Mr Broker, But

Absolutely not! Why blame a freight broker school for my inability to make it when the same goes for a college. How many colleges do you know are going to call you and give your money back if you don't use your degree. It is all about due diligence. Nothing more. If you pay $100 dollars or 10,000 for a class, that will not determine if you will succeed.

I agree that there should be a qualification list to become an agent, but that should be on the brokers part, not a standardize one. If the broker is too lazy to check his agents out, then it's on his shoulders to bear the responsibility of liability.

I support an increase to 100,000 for the bond. I also think in addition, there needs to be more scrunity in who can become a broker.

If you are not sure how hard it is to get a surety bond for a $100,000, just call a bond company. It is not easy. As far as how easy it is to get in this business, there are crooked real estate brokers, accountants and politicians. That is why it is DUE DILIGENCE in this business.

Can be an agent and a broker at the same time or does will me becoming a broker outweight me being an agent.

rlj19 in Urbana, Ohio said: I have been in this business for about 3 years make good money . But who is selling the pie in the sky is it not the guyes charging 500.00 to 8000.00 for school part of the blam? I have people call me all the time that have no idea how hard this business can be it took me almost 6 mo to start making money......but everyone wants to get rich work at home .....Would we not all be better off making it harder to get in the business ......make it more like real estate have a test and college class time. or just someone to tell them the truth . Just asking you why or how did we get to this point . 4 years ago I had no idea what a freight broker was let alone be one I kinda feel into it . I posted a few question but no one gave me any fed back so Mr Broker what do you think ?

In order to be a successful freight broker, you need to run under a umbrella of secrecy, and basically steal more and more over time from the truckers.....then you are in like Flinn......as freight brokers only care about how many invoices they can add up in a day....and truckers really don't need them, and in time, due to all the lies out here and a system that truly is so full of deceit......we truckers have come to realize that freight brokers are a luxury, and so we are seeking other ways to go direct for our freight....Maybe call CHR or TQL or other big brokerages, they are really good at saying "Thats all we have in it." And destroying a Free Market Enterprise...We are seeing this........then you can be rich.....while some schuck of a truck driver buys all the BS out here....
You have to be able to BS lie and cheat....if you can't do this, you'll never make it......Don't let anyone tell you any different either....Transparency is in the forefront right now with Congress to clean up the broker world....and the truckers are going to see that it is a done deal......
I'm sure my reply will be deleted, as people don't like to hear the truth....

this is for mr broker are any one eles who is willing to teach and give someone a chance email me a cljlowe@yahoo.com I got most of the reserch done but now i need the hands on part as a freight agent any one got a company that will train and help please contact me i also have a few leads on customers

Misty in Lebanon, Oregon said: In order to be a successful freight broker, you need to run under a umbrella of secrecy, and basically steal more and more over time from the truckers.....then you are in like Flinn......as freight brokers only care about how many invoices they can add up in a day....and truckers really don't need them, and in time, due to all the lies out here and a system that truly is so full of deceit......we truckers have come to realize that freight brokers are a luxury, and so we are seeking other ways to go direct for our freight....Maybe call CHR or TQL or other big brokerages, they are really good at saying "Thats all we have in it." And destroying a Free Market Enterprise...We are seeing this........then you can be rich.....while some schuck of a truck driver buys all the BS out here....
You have to be able to BS lie and cheat....if you can't do this, you'll never make it......Don't let anyone tell you any different either....Transparency is in the forefront right now with Congress to clean up the broker world....and the truckers are going to see that it is a done deal......
I'm sure my reply will be deleted, as people don't like to hear the truth....

Im sorry you been messed over but there are good brokers out there and I rally hope things get better for you.
good bless

Many truckers are daily messed over with freight brokers. Don't kid yourselves, as that is why OOIDA is asking for Transparency. However, due to all the theft of services out here I believe that freight arrangers need to be brought to the real-estate world and their fees for their services should be disclosed, that way a carrier can make a decision if they are able to afford the luxury of utilizing a broker. Anytime you have secrecy in anything, even the church. Its a given that people will get greedy. Many freight brokers tend to try and make their whole months salary in one or two transactions. Carriers are aware of this, as hey we also deal with shippers and know what they pay.

