Trucking is no longer a priority to America no matter what goes on as long as their a human who wants to come to America and has a ounce of common sense will recieve a cdl trucking is no longer an Anerican job its a who can do it job....American born truckers are no longer A PRIORITY. OUR MILITARY MEN AND WOMEN ARE NOT A PRIORITY, GOVERNMENT DON'T GIVE A SHIT.....GET OUT WHY YOU CAN.
@@Gill22 The kinda THE point. It's theft. This is HUGE. Also, the trucking community are intrinsically distracted from reality by the impressive enormity of big beautiful powerful trucks and enjoying beautiful travel. So we say or do very little to protect ourselves and careers. If we were pulling loads with Toyota Pruises, Lol, we'd be bored, park, and find time to fight for our rights. For example; When millions of workers were picking fruit, it was easy to organize and form a Union. Easy, stop picking apples and organize. But to stop driving the Pete or KW?...not happening anytime soon. Got people to impress with the unmuffled Jake brake, lol! My biggest disappointment overall is the fact that I believe the problem is watered down terribly. I'm sure this is not a transparency issue, but a contract Law violation. Furthermore, blacklisting drivers from their livelihood isn't simply mean, but retaliation for exercising your civil/workers rights!! I think we need more attorneys on this and less engine braking foolishness. You have families to support for crying out loud!!
A fuel surcharge is just a business idea to itemize what you're getting from the rate. The rate is what matters not a fuel surcharge That's just a component of the rate. What companies have done is try to make it harder and harder to understand what you're making. You can also express a rate by the mile into a rate by the hour for on and off duty services that you do for the customer. The way business is done only benefits those that give the business out.
I used to work as a shipper dispatcher, but now I’m a truck driver. I’ve seen firsthand how brokers exploit carriers. For example, if there’s a delay of over two hours, we pay $150 per hour. If the delay extends to the next day, we pay the broker double. For a 200-mile load, I would pay the broker $900, but they would sell it to the carrier for $550 or $600. It’s clear that brokers are squeezing carriers unfairly.
These legal tricks and traps are in play across the board in all industries. Especially real estate/ housing and other governmental agencies. We need someone like you to look in other areas as well. Thanks for your trucking and brokerage insight.
Thank you brother and yes definitely! There’s so many legal loopholes that the bigger players (both carriers and brokers) will take advantage of. Most people in the industry never find out because it all happens behind closed doors.
I knew a broker who paid me anywhere from $2.70 to $3.25 a mile depending on where the load was going and always under 12k pounds. I’d have work lined up with him a week prior. Well now in 2024 he got underbid by another broker who’s pays the same loads under $2.00 a mile. I told him he was too cheap and he said “thats the market”
Great information and exactly right. I started my trucking business in 2021 and was bankrupt by 2022 because I had no " connections" with brokers...or experience ..was absolutely despicable. I'm trying again in 2025. Thanks for the new information 👍🏾
When owner operator do a cheap load because they have to eat they actually giving they right away, broker are taking half of the load price, and we doing the hard work, I was outwork for a month an half and didn’t die thanks God, if the load is not paying you good just don’t do it. Carriers that do cheap load either are not going to last long or will have no money to fix their truck when required.
I agree but the difference is, the carriers that book "cheap freight" will eventually have to shutdown their company and leave the market. On the other hand, brokers taking massive cuts and engaging in predatory practices will only make them richer and grow bigger. That's why I think the broker issue is more important to talk about.
@@Gill22you right 100% my brother 🙌🏼 if we all open our eyes, there’s money out there for hardworking drivers is just not letting brokers(criminals) get away with the result 💲of our sacrifice. Because like the military we go out and we don’t know if we coming back to our family.
Trump isnt doing a thing for you guys lol. He's a con man. He doesnt care about working people, and TRUCKERS no less! He got on stage and TOLD you he cares about you but he did nothing for any of you working people his first 4 years and you allowed yourselves to be manipulated again now. Trump cares about Trump. He cares about millionaires and billionaires. He's not doing anything for trucking. Stop deluding yourselves!
