Being a Freight Broker is Difficult
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- Опубликовано: 6 июл 2022
- Tim Higham, the CEO of AscendTMS (TheFreeTMS.com) By InMotion Global, Inc., sold a freight brokerage before starting AscendTMS. In this clip, he explains why he would never open one again. Interesting inputs. For the entire episode, head on over to FreightCaviar.com/Podcasts
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Very negative advice just because he couldn’t make it. Then again, he might want less competition but somebody please get him a bottle
Exactly
Lol
Stop robbing drivers we'll stay put
I haven't heard anything from my usual brokers for months, just recently I have gotten a few calls from some brokers begging me to haul for less than my cost. I'm here to haul but can't do it for less than it costs me.
Every thing on the load board is 2 dollar a mile with 4 dollar fuel. Those two don’t add up
Well to correct that go directly to reliable owner operators and pay them well pay then trying to low ball them after the job is complete..
The situation today with brokers is horrible. Why the turnover is so high is because of the brokers.
Low balling all the way. Loads are paid below the minimum.
They don't care about truckers and they depend on them.
Truckers can find shippers without the brokers. The only solution to avoid dealing with low balling parasites is to be your own broker and to do business to business transportation.
That is not 100% true. Brokers don't really care about good carrier because no matter how good your carrier is they will take you off the load if they find another carrier willing to haul for less. Almost all brokers that I deal with today cares about who is more desperate for that load and haul it for less money so the broker will make more money. I wish there was a law that makes them pay driver always the same percentage.
Nope, I 100% care about having a good carrier but I need to make money too. If I’ve agreed to a rate on a load with you, even if someone calls in and is willing to do it for less, I’m sticking with you as promised. But yes you’re right to an extent. I want to book the person who wants the load the most, they’ll be the most reasonable on their rate. I’d rather book the person trying to go home over the person who doesn’t care if their truck moves or not. And carriers always say to ask the customer for more money, those money hungry hoes ain’t giving up another dime if they don’t have to. They’ll just find another broker willing to work with less money to find a truck.
Gotta build a carrier network. That’s all it is
In this market that’s had for people to do.
The reason for the turnaround is too many long hours pay not good
Damn sorry you have had bad luck man. You gotta learn how to talk more positive. You can just hear it in your voice
Interesting enough, he sold his freight brokerage to a PE firm in 2014 for millions of dollars. He now is the CEO of TheFreeTMS.com. He is just speaking honestly.
Depends on how big you are what your goals are etc. the bigger the brokerage the bigger the problems.
Need to just get rid of freight brokers. Shippers straight to carriers. Brokers are not required just parasites thats not needed.
Lol the work that brokers do, no one else wants to. There’s a reason we exist. Shippers don’t want to do the work of having to find a carrier, and carriers don’t want to do the work of having to find someone who needs freight hauled. Brokers have all the info both sides needs. Carriers just worry about hauling and shippers just worry about making sure the load is ready. The amount of carriers we call sometimes just to get one load covered…trust me, no one wants to do that shit
Broker = pimps. The similarities are hilarious.
That’s from your personal experience
FALSE
Stop doing it.
Logistics brokerages should not be legal.
How would you get your loads then?
@@adriane9284 carriers can make deals with customers directly and become asset carriers. Just invest in storage space/yards and a cross dock
@@nobody3279 no, they can`t. Why don`t they?
@@nobody3279with this comment we see the beginning of an explanation on why no carrier would be efficient doing so..
Brokers = pimps.
Um not sure this is completely accurate....
That’s why the word, “prospect”, is very important to use as a broker. Smh