***Be Cautious***We gave them two loads, to find out in the end both were double brokered. They lied when asked if the loads were double brokered, when told we had one carrier provide proof they stated "one had to be covered on a partner carrier that we work with all the time as our truck broke down"...Typical. The carrier said it was the first load he ever hauled. We held payments and demanded the delivering carriers be paid we were copied on the payment notification.
Tony Gill Transport (TG Transport) - MC #75103
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That is the proper way to handle a case of double brokering. Hold onto the payment until it can be determined who really hauled the freight. Unfortunately in most cases, you don’t find out that your load has been double brokered until the actual carrier comes calling looking to be paid for his work. Or worse, your customer calls you wanting to know why this angry trucking company is threatening them with legal action for non payment.
We were lucky the first carrier was very nervous about getting paid. He did contact our client and was directed to us, we then reached out to the client and advised that we would handle form here not to worry any further...Not all work out this way you are correct @loaders
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Booked two shipments with them (probably double brokering them). They cancelled on us twice. 1st was cancelled because shipment wasn't ready until Friday instead of Wednesday as planned apparently. 2nd cancellation was due to shipment being "moved by the shipper" to the Albany NY area instead of near Bronx NY...…..anyways.
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How do we handle the double brokers here nowadays? We hold onto the money until we can get their ELD for that load from beginning until the end. Those they cannot prove we do not pay and sit until the real carrier comes by. Oh, and if they double brokered and confirm this fact, we pay the real carrier what they should have received. This show to the real carrier what was the real deal and that we are not into this to gain from the situation but rather show how bad these actors are for the industry. Weed them out one by one!
Definitely agree with withholding payment to the double broker.
I am a massive stickler though for only paying the real carrier what we paid the double broker, not a penny more.
We've haven't had one recently, but last year we had a double brokered load. Gave it to a carrier who was going out of business (didn't know at the time) and they double brokered it for double the rate to a carrier. They had no intentions of paying so rate was irrelevant to them.
Real carrier tried to extort us into paying $4000 for ON to PA... needless to say we refused. They tried calling both shipper/receiver but we were ahead of them. 6 months later, they finally accepted the reasonable rate of $1500.