@loaders Agreed, wholeheartedly agreed. That's just the way I do it. Is it the norm, or industry standard? Not by a long shot. That's also why I don't broker too many loads
In the real world carriers are their own worst enemies. Maybe carriers should follow the old adage "If it sounds too good to be true, then it probably is", and ask themselves one simple question when they get offered loads ... "How did Fly-by-Night Logistics, a one-man, basement broker, manage to get the KFC contract from Pepsico?"
Granted, that makes it incredibly difficult for start-up operations to get into business, but truthfully, how many more brokers does this industry really need? The same is true of carriers. How many more carriers are really needed?
Just follow the industry news. Established carriers are buying up small carriers left right, and center. Established brokers are buying small brokers just as much.
In either case, new carriers or new brokers, nothing new, or innovative is being added to the industry as a whole. However, on the carrier side that just might change as power unit technology develops over the next few years. Perhaps someone with very deep pockets mau get into an all electric truck fleet and take over the short-haul market in certain areas ... who knows.
However, I digress ... for someone to jump into the brokerage game, even if they start out as a basement dweller, they have to have a good reputation in the industry, and they have to have their own customer base. Otherwise they are just pilfering loads from LoadLink and reselling them.
Established, large brokerage firms probably are the ones that need to be blamed for the proliferation of the double brokerage industry. Were they just a tad more careful of who they are dealing with and giving their loads to, there wouldn't likely be a big double brokerage issue, if there even was one at all. Maybe, just maybe, they should actually check out the "carriers" (read double brokers here) that they hire instead of just relying on the paperwork they get sent. Frankly, if they're not doing their own due diligence, then they really have no place to complain about double brokers ... somebody has to be giving them freight, right? The double brokers certainly are not getting it on their own.
Lastly, places like Inside Transport make an excellent resource for rooting out the nefarious double brokers. Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, should take note of those accused,
and vetted, to be double brokers. They should end up on EVERYONE's do not use list.
WOW, that was long ... somebody needs to find me something to do ... LOL