The smaller brokerages are usually the best, but the big ones such as TQL, CHR, and even Landstar who holds sales rallies and is capable of giving away not one but two trucks, while many struggle out here to hang onto one truck. Amazing!!

I'd like to ask you good brokers. Do you think this is good business? Do you think that a pyramid in sales where a rate can go throw 2 or 3 or 4 hands before it hits a truck is good business? Is this a tool the truckers need to succeed?

Do brokers really know the costs of operations out here, or do you let shippers tell you their rate, and hope it gets moved for profit to you. As sure, you deserve a percentage, but many brokers are taking a very high percentage under a umbrella of secrecy.

Misty in Lebanon, Oregon said: Many truckers are daily messed over with freight brokers. Don't kid yourselves, as that is why OOIDA is asking for Transparency. However, due to all the theft of services out here I believe that freight arrangers need to be brought to the real-estate world and their fees for their services should be disclosed, that way a carrier can make a decision if they are able to afford the luxury of utilizing a broker. Anytime you have secrecy in anything, even the church. Its a given that people will get greedy. Many freight brokers tend to try and make their whole months salary in one or two transactions. Carriers are aware of this, as hey we also deal with shippers and know what they pay.

The smaller brokerages are usually the best, but the big ones such as TQL, CHR, and even Landstar who holds sales rallies and is capable of giving away not one but two trucks, while many struggle out here to hang onto one truck. Amazing!!

I'd like to ask you good brokers. Do you think this is good business? Do you think that a pyramid in sales where a rate can go throw 2 or 3 or 4 hands before it hits a truck is good business? Is this a tool the truckers need to succeed?

Do brokers really know the costs of operations out here, or do you let shippers tell you their rate, and hope it gets moved for profit to you. As sure, you deserve a percentage, but many brokers are taking a very high percentage under a umbrella of secrecy.

Like a stated before I'm sorry you were messed over but like in all transaction you can refuse. The truckers I have spoke with say truckers need to refuse to accept cheap loads.

If a broker fine a lane that is 1000 miles and can get a rate of $4.00($4000.00) a mile and carrier says he will move for $3.00($3000.00), why would I carry what he got paid I got what I wanted. This is no different then Rca selling there Plasma Tv for $1000.00 and Bestbuy selling the flat screen for $2000.00, Why would RCA care

Sydney Adams in Shreveport, Louisiana said: Like a stated before I'm sorry you were messed over but like in all transaction you can refuse. The truckers I have spoke with say truckers need to refuse to accept cheap loads.

If a broker finds a lane that is 1000 miles and can get a rate of $4.00($4000.00) a mile and carrier says he will move for $3.00($3000.00), why would I carry what he got paid I got what I wanted. This is no different then Rca selling there Plasma Tv for $1000.00 and Bestbuy selling the flat screen for $2000.00, Why would RCA care

what Bestbuy made off the deal as long as they got what the wanted. Don't get mad just demand better rates, refuse to take cheat freight because brokers do.

I'm going to say this one time. Many brokers like yourself like to think you are in Retail. That is incorrect, and no where close to being in retail. You are buying nothing, and selling nothing. NOTHING!
What you are doing is "Arranging" bringing shippers/carriers together when needed. Thats it, then the conduit of funds. Which I believe this good faith system will not be with us much longer.

Again just because I post doesn't mean that I do not like brokers. Or had all these bad experiences. What it does mean, is I am smart at business, and know that if a carrier cannot afford this luxury any longer, then our society will look to other ways of doing business.

The trucks cannot sit out here and make a brokers wages in one invoice. It is happening. Look to load boards for proof, look at rates, talk to some shippers.

Broker sell their service if you are dissatified, seek the service else where or like my mother use to say if don't like the way I do it, do it yourself.