The problem is people want deregulation, no rules, the Wile West like the old days, and in the next breath they are complaining that the govt isnt stepping in and doing anything! They want Capitalism and the "free market" and then when something doesnt go their way, they are upset at the govt for "not doing something!" This is how a Capitalistic society works guys. People are allowed to charge anything they like. It's up to you to judge what theyre offering and accept or deny it. If you want the govt to step in and regulate what brokers can charge, dont be offended when brokers unite and regulate how much TRUCKERS can make! See how that works??
I am subscribed here as I find it interesting to understand how it works in the US. I work as a freight forwarder in France but I always strive to offer to the customers & carriers what they need. to the carriers: I ask them what price they can offer on this type of transport and I do my best to remain within that range, I do not like to lower their price to the customers: I try to find the best solution at the budget they have. If they found cheaper with someone else, so be it. Margin : most of the type 5-15% but overall the transports here are from 100 - 1000€ and for transports of more than 2000-3000 or even 4000€, the margin is usually from 2-8%. I wouldn't mind if a carrier contacts directly the customer, they can. However most of the demands here are spot based so not always interesting for the carriers. It can depend on the situation. Looking forward for the next videos!
A few years ago I was taking product out of a factory and delivering it to a DC 30 miles down the road. Running 4-5 loads a day the factory had me loaded within 15 minutes every time but the DC had appointment times and I waited for several hours one time to get unloaded. The next round the same DC that made me wait forever the previous time wanted to charge me for being late for my appointment.
Get rid of the waver and put a 10% cap on the shit and add in an automatic hold time pay for anything over 1 hour!! 3 things that would make trucking exponentially better!!!! Cause if the brokers still want to make that grand off the load their asses will make the loads worth it for the driver’s!!! I get paid if I have to sit more then 45 minutes at shipping or receiving but I don’t work with brokers either so there’s that. But that’s what my boss does so we don’t get screwed around as much. But our work is also a lot more limited.
You could try, but it’s a whole different skill set required for that position with its own unique challenges. Most truckers could not make that transition and don’t want to make that transition.
hmmmm… for the last few years ppl have been saying how it’ll get better if Trump wins.. now that Trump is back .. the trucking industry should be booming ! Good luck to that ! LOL
Trump isnt going to change anything lol. Ignorant people in America turned him into a Jesus like figure who they think is going to walk into office and wave his magic wand and fix every problem in the country. He doesnt care about truckers, the military, or working people. He just TELLS people he does to get their support. Remember guys, Trump was already in there 4 years. How many of these issues did he address?? Think hard. Truck parking, double brokering, broker transparency?? Anything at all? NOTHING! So don't fool yourselves.
The basics of it is the industry simply cares about it's bottom line and never the drivers! I am so glad I walked away forever! This industry is INSANE! Personally, I hope it all goes belly up and then they start fresh from scratch and no more B.S.! SCREW the mega corporates, and make it all driver run! I can say that freely now that I am retired!!! I would rather the entire industry completely implode and shut the heck down! Then when the aftershocks are felt worldwide, THEN go back and rebuild the entire thing from the ground up! I really do feel that the way it is now, its LOST! They have utterly destroyed the transportation industry with how things are now and as a whole, it will only be a matter of time before it all implodes. Pretty much. I hope it does so that we can all start over fresh from scratch.
Why use a broker if you’re a shipper? I understand if you’re a carrier, but in today’s age of technology it’s far too easy to connect shippers with services. It’s like paying Door Dash to deliver a pizza from dominos. Just call Dominos. Cut out the leaching middleman saving you money while simultaneously paying the company doing the actual work more than they would make otherwise. I can appreciate the curation provided by brokers to carriers, but the commission needs a hard cap. Brokerage is meant to help facilitate logistics not suck the trucking industry dry.
My ex is a broker in Nashville Tn. I can tell you she lives VERY well. I remember seeing 25-30% easily. However that being said if nobody took it the rates would go up!
Someone mentioned it,if the broker is supposed to be an agent for one party, they allowed to take a sm😢percentage,not third or more which all the more reason that the drivers should file a federal complaint.
