Slow pay

More often than it should be. Howver, contacting their bond holder always has my money in the mailbox a few days later. Not that a carrier should rely on that bond though since it's only 75k. That measly 75 thousand can be gone in a blink of an eye when dealing with large brokerages. Maybe one day the Feds will actually make the bond match the volume a broker does instead of a one size fits all type deal as not all brokerages are created equal.

Cry me a river, broker. You knew what a can of worms you were opening. Hence your passive aggressive statement about, "not wanting to stir the pot". You could have easilty spelled it out like you did in your previous response. Obviously, if that stipulation is in his contract then it would only be an EXCUSE for the parasite to not pay on time. Just like all the games ya'll like to play with accessorials. Particularly, detention and TONU. However, you conveniently left out those pertinent details. Get your own trucks, drivers, insurance and authority then you won't have to worry about when you get your "paperwork". You don't have the funds available to pay every invoice upon receipt or even on time for that matter unless you run a very very small operation. This is why you wait until your "customer", larger brokerage and/or 3PL pays you. Only THEN you might get around to paying the carrier. You don't pay a dime for the transportation but sit around and tax it as if you did. No assets, no overhead and essentially no skin in the game. All of you are nothing but a bunch used car salesmen brimming with politician speak. I'll digress but I have several choice words for your kind. I could care less about your payment reviews. No doubt they're fake like the rest of them anyway.

Over 60 days

Mr.Krouse,
Ask Jared. No one in the history of this forum has had to ask for help in deleting stupid posts more than me. I think i single handedly caused the current review scenario. Your pushing the envelope, in my opinion.
I'm no ones slave. You can make a point without being this offensive if you want to.
For those of of us with small otr irregular route fleets brokers become a fact of life. Factoring companies ( smart freight being the best ever) brokers all are tools. Used with imagination and prudence are money makers.
Possibly you are a local or regional carrier. If that is the case you have different operating concerns.
I have never been a word Smith and I have learned on this forum that a little tack can be a plus.
I learned the hard way some time back about lumping brokers in a group. There are 3 kinds of brokers. Great ones like Tommy and Duane.
Average or realistically LAZY brokers that give you a load number and tell you call them when its over. These are almost all brokers on this site (not to include commoditiebuyers) .
Then we have the bad guys. You can imagine.
All of us have different operating parameters.
Im no ones slave.
I think you just like to make a headline rather than make a point.
You do what you wish but picking a fight with people you don't know anything about is stupid. You're on point to rival my record on posts that need deleting. Not a proud moment for either of us.
Don't mess with Tommy
Don't mess with Duane
Learn from my mistakes. LEARN from the brokers that have the balls to post on here. Very few brokers care enough about us to educate us about their side of things.
Just being a negative to be a negative benefits no one.
Good luck in your endeavors.
Put some actual thought in your posts and you will be taken seriously.

Art Pfluger

Very valid point, sir. I heard about Celedon going under this morning. They bought up several smaller trucking companies over the last couple years too. I'm curious what will happen with those recently acquired carriers. I have no doubt Celedon knew exactly what they were doing. Growing exponentially to reduce their tax burden to later claim bankrupty on all the credit they ran up in the meantime to walk away smelling like a rose. Gotta pay to play, I guess. I only feel bad for the employees left without jobs. Especially this time of year.

Typical broker speak...blamimg the mail on slow pay. Your arrangement between the broker and their customer is none of my concern. I invoice brokerage immediately upon delivery, payment is due within the payment terms schedule per our contract. It's the broker's responsibility to pay the carrier within that time frame. No excuses. If they don't have the money at hand to pay their bills then they're essentially getting a free loan from the carrier. That's the bottom line. The rest is symantics. When I wrote that second post I was pretty pissed off at Re-Trans. They're a Keuhne and Nagel company and very very large. One of my biggest customers uses them as their "third party payment provider". This customer sent me tons of work that I was billing $150/hr plus all accessorials like tolls and storage etc etc. As great as it was, I had to tell them I could no longer haul for them because they don't pay on time. Yes, I cut my nose off to bite my face but a man's got to have principals. I'd rather stand for something then fall for nothing.

My terms with Re-Trans were NET30. However, they routinely don't even send out a check until 65-75 days have passed AFTER I've invoiced. that 30-45 days late. Now we're talking 15k here, 18k there and once one was over 32k due! In 30 days time, I could completely use up their entire measley 75k surety bond myself. Imagine how many other carriers they do that to. Millions of dollars at their disposal to anything they want with while the bond does nothing at all to safegaurd the carrier. For a brokerage their size they should have to carry a significantly higher bond. That's absolutley pathetic. I got tired being a bill collector and will no longer deal with them in any capacity regardless of the rate. You only live once and I do what I do so I can enjoy my life not chase down multinational billion dollar conglomerates for what is essentially pocket change to them.

Imagine if I told my creditors that I couldn't pay them until I got paid from a broker or customer. It wouldn't fly. After 30 days, I have to pay fees in the form of penalties and/or interest. If brokers had to pay those fees they would be paying on time! Anyone that thinks this is ok for brokers to get a free pass is huge part of them problem. If Tommy, Duane, yourself or whoever else does things the "right" way than they are an exception and I commend them for it. However, until I experience it first hand than they'll be lumped into the same category as every other broker I've dealt with. I've seen so many of them get caught red handed leaving fake reviews for themselves on DAT and ITS. So I consider most of those things heresay. Nothing personal, it's just business. Perhaps I should have kept my comments more third person-like instead of lashing out on Tommy per se and for that I apologise. I also appreciate that you can see where myself, or any other carrier would have major issues with deadbeat debtors. I'm a frank individual who routinely offends people with brute honesty. I still stand by my words though and will shout them from the rooftops to anyone new to the industry in hopes of saving them all the agrivation I've dealt with in the past.

Well, get into heavy towing and you too can charge those kinds of rates. I wasn't gouging them, nor rate cutting either. I made damn sure my rates were roughly what all the other companies in that area were charging. It was pretty easy for me since I've worked for a good percentage of them as either a driver, office manager and/or dispatcher. Or you can simply pick up the phone and call around for rates in your area yourself.