Credit App in order to quote?

[gw2020]

Has any one been requested to fill out credit app before receiving quotes from a company?

Had this happen today for first time.

 

[chica123]

I could see this as a potential scenario. As a carrier, you could get dozens of calls a day asking for quotes on various lanes. If you are serious about doing business with the carrier, they might like some sort of goodwill on your part to make sure they are not investing the time to quote for no reason. Quoting lanes for companies you do not regularly do business with often leads to nothing and a carrier might not be willing to just disclose their rates to you with no potential business coming their way. Just a thought.

 

[SCLBC]

Quoting lanes for companies you do not regularly do business with often leads to nothing and a carrier might not be willing to just disclose their rates to you with no potential business coming their way. Just a thought.

THIS! I'm guessing this is a way to deter all the "tire kickers" if anything.

 

[loaders]

Or, it just could be the rating person was having a real busy day and said...”screw it”, if someone wants me to quote them they must complete a credit application....that’ll show em! A carrier’s rate from say, the GTA to Chicago, isn’t the same as the combination to Fort Knox. Nor is it some secret, proprietary recipe for an exotic new fuel source. What is it....$100 more or less than pretty much everybody else’s? Regardless if you are a broker, a carrier or a supplier of any good or service, if someone asks you to quote, you should be thankful and look at it as a potential for new business. Having said that, if lazy broker Joe Schmoe calls almost everyday asking for rates and yet you never see a stick of freight out of him, by all means ask him to complete a credit app or better yet, bugger off!

 

[BPOVFB]

@loaders - exactly - nothing new under the sun in this game, carriers 8/10 times know the freight you're quoting - who else has called and what it normally pays. Of course you should look at it as a new opportunity, but you have to consider the scope of the quote - if it's an RFP for a multinational/project freight and you have no/low-credit/not an established name in the space you are quoting.. don't be surprised when folks don't want to put the time in. Now once again, at company discretion and not saying this is always the case because 9/10 times you are thankful for the opportunity and consideration as a business partner. Just my 2 cents from a different market space.