user_files/profile/thumbs/default.png", "signUpDate": "2013-06-26", "dateAdded": "2015-08-24T14:15:22Z", "likes": 0, "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": 32675, "content": "That's exactly how it should work but it requires a lot of integrity from the trucking companies involved. Do I even need to say that integrity is as good as gone? When I started in the trucking business 20 years ago in California, I had my truck leased to a small outfit in Fontana. The guy that ran it had grown up in the business with several others like him who had small 20-50 truck operations (flatbeds) up and down the central valley and inland empire. When we ran his freight north to the bay area or Sacremento, we always subhauled back south for one of those other small companies. And when those companies had empty trucks in our area he would try to give them something to get back north. Back then it worked because greed wasn't the motivating factor in every daily decision, and they respected eachother enough to stay away from the other guy's core cusotmers. I didn't know what a broker was and will quote Bob Seger who wrote \"I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then.\" \n", "contentHtml": "That's exactly how it should work but it requires a lot of integrity from the trucking companies involved. Do I even need to say that integrity is as good as gone? When I started in the trucking business 20 years ago in California, I had my truck leased to a small outfit in Fontana. The guy that ran it had grown up in the business with several others like him who had small 20-50 truck operations (flatbeds) up and down the central valley and inland empire. When we ran his freight north to the bay area or Sacremento, we always subhauled back south for one of those other small companies. And when those companies had empty trucks in our area he would try to give them something to get back north. Back then it worked because greed wasn't the motivating factor in every daily decision, and they respected eachother enough to stay away from the other guy's core cusotmers. I didn't know what a broker was and will quote Bob Seger who wrote "I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then." ", "parentReplyId": null, "thumbUrl": "", "avatarThumbUrl": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.bulkloads.com/user_files/profile/thumbs/default.png", "signUpDate": "2015-02-03", "dateAdded": "2015-08-24T15:38:21Z", "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "approved": 1, "userId": 44899, "firstName": "TOM", "lastName": "COLAROSSI", "companyName": "THOMAS C. COLAROSSI", "email": "[email protected]", "city": "Glen Elder", "state": "KS", "userCommentCount": 29, "userLikes": 0, "userDislikes": 0, "links": [], "files": [], "iLike": 0, "iDislike": 0 }, { "replyId": 32676, "content": "Talked to an independent yesterday that said he would want 20% of the load for our trucks to carry one of his loads back up north. I asked him if he had a brokers license, he did not. I informed him that it would be illegal for me to haul such a load under that arangement, I also asked him if he was wiiling to rebate me back for the load he hauled for my customer? He did not, guess we will not be working with each other any more.\n", "contentHtml": "Talked to an independent yesterday that said he would want 20% of the load for our trucks to carry one of his loads back up north. I asked him if he had a brokers license, he did not. I informed him that it would be illegal for me to haul such a load under that arangement, I also asked him if he was wiiling to rebate me back for the load he hauled for my customer? He did not, guess we will not be working with each other any more. ", "parentReplyId": null, "thumbUrl": "", "avatarThumbUrl": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.bulkloads.com/user_files/profile/thumbs/default.png", "signUpDate": "2013-06-26", "dateAdded": "2015-08-24T16:23:36Z", "likes": 0, "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": 32682, "content": "and the rr will screw up....glad i could help, good luck bud!", "contentHtml": "and the rr will screw up....glad i could help, good luck bud!", "parentReplyId": 32665, "thumbUrl": "", "avatarThumbUrl": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.bulkloads.com/user_files/profile/thumbs/default.png", "signUpDate": "2013-10-30", "dateAdded": "2015-08-24T22:55:38Z", "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "approved": 1, "userId": 12560, "firstName": "NANCY", "lastName": "HARDER", "companyName": "CORBO AGRO LTD.", "email": "[email protected]", "city": "SASKATOON", "state": "SK", "userCommentCount": 258, "userLikes": 166, "userDislikes": 18, "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": [ "http://multichannelmerchant.com/news/prnewswire/ups-acquire-coyote-logistics-1-8-billion-04082015/" ], "files": [], "iLike": 0, "iDislike": 0, "iSubscribe": 0 }

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Posted on Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 10:22 AM CST in PECULIAR, MO