What is inside of a brokers head?

Is it any different than a leach realtor. Or insurance salesman

some on here list 2-3 different brokers for the same load

now lightway is moving a lot of fertilizer and grain around Nd. They are from Canada but are half owned by terry at commodity service

a USA company out of Minnesota and Florida

they have a broker in California also

I agree. They did the same thing to us in AB and SK. We hardly hauled fertilizer they took it all at horribly low rates. And yes, I too hope they run their equipment into the ground and can't afford to fix them.

It would be nice if we carriers weren't led around by the nose all the time by some of these brokers, not all of us are ignorant, as we know when we are being midlead.

find direct customers :)

You make a valid point.

It costs the broker absolutely nothing to post the load. Zero costs into it and they have exposure to thousands of trucks today. Load boards and the internet have opened every market up to every individual who chooses to work in the industry. All it takes is one truck to take the load and the broker makes his sale. Just a numbers game for the brokers, the more loads they posts, the more trucks see it, the more trucks that see it, the greater the odds someone will take it. All they need to do is post it and play the odds in today's world. Unfortunate, but that is the world we live in today and it makes it that much harder for the individual to be successful. Margins have been beaten down based on volume and the shippers know it. So many variables that create low rates, supply of trucks, demand of freight etc but most of all it is the driver living in fear of the banker, whenever fear is the motivator, irritional decision making will almost always supersede the rational thought process. Once a shipper gets a cheap rate, they say the last guy took it and so on. There is a small group of active and intelligent operators on these forums, however that is a very small percentage of the actual population in the industry. The rest of population has the attitude of I don't care about anyone but myself and i am going to do what i need to do even if it is against the industry norm. The load boards are more of a tool for the shippers then they are for the trucker. Truckers think they get access to all these potential loads, but in reality, it is a tool for the shipper to reach out to thousands of trucks to get competitive rates.

I have been seeing rates like that too. Unreal.

I see one at $29 per ton at 329 miles. That's around $3.70 per mile with 44 ton on board.