If truck covered take off LINK

Good morning,

2 things after reading several of the posts below:

Funny, some carriers will put 'test' or 'do not call'. We call anyway and oddly enough 10% of the time they have a truck there for us!

Notes in a posting - you can NOT put an alternate phone number in there. It's frowned upon for good reason. Imaging I have 4 broker operations and only 1 link account, just put the phone number in the posting of the company I want you to call... You never know who you're dealing with if calling this alternate phone number, imagine a criminal got a hold of a carrier link login and password, got a bunch of loads due to this alternate phone posting, then they disappear with your load! EEK!

Keep well,
Mike
 
SAMMY said:
Great comments but we must remember how Link is set up which creates the issue of carriers posting their truck but no truck actually available.

On the Link as a broker, you can go search for carriers in any given lane without posting a load.

Whereas if a carrier wants to search available loads in any lane they have post their truck. So if a carrier has a possible load from say Winnipeg, MT to some place in VA, that carrier may post their truck in VA back MB to see possible return loads.

I respect that carriers have to post a truck to search loads but key is if you have no truck, just put "TEST" or " Do not call" or Avail Tuesdays or Mon/ Thurs or something in comments so we can move on.

Biggest complaint I hear from carriers about broker postings is brokers often don't post the actual pick-up and deliver locations. Brokers will often post to nearest city. Reason they do is they get more response than posting a little town 50 minutes from nearest city. Jury is still out on this issue as I have had loads posted from small town BC to small town SK and I have had carriers call and ask if anyone has called on the load and I have said no. The carrier suggests I change to nearest city to get a better response.

That is my two cents on this topic.
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Having experienced this when I was *in training* the reason a broker posts it to a nearby town/city is because they are stealing the post off the DAT or the LINK and are trying to sell it themselves, so they don't want to look like they are double brokering...
 
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Valerie K said:
Having experienced this when I was *in training* the reason a broker posts it to a nearby town/city is because they are stealing the post off the DAT or the LINK and are trying to sell it themselves, so they don't want to look like they are double brokering...
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More and more of it everyday. Just like the Fastenal load being posted out of Indy for tomorrow. 16 different brokers posting it.
 
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Or you are the poor sucker that has a load in Indy going to the GTA, that isn't the Fastenal load and can't get it moved so you post a different receiving/shipping location. I don't tend to have an issue with the cross-border, but my US domestic freight sometimes I have 6 different mills in the same city shipping similar product so it does make it difficult even though I legitimately have the loads to move. A great example is Chicago and surrounding where I am fighting companies like Coyote and PLS who have every lane posted 16 times...
 
Do we need to start a new thread called "If load covered take off LINK"?

I guess the long and short if it is we all have reasons for a posting to remain up. If you see the same name day in and day out with a posting then maybe that is one of the phantom loads or trucks. Maybe it's a carrier that runs the same lane for LTL. Maybe it's a broker with multiple loads moving any day of the week.

Maybe we're beating a dead horse here.
 
A little point that I would like to add to this dicussion with regards to having a truck posted and, when called, we say that it is covered. Sometimes, the broker searching for a truck is not known to us or, we do know them and they take too long to pay. They may even be on our DNU list. Not wanting to be impolite, we will say that the truck is covered. This has nothing to do with dispatch so why make bad blood with them. Just say that the truck is covered.
I would also like to add that sometimes we will get 3, 4, 5, and even 6 times, calls from the same company for the same truck. Now that's a waste of time...
 
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How about the DAT board? A load pops up at 4pm and we call it. The poor guy on the phone says that he posted it at 8am and booked a truck at 8.30 and took it off and we are the 5th caller for it. Why are we seeing it 8 hours later?
 
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I might be a culprit of posting, I like to put a couple different lanes in to see what's out there. What gets me is the Brokers who post one load but show at least six different pick up and delivery locations, when you call the broker he has to check see if he has the load (WTF) if you don't have it sewed up don't post it. I've done this long enough I can pretty well look at the board and know that the five or six or more loads that are posted by five or more brokers are indeed one load that everybody trying to make the most off the TOP. Just my two cents.
 
martinetav said:
I would also like to add that sometimes we will get 3, 4, 5, and even 6 times, calls from the same company for the same truck. Now that's a waste of time...
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we've had this happen and have not found a way to stop it, by the time the carrier is clicked as called sometimes we have called him twice. there is no real way to avoid double or triple calling the same people by accident. Especially if you work in an office that has more than one open space it's hard for everyone to know what the other group is doing.
 
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Would someone mind giving me the reasons why 80% of Canadian Carriers do not indicate type of equipment they have is a particular area / This would limit the number of calls received by brokers or carriers and save time for everyone / I use the DAT and all US Carriers indicate length of equipment (ie: 48 or 53 footer) / Isn't there a check mark on the Canadian Link to indicate this / If not, can't you at least put it in the comments !!!!!!
I always indicate in the Comments section my requirements but half of them don't read them / If I am looking for a flatbed don't call me if you have a stepdeck / You're wasting your time and mine

Please take the time to properly do your post /
 
Most of my notes in the comments on the link are not properly translated to the DAT, mind you I am posting freight but the same premise. The American carriers can't see my notes on length of shipment ext etc. I think it's an issue with the transferring of info between the 2 boards and not necessarily the carriers posting. There is no check box for length of equipment, so again not the carriers fault...
 
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