meonthenet
New Member
Most brokers are the same, but we have to start the conversation somewhere, so TQL.
I don't know what they're teaching their new kid brokers, but it's a problem. I called on a load that the DAT 15 day average was $1100. The TQL broker offered $800. It was like pulling teeth getting him to budge from $800. I told him I wouldn't do it for less than $1000. We ended the call without making a deal. He called me back twice, then agreed to $1000. He said, he never paid so much for this load.
I went to the shipper for pickup. The owner came out and asked me how much I was getting paid, and told me TQL charges him $1300. At $800 the broker was trying to get more than a third. I worked as a leased O/O for years. Companies supplying trailers, insurance, authority, discount fuel......, got 25%. TQL is supplying phone calls and greed.
Of course TQL is not the only offender. The boards/loads prices today are controlled by the brokers. They're deciding what we'll make, what a deal they can get for the shippers business, and how they will slice the pie.
If we could start a forum (oh you already did) where WE boycott one broker at a time, for one month at a time. WE should get better rates, and closer to the 90% of the pie we should be getting! Who's first? Let's decide. Start March,1st. Lets vote on a calendar. Hit the big brokers in the busy season. WE can only send a big message together! Or who has a better idea?
I don't know what they're teaching their new kid brokers, but it's a problem. I called on a load that the DAT 15 day average was $1100. The TQL broker offered $800. It was like pulling teeth getting him to budge from $800. I told him I wouldn't do it for less than $1000. We ended the call without making a deal. He called me back twice, then agreed to $1000. He said, he never paid so much for this load.
I went to the shipper for pickup. The owner came out and asked me how much I was getting paid, and told me TQL charges him $1300. At $800 the broker was trying to get more than a third. I worked as a leased O/O for years. Companies supplying trailers, insurance, authority, discount fuel......, got 25%. TQL is supplying phone calls and greed.
Of course TQL is not the only offender. The boards/loads prices today are controlled by the brokers. They're deciding what we'll make, what a deal they can get for the shippers business, and how they will slice the pie.
If we could start a forum (oh you already did) where WE boycott one broker at a time, for one month at a time. WE should get better rates, and closer to the 90% of the pie we should be getting! Who's first? Let's decide. Start March,1st. Lets vote on a calendar. Hit the big brokers in the busy season. WE can only send a big message together! Or who has a better idea?