Carriers brokering freight

[loaders]

It seems to happen almost daily while I read the posts on Inside Transport, one of our existing carrier partners being called out for slow payment of an invoice on a load they brokered to another carrier. I cannot speak for the other freight brokers, but I can’t help but wonder if this carrier is brokering the freight we give him? Perhaps it is a load belonging to one of their own customers, I have no way of knowing, but repeated posts and negative comments about slow payments gives me a bad feeling and arouses my suspicion. I haven’t kept track and it is in no way a scientific study, but it seems to be evenly spread between brokers and carriers being reported on IT for tardy payments. It reinforces our procedures to check customs paperwork and delivering B/L to ensure the party we gave the load to is indeed the party that hauled the freight.

 

[jackhole]

If you have to worry about another Carrier brokering your freight then you should likely not be giving them a load in the first place.

 

[Gord M]

Here is the business model for many Brampton Trucking Companies, they hire lots of first year dispatchers and take as many loads off the link as they can. They make sure their (10 or 20) drivers get the best destinations then they double broker the rest of the loads............the worst part is they don't see anything wrong with being a day or two late with your double brokered load.........and these morons think they are transportation experts.

 

[Henry]

I broker freight but its from my direct customers. I also run between 8 to 10 owner operators so i hand off any freight i can't handle. The carrier bills me then i pay them based on our agreement. It should be that easy. Everyone needs to read what we sign. The agreements are contracts. I recently had a carrier try to hold me hostage . He waited of course to pick up the shipment before he demanded payment. Some real nice people in the industry.

 

[Gord M]

I broker freight but its from my direct customers. I also run between 8 to 10 owner operators so i hand off any freight i can't handle. The carrier bills me then i pay them based on our agreement. It should be that easy. Everyone needs to read what we sign. The agreements are contracts. I recently had a carrier try to hold me hostage . He waited of course to pick up the shipment before he demanded payment. Some real nice people in the industry.

Henry, when I was 17 back in the 70's I could go to any Hudson Bay or Simpsons store and pay for any goods by personal check, i'd just give the clerk a check and walk out with the goods because back then to write a bad check was wrong and no one i knew ever did that because it would have been ridiculously embarrassing to have your bank call and tell you you didn't have funds in the account to cover the check. My parents would have killed me if I bounced a check then thrown me out of the house for being a fraud. Too many people in the Brampton Trucking business don't care what is right or wrong because the people that judge them are thousands of miles away. They don't care what you and I think, they were brought up differently where the parents worship their children and cover for them..............that didn't happen in my house.