Drivers need to complain to federal authorities,if enough drivers file a complaint with the feds will have to address the complaint. The drivers can also form a union and then file a complaint as a union????
Well they need to turn the tables cause no trucker wants to be driving a bunch of miles weekly for low pay. It's a disgrace trying to short change hardworking drivers for the greedy.
Brokers should also realize that the trucking industry will suffer greatly if enough drivers leave the profession and if on one replace the driver that left.
I personally believe that the entire trucking industry needs to do completely away with all brokers, and go back to dealing one-on-one with the distributors, and both sides being totally honest and up front with each other throughout, and then, the entire trucking industry both can and will make a truly magnificent and positive comeback!
So is dispatching still a viable business for the future? At least dispatching is less of a middle man and more of a service to get things done for truckers.
I run a dispatching company and I have a course as well. I’m also very transparent with how much we make. It’s definitely not easy and you’re competing with many “illegal dispatchers” for work. However, you CAN still build it into a viable business tbh. Again, I have some bias and I recognize that.
Behind every industry that is seeing people go broke in the 1000's e.g. Construction, Trucking, etc....there is always a leach that is sucking the industry dry. The new way of making money is to not do anything worthwhile but to "value add" ... yea right.
So $750k has been the minimum liability for decades and $100k doesn’t really cover the cargo these days. I seriously doubt anything is going to change regarding the broker transparency clause. In the end I think you’ll see a lot less small carriers starting or continuing business. When they eventually increase the insurance minimums that’ll put the vast majority of small carriers out of business. Even without the minimums increasing, just year to year premium increases are too much to bear for a lot of small companies.
I a foreigner and government help me buy truck I tell all my poor friends to com to us and get one would goverment benifits. I haul cheap because I no pay taxes. I have my own rules in trucking. Dot man give me ticket. I no pay em. I take 10 hr break on shoulder of interstate hw. And run high beams all the time at night
We don’t need daddy government doing anything. Learn to run a business. Keep the government out of our business. Everything the government gets in they F. It up. this doesn’t end well. Have a little foresight.
You do realize the government dictates the rules every business can play by right? If one party feels like the rules for another party are eggregiously advantageous... why wouldn't you speak up and advocate for yourself? You can work hard on your own business AND push for changes to be made at the federal level.
@ You realize you aren’t thinking like a business. You sign the contract, you agree to the rate. You only can blame yourself. Go put in the work to get the direct customers. The rule of full disclosure has always been a law. You can request the info anytime after hauling the load. What will happen is you will be required to show full transparency of your profit. The shipper will see your numbers and start offering less money. It’s a race to the bottom. Businesses need to learn how to negotiate. If you can’t, go back to driving for businesses that can. This is business. Everyone doesn’t get a trophy. No one is guaranteed to succeed. The sooner these guys that can’t operate a profitable business are gone the sooner the ones that can will drive rates up. It’s the low hanging fruit,hanging on, that’s driving rates into the ground.
@@greghess6077ok stop requiring me to have insurance and a mc/dot number to haul loads because those are all government requirements and I don’t need them to haul your load.
@@greghess6077ok so why do you want me as a carrier to comply with harsh government regulations to be able to haul your loads? But you don’t want to have any government regulation? You won’t hire my carrier unless I have a mc/dot with high safety score and have insurance with the right amounts for cargo auto and liability. Hire me with no mc/dot I’ll get your load there. Let’s keep the government out of this buddy
@@SMD-i3v I am a carrier. I have to follow those rules as well. I can see rules for safety of us and the public. I also do not want the government restricting or regulating us to death as carriers. If it’s an open and free market we have way more options to conduct business. Carriers have an advantage they just don’t feel like they do. Brokers are our customers. If you can get direct shippers they are your customers. Fact is brokers are wanted by most shippers so they have one point of contact to deal with. Learn to negotiate with brokers. I’ve had one of my best years this year. Load boards are bottom of the barrel freight. Cultivate relationships with brokers and shippers. Do the hard work of running the business. Almost anyone can drive. Act like a businessman not a driver. You’ll be surprised at the results.
