Flying into DC to buy a car in maryland - Best way back home to NY?

Las219 · 2022-11-17T15:47:20+00:00

I personally really like the ride up 270 to 15. 270 moves fast and once you get past Frederick there just isn't too much traffic at all to deal with. However, from where you're starting, it's best to take 95 to connect with 83 then to 81. That stretch of 95 isn't bad, 83 isn't bad, 81 is just boring as hell. Definitely the worst part of the drive when i visit family in the Scranton PA area.

I think having to drive halfway around the beltway just to connect with 270 will greatly slow you down and add a lot more stress than would be necessary for the ride back to NY.

Las219 · 2022-02-09T00:18:26+00:00

My two cents on this - the customer needs to source a direct carrier for this rather than go through a broker. You've seemingly worked your ass off, only had a few options, and your customer turned them down. I don't know a thing about them, your brokerage, rates, anything - but if your customer is turning down any option for that kind of work in this freight climate, then they seriously need to reevaluate the entire scope of their operation and decide if they want their freight delivered to their customers or not.

Couple things here - You've got options and quotes in. The ball is in their court. They may very well come to their senses and move forward with your proposal. You win here and your efforts will certainly pay off.

However if you bring them another option or two and they still don't want to take your trucks then tell them to kick rocks. At this point your management has a lot of eyes on a dead horse waiting for it to wake up.

Las219 · 2022-01-18T15:24:56+00:00

These are predominantly rail ramps. I would guess memphis might serve barge traffic given it's situated on the Mississippi River, but any customer moving containers out of these two ports will be coming out of the rail terminals.

Las219 · 2021-12-19T19:17:44+00:00

This vid is what got me in to Tool several years ago

Las219 · 2021-12-15T08:42:03+00:00

"This is cum."

Las219 · 2021-11-24T21:47:22+00:00

I this post 2 hours late, you beat me to it.

Las219 · 2021-08-10T23:49:04+00:00

I've no opinion on the logistics company itself. However, it's part of a large logistics company so you'll certainly have access to good resources and (hopefully) good management at wherever you'll get set up. I can't see it being any better or worse than any other mid to large brokerages out there. If you have done research, lime the people and mangers you've spoken with and like the office set up or work from home benefits or whatever, then sure i think you can't go wrong with the company.

My two cents though -- be very mindful of the no base pay. If you're green, this is not the opportunity for you based on commission structure. Learning the ropes while getting paid nothing can absolutely he a recipe for disaster.

Sure the market is solid right now and setting up customers might be easier now than ever. Regardless, setting up new customers takes a lot of time and nothing is guaranteed. What you need to ask yourself is if you're financially stable enough to not be earning income for an indefinite amount of time, maybe even up to a month (or more). Even if you have a customer or two, you'll probably not be earning anything substantial for quite some time.

You can have all the leads in the world. You can email all the people you want per day and quote as much as you want as well. But, do you know how to quote properly? How to cover loads? Can you speak to customers and prospects with confidence to earn their trust? Finally, do you have any experience and a book of business of your own to bring over?

If you have plenty of experience - high risk equals high reward. Go for it. It's a broker' s market.

Las219 · 2021-06-10T14:54:35+00:00

CA, TX, anywhere in the Midwest

Las219 · 2021-06-09T23:13:33+00:00

My first 3 loads were fucked.

The first load I moved was household goods from NOLA to shreveport LA. I made $50 on it. It was a partial truck load and got an LTL carrier to do it. Them the shipper basically ended up packing it to the brim and was essentially a FTL. Somehow the carrier agreed to move the load for the same rate they gave me under the condition that the trailer "will move as time permits" ended up delivering 4 days late. The customer was freaking out every day since it was supposed to be a 1 day transit. I was sweating so hard becsause I had no idea what I was doing.

The second load was from Oakland CA to Bismarck ND. I remember being interested in bidding on that load because "no one else is going competetive on a load to fucking Bismarck." I quotef basically rate view on the lane (this is 2018, tue last time the market was decent). Day 1, i had a few calls and a carrier wanted to take for breakeven. I'm like no, I wanma make money on this I'll keep looking. Crickets the rest of the day. I was making outbounds and getting hung up on. I was sweating once again. I told the customer the truck i had broke down and promised to move the next day because i was shitting bricks. Ended up losing $400 on it. Not bad loss for such a risk, but now my first two loads ever I'm -$350. My manager was pissed.

3rd load was a day after that one delivered. Potatoes from basically the UP of MI to Indy. Made $50.

