How do brokers get away with such low rates

603141

{"replyTo":"","text":"Because they can","replyToPid":0}

497499

{"replyToPid":0,"replyTo":"","text":"The same problem the housing market has- a lack of balanced regulation. Congress doesn’t see the problem because no one is in house lobbying for fair oversight in the domestic shipping market right now unfortunately. "}

788398

{"replyTo":"","text":"One more stupefying question is tarping and untarping. Ok if they pay you 15-20 dollars? Please help ","replyToPid":0}

655706

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658864 发表于 2019-11-12 23:49:17 My boss told me today he asked 3$/ mile today for a load and the broker started laughing... he’s a really polite guy and just told him thank you very much and called another broker...

","text":"Oh the brokers a Richard-heads on the phone sometimes. We dispatch our own loads and I hear some nasty stuff sometimes. They also sometimes don’t understand some aspects of what we have to go through-for example speed limit in Cali for truckers is 55. And they don’t think of that when they want you to fly there faster than physically possible ","replyToPid":249709}

658864

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497499 发表于 2019-11-13 01:52:30 The same problem the housing market has- a lack of balanced regulation. Congress doesn’t see the problem because no one is in house lobbying for fair oversight in the domestic shipping market right now unfortunately.

","text":"Isn’t there a guy who said he’ll make sure there will be no more regulations? .... ","replyToPid":249810}

446755

{"replyTo":"","text":"what if all of us independents/small fleets unsubscribed from DAT-Truckstop load matching sites??!!!  I bet their recommend broker to carrier rates would sky rocket....","replyToPid":0}

446755

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788398 发表于 2019-11-13 08:59:32 One more stupefying question is tarping and untarping. Ok if they pay you 15-20 dollars? Please help

","text":"hell no, it's not OK. why would I do heavy labor for $10/hr.?? last time I tarp3d for $50 bucks was in the early  2000s. After 2009 done max a dozen tarp jobs. starting at $300 a load. even negotiated $600 for an oversized pipe load one time..","replyToPid":250000}