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Originally Posted by hoohaa
Ha-ha...Brokers are cutting each others throats, and stealing each others customers, and I'm supposed to stand the moral ground? ROTFLMAO.
If I have a chance to get a customer, I do it without thinking twice about it now.
This is business, nothing moral about it.
I use to think that way at first, but after 4 years of dealing with this crap, I just dont give a sh%t anymore.
There are so many times, when I book a load, and get the confermation, then the load cancels.
They leave it on the board , just in case someone calls, and is willing to do it for less.
The way it is now, with the shortage of freight, the increasing expences of truck ownership, I gotta do what I gotta do.
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There is no shortage of freight.
Your methods remind me of a carrier that covered my loads only to cancel due to "broken down trucks or trailers" before the load even picked up, then the customer called me up cancelling the load. Sure, these things happen in transportation. But to have a load tendered over to you and to have it cancel on you is one thing, but be careful. We're not stupid guys, I know that load got picked up because the shipper told me it did. 1+1=2 right?
Just how truckers talk among each other, brokers do the same.
I had an unknowledgeable shipper who put the rate agreement on the BOL so the carrier see's (which we found out later when you turn the BOL, to get paid). Needless to say the carrier tried to back solicit US the difference in pay, and back solicited our CUSTOMER for service.
We get it guys, this might be how some carriers or independent drivers do business. Go ahead, keep doing this and you might find yourself against the wall, with no GOOD shippers. We deal with the good shippers, take all the ****ty ones off our hands, please!
The carrier and customer I spoke about can longer do business with ours. Which we handle 28% of domestic freight today...so feel free, piss us off, just don't bother asking us for freight. Everybody gets along.
Back Soliciting = Laziness.