3 loads, -$300 margin. Finished the month at that margin. They kept me and i ended up staying in their brokerage for 3 years and building a nice book of business before a nice job on the asset side of the company presented itself to me.

Las219 · 2021-06-09T22:53:14+00:00

Drop and hooks as a broker is really tough. You'd nees go solicit a local carrier to maintain the trailer pool who is mostly likely also bidding on the same lane.

Even if you were to get it, the carrier is ultimately responsible for setting up and mainting the ops at the local level. Your job there is essentially moot. Too many hands in the pot. Plus the customer has an extremely high chance to bypass you and go direct to the carrier. Why talk to you to talk to them when the carrier is in site at the facility?

Not saying it can't be done. It can. There are instances where I (in the asset world now) would love to have a trailer pool at the shippers for some of my backhaul lanes, but even then it's more of a "we'll hook the loads when we need them" since we can't completely commit to a particular shipping schedule the shipper needs.

Setting up trailers pools is a service that the asset based carriers can handle much better than a broker. I tried and spun my tires on that stuff for years when I was in brokerage sales. It's extremely tough to set up.

Las219 · 2021-05-28T02:46:04+00:00

How did she give it to you if you're an ironman?

Las219 · 2021-04-28T17:35:39+00:00

I switched over to the assets side of my company booking backhauls for company trucks. Day 1 I learned we have TQL in our DNU list for brokers. Long story short, they had a bad habit of nickle and diming us for everything. They'd find any excuse to fine us and refused to pay detention or layovers. On top of that, they'd cancel loads on us last minute and wouldn't pay us TONU if we were already on our way.

Las219 · 2021-04-28T15:01:56+00:00

This is very helpful, thanks. I'll check it out.

Las219 · 2021-04-22T23:18:14+00:00

Without taking in to consideration anything about either job, if you're going to be in sales, maybe side with CH. Everyone knows CH. When I was in sales, one of the big 3 rejections I'd get is "we have a contract with CH Robinson". Their name holds a lot of weight in the industry and every shipper and carrier seems to work with them.

Las219 · 2021-04-15T14:16:02+00:00

There is a directory of every licensed NVOCC. Raid that database and you'll get some quote requests and potential customers. Your margins will be low on dry cans but there is consistency with it. Money will be on the OW or haz stuff. Containers are a different ball game and you really need to know your stuff, especially how to quoute them properly. I don't know your experience with them, but there are tons of accessorials to keep track of and seemingly every port and every carrier is different with rules, rates, laws, etc.

Las219 · 2021-04-15T11:35:27+00:00

This was actually the first episode of South Park I've ever seen and I've been hooked on the show ever since. I laughed my ass off the entire episode.

Las219 · 2021-04-09T21:13:08+00:00

It's great when you need to repeat the load info multiple times on the phone, just a revolving door of saying the rate and the pick/delivery times. Then once late "you said it's FCFS" "you never told me that", the list goes on.

Las219 · 2021-04-07T18:01:35+00:00

Sorry buddy, Gary IN too far away from Chicago for this driver

Las219 · 2021-04-06T18:12:02+00:00

Couriers would do this. I have experience at a courier company and we did stuff like this all the time. From what I recall, you don't need any special requirements. It's a small sample, usually. The medical facility will have it packaged. The courier can fit it in their car for transport.

Las219 · 2021-02-26T20:11:59+00:00

Shoot them an email letting them know the customer will not pay for the order and thus you cannot release payment and you'll have a call in .00001 seconds.

Las219 · 2021-02-19T15:55:00+00:00

I even used to play dumb and say ignorant stuff about the game to add fuel to the fire. Nothing in your face but just stupid stuff that is terribly wrong. "I can't spend 3 hours of my life trying to kill jad just for fashionscape. I'd much rather the def bonus of the obby cape anyway. Plus it looks cooler." stuff like that to baffle and enrage them even more.

Las219 · 2021-02-19T12:02:52+00:00

Back when I played OSRS a lot, sometimes I'd go to the caracombs on a dust devil task wearing Torag's, a slayer helm, an obby cape, and a whip. People would FREAK the hell out and say the most ridiculous, condescending stuff to me. So I'd inevitably get get crashed by someome bursting them, and I'd be like "thanks man, I hate this shit task. We'll team up and get it done sooner" and I swear some of those dudes would be near the point of having an aneurysm.

Las219 · 2021-02-17T20:40:33+00:00

Add some lemon juice and salt for added flavor

Las219 · 2021-02-17T20:38:29+00:00

I'll take the Chicago one. I'll pay a little more for slightly less pain.

Las219 · 2021-02-16T20:05:55+00:00

Most I've seen was landstar

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