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What I don't understand is how partner carriers were not pain on time when this company obviously uses a factoring company to factor their invoices. There is no way a company like this that is close to bankruptcy has enough cash reserve to pay their drivers within 24 hours after delivering a...

I can see having had to close the brokering side down because once you burn too many partner carriers, no one will bid on your loads. I just don't see how this can happen. Most of all of the other smaller expedite carriers have never had any problems collecting payment from their customers...

What I don't understand is why a company would broker loads to outside carriers if they don't have the money to pay those carriers? Also, how does a small expedite company have 40 thousand dollars a month in debt? Thanks for posting this. I'm goad I didn't go to work for this company. I'm...

Looking at that picture is a reminder of how dangerous this job really is. I have had so many near misses over the years it isn't even funny. I once hit a half foot deep puddle of water at 70 miles per hour. My van started to fishtail and I finally regained control. I could have flipped and...

True. I know that. What I'm trying to say is that now that Active On Demand is moving more of their customers freight in house (via Roadrunner) there is less of it being brokered out and then double brokered out to the smaller carriers. That has got to help solve some of the problems with the...

I bet XPO acquiring NLM and Roadrunner taking over most of the John Deere loads from Active on Demand is really putting a damper on the double brokering stuff. There used to be a guy that all he did was double broker FedEx Custom Critical loads to different carriers at a small profit margin. If...

Some carriers make a living off of double brokering freight. I had a carrier call my owner once and say that they were bidding on a load for my truck off of NLM. They were going to bid it high enough to pay me a dollar a mile and still make a couple hundred dollars off of it. They never got the...

Grand daddy always said "insurance is only good if you don't use it!" All insurance companies will try and wiggle their way out of paying a claim. Having too many links in the fence like you do in the multi-carrier model just gives all of the involved insurance companies more hands to toss the...

If you look into their insurance history, you will see that their bond has been cancelled 4 times in the past six months. Could it be that they were opening new bonds up in other peoples names after failing to pay people for hauling their freight? It's interesting to say the least. I wish one of...

Why is VOI so adamant about everyone having a insurance policy that says "all autos" when it only covers trucks that are leased when one of the company trucks has a breakdown? Also, why not just have a third party watchdog monitor all insurance policies for everyone, or have one or two insurance...

Hazmat, how long has it been since you stopped working for this company? I'm trying to find out current information about them. Also, Pallud why would a company have their broker authority involuntarily revoked if they decided to not be a broker any longer? They would have simply sent a letter...

I have been talking to a fleet owner who has cargo vans leased on to a company in Traverse City, Michigan. I looked them up on safer web and it looks like they just had their broker authority involuntarily revoked. I was wondering if anyone on here has ever worked with this company either as a...

There should be some sort of incentive for companies who are new who do things professionally. Lets say that brokers don't require vetted companies to be in business for six months or a year before they broker out freight to them. If a new company does background checks on their drivers...

The problem with having an expensive insurance policy for a new carrier is that it crushes the company. Lets day I invest thousands to get the highest level of Sylectus, then a iron clad insurance policy, decals on my trucks, and tracking devices. That is all find and dandy, but that doesn't...

My logic is that if I had a million dollars to be self-insured, I can really lower the rates because my insurance would be low. I have never seen a freight claim on a load that is being hauled by a cargo van. Of course Panther assumes more risk by being self insured, but they make that up in low...

I would really like to know what happened John. They have apparently been out of business for a few months and I barely found out about it. I wonder why they have not raised a bigger deal about this. Maybe one of their drivers had a freight claim and it was not paid. Who knows what happened...

I never said that 80 cents per mile was the norm. It was the lowest rate me and my fleet owner ever got from Eclipse. Panther and the big boys are the ones cutting down the rates. I'm glad NLM and Active Aero loads are going on their own trusks. Most of the bigger companies were just bidding on...

Everyone is operating cheap these days. It's mostly the bigger carriers. Panther pays 70 cents per mile plus a 14 cent per mile fuel surcharge. That is 84 cents per mile for a cargo van. The lowest rate I ever had at Eclipse was for 80 cents per mile "all in!" That isn't much different from what...

The bigger carriers have been doing shady stuff for years unchecked. I know a company that has been brokering loads out for at least ten years with no broker bond - and to this day they have no broker bond and no one has ever done anything to them. They pay everyone on time, but that's besides...

Does anyone know what happened to Eclipse Expediting. I went to their website last night and it says that they had to close down their carrier side due to having some insurance problems. They claim that some of the bigger expedite carriers had them blackballed by insurance underwrites. I was...