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In the past month EVERY single spot quote has asked for a tracing link for my truck - what is happening to the world
Tracing / Tracking Link
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Where to start.. lies lies and more lies.. desperate times, we're seeing crazy things happening. From my truck is empty when it's not to my truck is 30 miles away when it's 300 miles. It takes the guess work out of the equation. We're all working hard to keep the business we have as our customers are experiencing the constant calls from brokers/carriers that will to work for below operational costs. Brokers don't want to be caught in a situation as a result of a carriers lie that may jeopardize their business.
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I'd much rather send them the link to the ELD, than field the 14 calls a day from someone who has no idea what they're talking about.
Hi can you tell me where the truck is now that's picking up my load in Cincinnati, OH?
Yes, he's just coming through Albuquerque, NM should be there any minute.
Okay, thanks....
Hi can you tell me where the truck is now that's picking up my load in Cincinnati, OH?
Yes, he's just coming through Albuquerque, NM should be there any minute.
Okay, thanks....
The worst is when you provide a tracking link, and still get calls for updates. And yes this happens a lot
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Our one driver is still getting automated update tracking calls 3 days after he delivered..
I feel if you use carriers you can trust you can skip this tracking nonsense altogether, but that's just like, my opinion or whatever.
I feel if you use carriers you can trust you can skip this tracking nonsense altogether, but that's just like, my opinion or whatever.
I would never give my drivers info to anybody. If someone wants an update call dispatch. Don't need my driver being bothered while sleeping or driving.
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it's a tracking link we send - they track the truck as long as it is on the load
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We ask for tracking links on every perishable and time critical load, even from long term trusted carriers. For trusted carriers it eliminates the need for check calls, especially when the load has an early morning delivery and different time zones. You never know if someone will answer the phone at 5 AM.
In small companies, the owner is also the dispatch and they may have been up all night dealing with a breakdown then sleep through the location update phone call.
For new carriers the tracking link is reassurance that the carrier is legitimate plus eliminates the check call.
For those of us using MacroPoint, allegedly the locations can be spoofed
In small companies, the owner is also the dispatch and they may have been up all night dealing with a breakdown then sleep through the location update phone call.
For new carriers the tracking link is reassurance that the carrier is legitimate plus eliminates the check call.
For those of us using MacroPoint, allegedly the locations can be spoofed
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I would give your reply 12 likes if I could. How many clients have been lost because of BS from carriers?
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I can count maybe 8 carriers get the " would deliver if the world was ending and no tracing needed" classification
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I have no direct experience of this but "reddit" on freight broker forum
Copy and past from a comment:
Macropoint uses the GPS sensor and cell tower triangulation of the drivers phone. You can spoof the GPS location with apps
Fake GPS location - Apps on Google Play
Teleport your phone to any place in the world with one click!
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THIS IS BRILLIANT - long weekend 'work' lolI have no direct experience of this but "reddit" on freight broker forum
Copy and past from a comment:
Macropoint uses the GPS sensor and cell tower triangulation of the drivers phone. You can spoof the GPS location with apps
Fake GPS location - Apps on Google Play
Teleport your phone to any place in the world with one click!play.google.com
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I have no direct experience of this but "reddit" on freight broker forum
Copy and past from a comment:
Macropoint uses the GPS sensor and cell tower triangulation of the drivers phone. You can spoof the GPS location with apps
Fake GPS location - Apps on Google Play
Teleport your phone to any place in the world with one click!
Im sure it's possible but what legitimate carrier is going to take the time to do this, especially drivers, most can barely get on Macropoint let alone spoof their location. If you have suspicions of your carriers doing this then you should really look at your vetting process and the carriers you are choosing to move your freight because any motor carrier with a drop of integrity won't go to these lengths to misguide you.
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Totally agree, the comment I posted from the fright brokers forum is mostly US brokers operating in the domestic US market. The challenge is when we post domestic US moves on the DAT board and look at who is calling by using SMS or carrier 411, nine out of ten calls are from double brokers or very suspicious companies.
We spend just as much time weeding out the bad actors as we do managing freight when we developing new markets in the US since we don't have 10,000 trusted carriers in our database that the big 3 letter brokers claim to have.
The bad actors can get away with this because many companies, this includes brokers and carriers, do not vet carriers properly. 10 years ago double brokering was not common and double brokering when the broker has no intention of paying the carrier that did the load was rare, we might have experienced this every second year. Montreal Express Transport aka MET gave me a very hard lesson on the pirates in trucking.
DAT, LoadLink, RCMP, FBI, local police ... do nothing about this as they don't understand trucking and slough it off as a civil matter and not organized criminal fraud.