So I just looked at your little rant on your "petition" that has garnered a whopping 16 signatures (which is really 11, when you take out the duplicates and the ones who signed every family member's name).
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To: U.S. Congress Regulate Freight Brokers and Save Every Family up to $400 a month immediately!
Have you ever wondered why the price of a pair of shoes is so high? Ever question why a pound of meat is so expensive? The answer is... transportation. Every product sold includes transportation costs, heck; even the advertising mailed to your mailbox or in a newspaper must be shipped to get it to you, so between physically shipping the product and advertising, that’s close to 50% of what you pay at retail.
Wrong. Transportation accounts for about 3% of the cost of goods sold, not your 50% that you're trying to claim.
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Transportation spending relative to the cost of goods sold is on the rise.(Management UPDATE: AN EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OF INDUSTRY NEWS) | Logistics Management (Highlands Ranch, Co.) | Find Articles at BNET
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Transportation is a 650 billion dollar industry, but most of these profits are kept by a small number of freight brokers that feel entitled to most of the profits, and do little for their golden "commissions" which varies up to 60 percent. Every time you buy a car, a home, a taco, or a magazine, you just put tens of thousands of dollars in a freight broker’s pocket.
Wrong. Me eating a taco does not put tens of thousands of dollars into anyone's pocket. That is the dumbest analogy ever.
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Businesses are secretly deceived with inflated shipping costs that are ultimately passed to all consumers.
Wrong. Shippers know exactly where their money is going. And guess what - they don't care. All they care about is that their freight is moved for what they are willing to pay to have it moved.
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All truckers know this; remember when they went on strike in 2008? Remember the news reporting the price of everything going up 20 percent afterwards? Did you know despite paying 20 percent more, 45,000 truckers still went out of business?
Wrong. That was great for a laugh though. The "strike" (lol) of 2008 did absolutely nothing to affect prices. If you disagree, provide a legitimate source for this claim.
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Guess who took your money and never paid it to truckers and keep demanding more? Most people have never heard of a freight broker, nor understand the impact they have on our lives. Today that impact is unemployment, higher prices, foreclosures, and sleepless nights.
:rofl:I'm sorry, these are just getting funnier and funnier.
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Can you see how much transportation costs effects how much we spend?
One freight broker recently took in 26 billion dollars and does not own one single truck to haul freight, and guess where the 26 billion came from? Who is being laid off tomorrow because of them? Maybe your company will have to cut back next.
I'm not entirely sure what broker you're referring to, because CH Robinson, which is the largest brokerage in the country, takes in a gross revenue of about $1.9 billion per quarter, which is less than $8 billion per year. So yeah - I'm curious as to where that $26 billion came from.
The funny part is that with a GROSS revenue of $1.9 billion, their NET revenue was about $920 million. That means their operating costs are 50% of their revenue. That "10 minute phone call" must be friggin expensive.
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Industry of *********s was written by Paul Todd, an industry professional that blows the whistle on freight brokers and how they are maliciously inflating shipping costs through deception. This book talks about how freight brokers pay-off dirty shipping managers at businesses that take money under the table, and guess what... CEO's and General Managers do not know this.
And here we get to the meat and potatoes! You're simply looking for free advertising for your POS book! That's why in the link you posted above, you didn't link to the "petition" (lol) page, but rather you linked to the page that advertised your joke of a book! That's funny how you are whining and complaining that brokers are taking money out of your pocket, yet you're more than willing to take money out of CAD's pocket by trying to sidestep their advertising guidelines!