Being blessed to living a good long life, I have also learned many sad unwritten facts of life. One being "conspiracy theory or thinking". Conspiracy theory belief is very misunderstood. We often confuse "hyperbolic, paranoid thinking" with actual conspiracy thinking. No, conspiracies are what makes the world go round. And we must take very little in life for face value. This is a fact of life.
Why does it matter seeing what the shipper paid if you're not going to be able to do anything about it anyways? Like why fight to see it only so you can get pissed off and be mad that you're getting ripped off. In my opinion I would stick it to these companies and not haul for them. Get into another career. It's always going to be like this until people decide to stand up one day.
Actually, its more about turning the industry over to a third world workforce. Sure brokers should be regulated in the amount of rape on the rates, so there is that. Billions in costs spread out across the Country right down to the consumers not commensurate of the services they preform. Regulation is needed. Over saturate the amount of trucks, and fill those seats with a third world workforce, and you got where we are at. Rates staying low regardless of any economy swings. 30yrs out here and my EYES prove this, its no opinion.
Any industry where there’s a middleman who is dictating the market… there will be no harmony. Remove the middleman and create an open market between shippers and carriers (Amazon for the shipping of goods).
So you're one of those dispatching agents or companies and your ratting out Brokers but to be honest dispatching agencies and companies are not legit because you don't have insurance like Brokers do
The FMCSA just released clarification on what differentiates a truck dispatcher from a freight broker. Both are legitimate businesses, my problem is with specific practices. (Btw we do have a brokerage authority and insurance)
I would really like to see how the new administration deals with this. I’ve heard a lot of promises made and I’m hoping they pull through… but I’ll be objective 🤔
What has this thing about to die. Government substaties to these carriers. They are in the green for years. While the owner op is living and operating in the in the red. Then brokers want to lock you in at some crazy rate. While you are fighting with insurance, fuel, over head, and your life's bills. Time away from mandatory things. Don't haul cheap freight. I don't support bottom feeders. They want rookies...inexperienced people. Backhand rate pullers 🙊🙉🙈... let your nuts drop
Trucking is dead. Have you heard what I said after 40 years of driving I quit the industry because of the BS that lobulus have pushed. It changed the dynamics of the industry with these deaf systems, logbook nonsense, and politicians who got lobby by the lobbyist who never drove trucks before and it has turned the industry upside down and I see another five if we even make a five years, you won’t have no more truck industry in America I don’t know what it’s gonna look like I plan to abandon ship mean, I plan on leaving the country so when it goes to hell in the handbasket cause it’s on its way I will be nowhere around the head of screens and hollers of those who can’t get what they need to survive like food
Broker = micro managing, broker is the variable in the equation that cant be figured out. Trucker is the low man , brokers need to limit fee to 8percent maximum. Or get rid of all brokers and let shippers contact carriers themselves . Cut the middleman out and the govt overeach out of the pocket of truckers.
Theres broker that will work with you with 3 to 6 months of exp not saying hes lying but yes youll definitely have more opportunities with 2 years but youll still get loads from brokers with 3 months just make a little harder
5:13 You seriously didn't even mention Landstar!! Seriously 6:09 Where are you booking broker freight without 1,000,000 in insurance, probably adding an additional insured?? 7:15 Where are you getting that number?? From the internet?? 9:08 Yet another cry about how much someone else is making, rather than not waiting on freight that makes you money, You realize once you regulate / force your way into their business, it's just a matter of time until someone is doing the same with YOUR business, and telling YOU how much is FAIR for you to earn!! 10:20 Seriously, how long have you been using computers, no lost documents, LoL 10:40 So why exactly do you think you have that "Right", do you get to examine the restaurants books when you go out for dinner?? Are YOU going to open YOUR books for the shipper to look at?? 11:05 Let the brokers requiring that, "FAX" the freight from one place to another, You do realize brokers need YOU more than You need THEM, Right!! When push comes to shove the guy with a truck will move more freight than a guy with a fax machine. 12:48 TRUTH!!!
