$0.68 per mile???
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nightcreacher
Veteran Expediter
Col.its not my buddy,its a friend of my ex wifes,she works for a brokerage here in ohio.I was at the show cause my ex step daughter and step son were showing.As i once stated,before going into trucking I was a horse trainer.Its not her brokerage,she just basically a dispatcher for the broker,and like I stated,a load that is actually paying 6000 bucks is being offered for 3000,sure that looks good 2.40 a mile,but not if you have to pay for escorts and permits for over size loads
arkjarhead
Veteran Expediter
Col,
How is it a bad deal on the brokers part to make 3 grand for doing some paperwork? Why should they get over 50% of the pie? Seems to me you off all people would know brokers aren't incurring that kind of expense.
How is it a bad deal on the brokers part to make 3 grand for doing some paperwork? Why should they get over 50% of the pie? Seems to me you off all people would know brokers aren't incurring that kind of expense.
Tennesseahawk
Veteran Expediter
The Col can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think he means the reputation of a broker that takes more than their fair share will soon catch up with him/her. And said broker will be looking for another way to pay his/her bills.
nightcreacher
Veteran Expediter
yes, but t hawk,unless you over heard the conversation i did,you would not know about the pay
Tennesseahawk
Veteran Expediter
Ahh... but all too often, shippers have loose tongues or have paperwork dealing with the broker in with the BOL. Of course, we all know the carrier isn't to discuss rates with shippers when a middle man is involved, but nothing says the conversation can't start the other way.
Jefferson3000
Expert Expediter
Once upon a time, there was a large cheese expediter. This cheese expediter had a brokerage for which to elicit help from smaller cheese haulers when their own mousketeers were unavailable.
One day a little mouse from a smaller cheese hauler saw a load of cheese listed for pickup in his hometown, and delivering deeper into his state on the big cheese expediter's load board. This "C" load of cheese had an instant award price of $366 for a 236 mile cheese run. Currently, the Low Bid was showing for $401 and change. The wee little mouse was tired and feeling kind of indignant and decided to bid $800, even though there already showed a lower bid for the lump of cheese. Within a few minutes the mouse received a call from the cheese broker asking of he could negotiate a lower rate. The wee little mouse protested, as there was already a much lower bid anyways. The mouse was soon to find out that no other mouse had actually bid on the lump of cheese, but that the low bid was in fact phony, and only intended as a "suggested" price by the cheese broker, in order to drive the final rate down.The wee little mouse also discovered from the unwitting agent that the "low bid" was about 75% of what the cheese broker was actually billing for the lump. The super sly parent company that owned the cheese brokerage was attempting to keep anywhere from 25 to 50% of the price of the cheese for themselves by creating a false feeding frenzy. Now that the wee little mouse knows the truth, he and his wee little friends just bid their normal tariff and still continue to bring home the cheese.
THE END
Note: Any similarity to any cheese expediter past or present is purely coincidental, and should in no way be used to incriminate said cheese expediter. However, if the reader chooses to read into this post beyond the point of fiction and satire, he does so at his own risk. The names of any party engaging in any activity that might be construed as similar to this fictional story, have been changed to protect their guilt.
One day a little mouse from a smaller cheese hauler saw a load of cheese listed for pickup in his hometown, and delivering deeper into his state on the big cheese expediter's load board. This "C" load of cheese had an instant award price of $366 for a 236 mile cheese run. Currently, the Low Bid was showing for $401 and change. The wee little mouse was tired and feeling kind of indignant and decided to bid $800, even though there already showed a lower bid for the lump of cheese. Within a few minutes the mouse received a call from the cheese broker asking of he could negotiate a lower rate. The wee little mouse protested, as there was already a much lower bid anyways. The mouse was soon to find out that no other mouse had actually bid on the lump of cheese, but that the low bid was in fact phony, and only intended as a "suggested" price by the cheese broker, in order to drive the final rate down.The wee little mouse also discovered from the unwitting agent that the "low bid" was about 75% of what the cheese broker was actually billing for the lump. The super sly parent company that owned the cheese brokerage was attempting to keep anywhere from 25 to 50% of the price of the cheese for themselves by creating a false feeding frenzy. Now that the wee little mouse knows the truth, he and his wee little friends just bid their normal tariff and still continue to bring home the cheese.
THE END
Note: Any similarity to any cheese expediter past or present is purely coincidental, and should in no way be used to incriminate said cheese expediter. However, if the reader chooses to read into this post beyond the point of fiction and satire, he does so at his own risk. The names of any party engaging in any activity that might be construed as similar to this fictional story, have been changed to protect their guilt.
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arkjarhead
Veteran Expediter
I see what you guys are saying now. That would be a good way to put yourself out of business.
nightcreacher
Veteran Expediter
ya but this goes on every day.it happened when i was hauling produce in the early 80's and it goes on now.When you work the load board,how do you know the rate is an hinest rate
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Veteran Expediter
Just went back through re-reading and still don't see anything about a Monday delivery.
I do realize that load may have been hauled on a t/t along with additional freight. My theory is the driver had to get his truck turned back in in MI, "because you can't make any money out here".
I ended up loading out of Del Rio to NC for more than double the $.68.