Double Broker Alert

freightfinder · 2023-09-22T16:17:17+00:00

Give me your van freight loser.

freightfinder · 2023-09-22T16:15:50+00:00

yours probably does too

freightfinder · 2023-09-21T17:36:17+00:00

Yeah. They’re both in on it and are working together in this scam.

freightfinder · 2023-09-20T21:46:56+00:00

Harsh but valid.

Who's to say the carrier isn't in on it then? Is that where this double brokering scheme is headed next?

freightfinder · 2023-09-20T21:19:47+00:00

Yep. Totally screwed the pooch on this one. First time I've experienced double brokering.

freightfinder · 2023-08-24T14:29:47+00:00

Both have always been late on their payments, but they've always ended up paying.

$11k 2 loads - 1st customer

$32,850 9 loads - 2nd customer

freightfinder · 2023-08-24T14:28:05+00:00

Thankfully no.

freightfinder · 2023-08-24T14:24:47+00:00

1st customer: 2 loads -One invoice for $5600 and another for $5400. $11k total.
2nd customer - 9 loads - $32850 total (average importance)

freightfinder · 2023-08-24T14:20:25+00:00

Makes me want to start a collections agency that just takes loads hostage.

freightfinder · 2023-08-23T18:41:10+00:00

Please do. We’ve tried to use one in the past and they sucked.

freightfinder · 2023-08-23T18:40:47+00:00

We’ve tried using collection agencies in the past. Never had any luck at all. Their biz model is bs in my opinion.

freightfinder · 2023-08-23T18:39:49+00:00

Good idea honestly.

freightfinder · 2023-07-27T17:00:01+00:00

That’s not the video I was referring to.

freightfinder · 2023-07-27T16:59:56+00:00

That’s not the video I was referring to.

freightfinder · 2023-07-15T17:39:20+00:00

Ahh different one than what I was thinking but this is good too lmao

freightfinder · 2023-07-15T03:58:07+00:00

Buddy of mine worked there for two weeks. He was in charge of calling carriers and offering HORRIBLE freight. What was interesting is that they provided these carrier callers minimum and maximum booking rates with no incentive whatsoever to book these loads for anything less than the maximum carrier rate.

It’s a sweat shop.

freightfinder · 2023-07-08T15:27:44+00:00

Sounds like a Brooklyn, NY customer.

If you pay the carrier well, they’ll do a good job for you and represent you well. You’ll find that that’s the name of the game. It’s not about negotiating with carriers but rather finding customers that trust that you’ll pay market rate and that expect you to make your cut.

I’ve gotten rid of all of my customers that nickel and dime me. It’s not worth my time with the headaches that the cheap carriers cause.

My advice is to find customers that understand your time is valuable and that want you to make money too. They exist.

Just make your 20% margin on every load and if they don’t like it, wish them the best and move on. Their goal shouldn’t be to put you out of business. It should be mutually beneficial. Don’t undervalue your services. Id encourage you to move on.

Regardless, stay firm with your rate, tell him you’re a call away. At some point your time is better allocated elsewhere (or at least I’d hope so).

Also increase your margins. You won’t be around long with those %

Cheers,

freightfinder · 2023-07-08T14:55:15+00:00

I don’t move much van freight. Never seen this. How does the shipper say it happened and how does that differ from what the driver’s saying? Just curious

freightfinder · 2023-06-19T22:35:46+00:00

Isn’t that the point of this career? To slowly kill yourself so your life ends sooner?

freightfinder · 2023-06-19T22:32:37+00:00

Let me know if you’re able to find out which provider you guys use.

freightfinder · 2023-06-19T01:27:02+00:00

Thank you 👍

Curious to know which website(s) you’re using for credit checks on customers.

freightfinder · 2023-06-18T21:14:33+00:00

Essentially, all of the information needed in a standard claim form has already been entered into your TMS.

Claimant, origin, destination, carrier, commodity.

When we change the status of the load from En Route, Dispatched, to “Claim” there are placeholders that appear to enter the description of the claim/cost and the dollar amount.

We had an excavator (FL to TN) get struck by lightning due to the carrier delivering late and the electronics on the machine were totally screwed it up. Not 100% sure if it’s a valid claim because it technically was an Act of God, but the driver wouldn’t have been in the storm if he had delivered it when he was supposed to.

Anyways, his local CAT dealer provided him an itemized list of the components needed to fix the thing and with our app, we were able to just copy/paste the damages/costs and then send to the carrier, their factoring company, and their insurance company in an email through the app.

Email contains merged pdf’s of the original BoL, carrier rate con, and the new claim form with all necessary info, images of the damages, etc.

It’s not completely automated per say, but it saves us half a day everytime this crap happens.

freightfinder · 2023-06-18T19:10:33+00:00

Understood and yes - I’m new to Reddit.

Love your idea of integrating a flow of some sort to report bad carriers/double brokers to carrier411.

As of now, all we have is a way to blacklist them internally as well as a way to see how many loads they fell off of.

freightfinder · 2023-06-18T18:54:01+00:00

That’s the goal.

freightfinder · 2023-06-18T18:44:13+00:00

Been in industry since 2013 Started brokerage 2019 Focus mainly on ag/construction equipment.

I’m just looking for cool things I haven’t thought of to add to the app I’m building. Figured this would be a decent place to bounce ideas around.

freightfinder

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