That analogy doesn’t make any sense because trucking and restaurants operate completely differently. In the trucking industry, 49 CFR § 371.3 actually gives truckers the legal right to see how much brokers are making from shippers. Why? Because truckers aren’t just customers-they’re service providers directly generating the revenue brokers collect. When you haul a load, you’re entitled to know how the money is being split, especially in a federally regulated industry where transparency is required to prevent abuse. Asking for broker transparency is about fairness, not curiosity. You wouldn’t compare that to asking a restaurant owner for their books because diners aren’t part of the restaurant’s supply chain-they just pay a set price and leave. Apples and oranges.
@Gill22 Pretty soon, all the truck driving employees are gonna lose their jobs because The industry is going to be fully automated at a large scale with self driving trucks.
@@Gill22 LoL, go on believing that, see if you last 30+ years in the buisness, I do not miss anything except the people I used to meet and the places I traveled. Good Luck it's Your industry to do with as you please. GodSpeed
@@jasonzapata8924 LoL You're so funny, Do trains drive themselves? They're actually on tracks, not pavement with failing guide lines marking their paths. Good Luck
This guy just making trucking sound bad so you can sign up for his class lol market is getting better just don’t run empty miles utilize every load board you can and you will be alright Uber freight takes new authority so does coyote ypu just gotta look and if you have a hard time find a company to dispatch you for 1 year and then you will be alright 👍
Personally, I would love to tell you The Truth from The Holy Bible about what is going on. However, I politely encourage you to read it for yourselves. By The Way, check out Truthunedited and Stephan Darby's sermons to get a deeper understanding for The Life. May YAH bless you, your families, and HALLELUYAH!
Make your voice heard about broker transparency here: www.regulations.gov/document/FMCSA-2023-0257-0001
(Remember, it expires Jan 25)
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How do we see all the public comments?
Sounds like your industry needs a national treasure… like Luigi.
Lmfaooo I mean...
Faaaaaaacts
Trucking is no longer a priority to America no matter what goes on as long as their a human who wants to come to America and has a ounce of common sense will recieve a cdl trucking is no longer an Anerican job its a who can do it job....American born truckers are no longer
A PRIORITY. OUR MILITARY MEN AND WOMEN ARE NOT A PRIORITY, GOVERNMENT DON'T GIVE A SHIT.....GET OUT WHY YOU CAN.
Agreed
There is a large percentage of brokers that do not pass on the fuel surcharge that the shippers are paying for the carrier.
This is another great point I should've mentioned!
Bingo
@@Gill22 The kinda THE point. It's theft. This is HUGE.
Also, the trucking community are intrinsically distracted from reality by the impressive enormity of big beautiful powerful trucks and enjoying beautiful travel. So we say or do very little to protect ourselves and careers.
If we were pulling loads with Toyota Pruises, Lol, we'd be bored, park, and find time to fight for our rights.
For example; When millions of workers were picking fruit, it was easy to organize and form a Union. Easy, stop picking apples and organize. But to stop driving the Pete or KW?...not happening anytime soon. Got people to impress with the unmuffled Jake brake, lol!
My biggest disappointment overall is the fact that I believe the problem is watered down terribly. I'm sure this is not a transparency issue, but a contract Law violation. Furthermore, blacklisting drivers from their livelihood isn't simply mean, but retaliation for exercising your civil/workers rights!! I think we need more attorneys on this and less engine braking foolishness. You have families to support for crying out loud!!
That's THE problem. Theft. (Not "non" transparency, but criminal)
A fuel surcharge is just a business idea to itemize what you're getting from the rate. The rate is what matters not a fuel surcharge That's just a component of the rate. What companies have done is try to make it harder and harder to understand what you're making. You can also express a rate by the mile into a rate by the hour for on and off duty services that you do for the customer. The way business is done only benefits those that give the business out.
I used to work as a shipper dispatcher, but now I’m a truck driver. I’ve seen firsthand how brokers exploit carriers. For example, if there’s a delay of over two hours, we pay $150 per hour. If the delay extends to the next day, we pay the broker double. For a 200-mile load, I would pay the broker $900, but they would sell it to the carrier for $550 or $600. It’s clear that brokers are squeezing carriers unfairly.
So you saw it and still decided to be a driver and not a broker?
@ I’m actually become a carrier. I am getting load directly from shipper.
These legal tricks and traps are in play across the board in all industries. Especially real estate/ housing and other governmental agencies. We need someone like you to look in other areas as well. Thanks for your trucking and brokerage insight.
Thank you brother and yes definitely! There’s so many legal loopholes that the bigger players (both carriers and brokers) will take advantage of. Most people in the industry never find out because it all happens behind closed doors.
Aka Middle Men
The govt is at fault period.
Lobbyists
So true, I know this and I am not trucker.
I knew a broker who paid me anywhere from $2.70 to $3.25 a mile depending on where the load was going and always under 12k pounds. I’d have work lined up with him a week prior. Well now in 2024 he got underbid by another broker who’s pays the same loads under $2.00 a mile. I told him he was too cheap and he said “thats the market”
They're keeping a cut
Wow I can’t believe he said that! I would’ve said then screw you, I’ll go with some else who pays better.
Great information and exactly right. I started my trucking business in 2021 and was bankrupt by 2022 because I had no " connections" with brokers...or experience ..was absolutely despicable. I'm trying again in 2025. Thanks for the new information 👍🏾
Working in the industry as a shipper/receiver and always contract with carrier direct as it more cost effective
100%
Carries won’t give us contract lol
When owner operator do a cheap load because they have to eat they actually giving they right away, broker are taking half of the load price, and we doing the hard work, I was outwork for a month an half and didn’t die thanks God, if the load is not paying you good just don’t do it. Carriers that do cheap load either are not going to last long or will have no money to fix their truck when required.
I agree but the difference is, the carriers that book "cheap freight" will eventually have to shutdown their company and leave the market. On the other hand, brokers taking massive cuts and engaging in predatory practices will only make them richer and grow bigger. That's why I think the broker issue is more important to talk about.
@@Gill22you right 100% my brother 🙌🏼 if we all open our eyes, there’s money out there for hardworking drivers is just not letting brokers(criminals) get away with the result 💲of our sacrifice. Because like the military we go out and we don’t know if we coming back to our family.
We need to talk to trump about it.
yeah, good luck with that
Won't work because brokers have their lobbys that can easily have an influence in Washington
😅😅😅
Trump isnt doing a thing for you guys lol. He's a con man. He doesnt care about working people, and TRUCKERS no less! He got on stage and TOLD you he cares about you but he did nothing for any of you working people his first 4 years and you allowed yourselves to be manipulated again now. Trump cares about Trump. He cares about millionaires and billionaires. He's not doing anything for trucking. Stop deluding yourselves!
He didn’t even understand how to get into a garbage truck.
I came in 5/23 and I’m thriving. Making 5k-6k a week in a box truck with no dispatcher and no factoring. Truck is paid off.
That's great, what's the difference between box truck biz and semi truck biz?
Great work brother! That’s the way to go. 🙌🏽
Way to go!
Where do you drive? Local or OTR
@@Raytheking6I don't think we'll ever get any details
Then the broker penalizes you because you're late and tracking the load on your phone that you pay for 🤯
I’ll say it again. Just make it illegal to take more than 10% of load!! That’s it!!!
To much....😊
Yea too much. Do you give 10% away when you sell a house?
Has anyone offered you even 10 percent on someone else labor
No right
So even 5 percent more this era when our back is already broke
The problem is people want deregulation, no rules, the Wile West like the old days, and in the next breath they are complaining that the govt isnt stepping in and doing anything! They want Capitalism and the "free market" and then when something doesnt go their way, they are upset at the govt for "not doing something!" This is how a Capitalistic society works guys. People are allowed to charge anything they like. It's up to you to judge what theyre offering and accept or deny it. If you want the govt to step in and regulate what brokers can charge, dont be offended when brokers unite and regulate how much TRUCKERS can make! See how that works??
Thank you for educating us about our rights and how we can take action to make things better.
Every truck driver and carrier needs to lobby congress for legislation regulating these brokers
100% agree! Need to take action to force some change
This video is going to blow up! Thank you!
the real enemy to truckers are BROKERS & CARB.
Also h2b visa drivers. They’ll work for peanuts fn up rates.
It doesn’t seem like the new cabinet coming into office will change that
This is what happened to the airline industry- deregulation
And while they're at it, make these brokers pay into the Social Security trust fund.
I am subscribed here as I find it interesting to understand how it works in the US. I work as a freight forwarder in France but I always strive to offer to the customers & carriers what they need.
to the carriers: I ask them what price they can offer on this type of transport and I do my best to remain within that range, I do not like to lower their price
to the customers: I try to find the best solution at the budget they have. If they found cheaper with someone else, so be it.
Margin : most of the type 5-15% but overall the transports here are from 100 - 1000€ and for transports of more than 2000-3000 or even 4000€, the margin is usually from 2-8%.
I wouldn't mind if a carrier contacts directly the customer, they can. However most of the demands here are spot based so not always interesting for the carriers. It can depend on the situation.
Looking forward for the next videos!
Government need make changes
A few years ago I was taking product out of a factory and delivering it to a DC 30 miles down the road. Running 4-5 loads a day the factory had me loaded within 15 minutes every time but the DC had appointment times and I waited for several hours one time to get unloaded. The next round the same DC that made me wait forever the previous time wanted to charge me for being late for my appointment.
Thanks for fixing the audio
Get rid of the waver and put a 10% cap on the shit and add in an automatic hold time pay for anything over 1 hour!! 3 things that would make trucking exponentially better!!!! Cause if the brokers still want to make that grand off the load their asses will make the loads worth it for the driver’s!!! I get paid if I have to sit more then 45 minutes at shipping or receiving but I don’t work with brokers either so there’s that. But that’s what my boss does so we don’t get screwed around as much. But our work is also a lot more limited.
Thanks for the video please keep us posted if Fmcsa rules smth in our favor
Ok will do!
It sounds like everyone needs to become broker
You could try, but it’s a whole different skill set required for that position with its own unique challenges. Most truckers could not make that transition and don’t want to make that transition.
Great video with some great information. Time for those of us who have seen it all to stand.
hmmmm… for the last few years ppl have been saying how it’ll get better if Trump wins.. now that Trump is back .. the trucking industry should be booming ! Good luck to that ! LOL
You do know that he wont be in the WH until after Jan 20th, 2025. I can only hope that something drastic is done to fix the transportation industry.
Trump isnt going to change anything lol. Ignorant people in America turned him into a Jesus like figure who they think is going to walk into office and wave his magic wand and fix every problem in the country. He doesnt care about truckers, the military, or working people. He just TELLS people he does to get their support. Remember guys, Trump was already in there 4 years. How many of these issues did he address?? Think hard. Truck parking, double brokering, broker transparency?? Anything at all? NOTHING! So don't fool yourselves.
Politicians should watch this and listen
They’ll listen when we actually start fighting back. Hopefully changes will come from the new administration but who knows.
Here things are changing , there is NO new drivers , many company will close , guess who is going to set the rates . . .
Why would you use a broker? Just go get the business.
You mentioned a link to the FMCSA website. I don’t see it listed as you said it would be listed.
Also I can’t find section 371.5 listed on the CFR website.
Oh shoot my bad! Listing it there now 🙏🏽
6:28 new carriers pay $25,000+ per year in insurance. I heard states like California your first year as a new carrier insurance is around $40,000
this is before you consider double and triple brokering
History shows that greed will always destroy those who treat people as slaves.