Its no doubt brokers sell their services, to the shippers, yet take their cut from the trucks. Now I'm not saying you operate this way. But you and I both know big brokerages do. Many times we have 2 hands in the pot, if not 4 before the rate ever hits the truck. You agree? Or you work alone in your home under your own Broker MC?

If you don't like what I speak because it is the truth, you may see how far your services go without trucks. No where. I can tell your already mixed up, as you want to hold all this POWER. Chi chi attitude, don't like the way I do it, do it yourself? How about tell us how you do...do it? We as carriers are able to do it ourselves. Listen carefully, brokers need the carriers way more than carriers need the brokers. However, I have to agree if you can find a good one, keep them in your back pocket, but they are very difficult to find.

Kudos to you if you are good. That is rare, ask any carrier.

If you want the full truth. Many brokers are breaking the Federal Laws of De-regulation. Thats all I got in it, will destroy a free market. Maybe teach the bad brokers this. Shippers nor brokers should never set a carriers rate. Carriers should, but many say, Thats all I got in it. Where is negotiaton?

Help me out here? Are you aware this is going on out here?

Misty in Lebanon, Oregon said: Its no doubt brokers sell their services, to the shippers, yet take their cut from the trucks. Now I'm not saying you operate this way. But you and I both know big brokerages do. Many times we have 2 hands in the pot, if not 4 before the rate ever hits the truck. You agree? Or you work alone in your home under your own Broker MC?

If you don't like what I speak because it is the truth, you may see how far your services go without trucks. No where. I can tell your already mixed up, as you want to hold all this POWER. Chi chi attitude, don't like the way I do it, do it yourself? How about tell us how you do...do it? We as carriers are able to do it ourselves. Listen carefully, brokers need the carriers way more than carriers need the brokers. However, I have to agree if you can find a good one, keep them in your back pocket, but they are very difficult to find.

Kudos to you if you are good. That is rare, ask any carrier.

If you want the full truth. Many brokers are breaking the Federal Laws of De-regulation. Thats all I got in it, will destroy a free market. Maybe teach the bad brokers this. Shippers nor brokers should never set a carriers rate. Carriers should, but many say, Thats all I got in it. Where is negotiaton?

Help me out here? Are you aware this is going on out here?

I agree that there are bad brokers, greed brokers and brokers who are breaking the law. I don't agree shippers and brokers are setting O/O rates. O/O set the rates if they agree to haul cheap freight (1.50) and you know it at least be 2.00. If I offer you 2.50 and tell me you'll do it for $3.00 then you have set the rate this way as well. This can go for brokers who accept low rate from shippers just get a lane. Negotiation starts with yes or no, if the rate wont pay for tire, gas, insurance, etc then demand more because we are all in the business of making money.

No carriers are out here setting the rates in your scenario of that.......If you want a trucks services and they tell you 3.00 then that is what they need to offer up there services.....

If this doesn't work, then simply as a broker, find a cheaper truck.

I have so much I could teach brokers, the first thing would be to take them for a ride in a truck with a female who does flat bed....I believe they would then get a different feel for rate quoting shippers and realizing that if they put a big dummy under some load who is cheap, he most likely has no idea what he is doing....

I deal with shippers and have seen shippers really disgusted on some truckers who pull in and have no clue....they are getting these trucks from brokers, so realize that as a broker you can't sit back and hire a cheap truck all the time or your gonna loose account due to negligence or basically guys looking really dumb to the customer....

Also realize that trucks need 1.60 right now to break even......If you are giving them 1.98 per mile....thats 38 cents profit to them with many costs.......You've just rate quoted a shipper and are part of the problem......In that I mean your own job security.....Think about it.....A cheap rate like that is making them company driver wages....Wal-Mart pays there drivers as COMPANY DRIVERS 45-50 CENTS A MILE....more than many O/O are making out here.......Do you think as brokers a rate like that is going to keep the guys who utilize your services around for very long?

No its not!! There will then go your jobs!!

Just something to think about and truly care to keep our economy rolling.....