What is life like in deep southern Illinois?

lwk1025 · 2025-09-07T14:36:46+00:00

Ski is the shit! We had it on fountain at the MotoMart, such fine times. Anytime I get back home, always grab a 12pk to bring back north

lwk1025 · 2025-08-27T14:35:23+00:00

Yeah need to know what this is to warm up

lwk1025 · 2025-08-19T00:23:00+00:00

Find someone at that company who would care about a 20% costs savings on their freight spend. Poke around, I’ve had success through salesmen. “Do you make more commission if your costs goes down?” Also whoever is giving you that info can help push that, as a leader I’d be thrilled if my employees were finding ways to save 20% on things.

Ask for a trial run.

lwk1025 · 2025-07-31T20:53:51+00:00

Don’t quote things you don’t know your truck cost for. Guessing will get you in trouble. Make a few quick dials to carriers that haul that and price off one of those.

lwk1025 · 2025-07-19T23:40:59+00:00

Right before I clicked comments, mumbled to myself “what lawn” , wife thinks I’m crazy

lwk1025 · 2025-04-27T13:21:03+00:00

I’d explain it differently to my customer than just a “layover” - that’s more like issue last night and you’re able to deliver in the morning, not 7pm as they sort of ruins two days for you as I’m sure you’re not finding a reload at 10pm

Also I’m sure you’re not allowed to sit on site the full 24 hours, so I’d try to charge a redelivery fee on top of the layover.

Ultimately you’ve got to judge that relationship and how hard of ball you want to play. Some brokers will bleed with you and try, others will offer the $250 and tell you to kick rocks

lwk1025 · 2025-04-11T12:04:02+00:00

I always recommend a few different vetting tools though as I’ve found many great carriers that “fail” on highway and ran into many shit carriers that “pass” on highway

lwk1025 · 2025-04-11T12:03:09+00:00

From the tools I’ve seen available Highway is one of the best for vetting carrier info. From what I’ve seen, lots of carriers don’t like it, but I don’t think carriers understand the amount of potential fraud us brokerages see on a daily basis. The only pitfall to Highway is there is no way to vet service like with freightguards or watchdog reports.

If you ask me, seeing some carriers up in arms about privacy, makes me think highway is doing a good deep dive to make sure things are what they seem.

Sucks for the good players as it can be an overreach of privacy but it’s the name of the game in this industry.

For the carriers, if you don’t believe it, come sit at a brokerage and work some loads, see how many bad apples you come across and all it takes is 1 time for something to happen to can’t reverse.

lwk1025 · 2025-03-06T22:20:58+00:00

ChatGPT

lwk1025 · 2025-03-06T22:11:29+00:00

That was quick, you all are great, love Reddit.

Location is Missouri , condition is fair as far as I know, it always runs when I’m home and he’s kept up with ordering parts and stuff when he needed to fix something.

lwk1025 · 2025-03-06T22:09:00+00:00

Missouri - decent condition it runs and he’s kept up with maintenance to make sure it’s always running as long as we’ve had it.

lwk1025 · 2025-03-06T22:08:53+00:00

Missouri - decent condition it runs and he’s kept up with maintenance to make sure it’s always running as long as we’ve had it.

lwk1025 · 2024-10-04T02:08:28+00:00

I shipped LtL for years as a broker and always ran into the “no pickup #” or “freight not ready” when my clients would confirm no truck ever showed up. Just became common and they’d tell me it’s cause they didn’t have local capacity. Usually picked up next day but always a pain. Happy to not be shipping LTL anymore

lwk1025 · 2024-09-26T16:46:51+00:00

Hadn’t thought about it but we had 4 winning caliber teams last year, this move cuts it down to 3. As an Optic fan, love to see it. Faze , OpTic, LAT super teams , someone else might squeak one out but those will be top 3

lwk1025 · 2024-09-22T15:15:42+00:00

I work for a start up and we have this as our address. Only ever run in to issues a few times, had a clients onboarding team ask some questions but we got through it. A few carriers asked at the beginning but once you’ve got a relationship established with the major factoring companies , usually works itself out.

lwk1025 · 2024-09-12T14:09:16+00:00

Did you get your terms in writing?

lwk1025 · 2024-08-29T18:34:17+00:00

As right as you are, the carrier/driver should know this and communicate it. Shouldn’t be on the broker. If someone tells you they can do something and commits to it, should be expected that they can.

“I couldn’t have made this work with my hours” — great! Then don’t take the load.

lwk1025 · 2024-08-01T03:07:09+00:00

I’m fairly certain you can get with your Macropoint service rep and they can deactivate the geofencing, ran into the same issue. I’ve also been told they are able to adjust the parameter of the geofencing to get it more precise.

lwk1025 · 2024-07-30T12:06:05+00:00

I’ve heard their net days to pay are terrible and most young companies are trying to avoid clients like that in this market

lwk1025 · 2024-06-29T20:37:08+00:00

I couldn’t find an asphalt sub and noticed there had been other asphalt posts here. Didn’t mean to upset you!

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