They also pocket the allocated fuel allowance earmarked from the shipper added to the load-
yay you fixed the audio @ 9:50
Yeahhh sorry about that! 😭
The basics of it is the industry simply cares about it's bottom line and never the drivers! I am so glad I walked away forever! This industry is INSANE! Personally, I hope it all goes belly up and then they start fresh from scratch and no more B.S.! SCREW the mega corporates, and make it all driver run! I can say that freely now that I am retired!!! I would rather the entire industry completely implode and shut the heck down! Then when the aftershocks are felt worldwide, THEN go back and rebuild the entire thing from the ground up! I really do feel that the way it is now, its LOST! They have utterly destroyed the transportation industry with how things are now and as a whole, it will only be a matter of time before it all implodes. Pretty much. I hope it does so that we can all start over fresh from scratch.
Why use a broker if you’re a shipper? I understand if you’re a carrier, but in today’s age of technology it’s far too easy to connect shippers with services. It’s like paying Door Dash to deliver a pizza from dominos. Just call Dominos. Cut out the leaching middleman saving you money while simultaneously paying the company doing the actual work more than they would make otherwise. I can appreciate the curation provided by brokers to carriers, but the commission needs a hard cap. Brokerage is meant to help facilitate logistics not suck the trucking industry dry.
My ex is a broker in Nashville Tn. I can tell you she lives VERY well. I remember seeing 25-30% easily. However that being said if nobody took it the rates would go up!
Free Luigi and let him send the message to these brokers. Hopefully there is a Mario out there willing to step up.
Someone mentioned it,if the broker is supposed to be an agent for one party, they allowed to take a sm😢percentage,not third or more which all the more reason that the drivers should file a federal complaint.
Drivers need to complain to federal authorities,if enough drivers file a complaint with the feds will have to address the complaint. The drivers can also form a union and then file a complaint as a union????
Well they need to turn the tables cause no trucker wants to be driving a bunch of miles weekly for low pay. It's a disgrace trying to short change hardworking drivers for the greedy.
Brokers should also realize that the trucking industry will suffer greatly if enough drivers leave the profession and if on one replace the driver that left.
I personally believe that the entire trucking industry needs to do completely away with all brokers, and go back to dealing one-on-one with the distributors, and both sides being totally honest and up front with each other throughout, and then, the entire trucking industry both can and will make a truly magnificent and positive comeback!
I use to roll in them rental cars with a trunk full of OZ's
Dropping them thangs off, sometime they were whole keys
Wym??🤨
So is dispatching still a viable business for the future? At least dispatching is less of a middle man and more of a service to get things done for truckers.
I run a dispatching company and I have a course as well. I’m also very transparent with how much we make. It’s definitely not easy and you’re competing with many “illegal dispatchers” for work. However, you CAN still build it into a viable business tbh.
Again, I have some bias and I recognize that.
Brokers are disgusting
Behind every industry that is seeing people go broke in the 1000's e.g. Construction, Trucking, etc....there is always a leach that is sucking the industry dry.
The new way of making money is to not do anything worthwhile but to "value add" ... yea right.
so happy to be a driver
So $750k has been the minimum liability for decades and $100k doesn’t really cover the cargo these days. I seriously doubt anything is going to change regarding the broker transparency clause. In the end I think you’ll see a lot less small carriers starting or continuing business. When they eventually increase the insurance minimums that’ll put the vast majority of small carriers out of business. Even without the minimums increasing, just year to year premium increases are too much to bear for a lot of small companies.
Sooo true
Trucking is not dying, but companies Huron cheap and undercut other companies might be dying
Gill, what text to voice software?
Bad lip synchronization
I a foreigner and government help me buy truck I tell all my poor friends to com to us and get one would goverment benifits. I haul cheap because I no pay taxes. I have my own rules in trucking. Dot man give me ticket. I no pay em. I take 10 hr break on shoulder of interstate hw. And run high beams all the time at night
We don’t need daddy government doing anything. Learn to run a business. Keep the government out of our business. Everything the government gets in they F. It up. this doesn’t end well. Have a little foresight.
You do realize the government dictates the rules every business can play by right? If one party feels like the rules for another party are eggregiously advantageous... why wouldn't you speak up and advocate for yourself? You can work hard on your own business AND push for changes to be made at the federal level.
@ You realize you aren’t thinking like a business. You sign the contract, you agree to the rate. You only can blame yourself. