the problem is you are trying to enlighten some very experienced and savvy drivers, many of whom are also currently or have been brokers themselves. We're not nearly as ignorant as you think we are. You got your surmised negativity and opposition in this thread because we've heard it before. You think you're the first person to think of such a thing? You're not. Expediting just chock-full of ex-uaw autoworkers and other unioners who have that mentality coming into the business.
Plus, you're using the term "broker" to apply to brokers, 3pls, carriers with a broker bond, and drivers who broker their own loads. Some of the things you are saying about brokers simply don't apply to the vast majority of those with broker bonds who broker loads. Most brokers take in far less money than drivers do even after expenses. If you want to get paid all of the broker money, then get a broker bond and have at it. Brokers also take risks that most drivers do not take, such as having to pay the carrier and thus the driver if the shipper fails to pay. Brokers do far more than "just picking up the phone and/or tapping a few keys on their keyboard to post the loads."
all the drivers out here are small business owners, not company drivers. Anyone who goes on strike are going on strike against themselves, no one else. Supply and demand in the expediting industry is such that if 80% of the expediters went out on strike, traditional trucking would take up most of the slack initially, and within two or three weeks the expediting fleet will have been replaced and the rates would be right back to where the capacity allows it to be.
So, what's my suggestion? Start thinking like a business owner and not like an employee. Quit worrying about what someone else is making and concentrate on your business and how to make it profitable, because you're the only one who can make it profitable, since no one else, especially carriers, brokers, shippers or the rest of us business owners cares one wit whether you are profitable or not.
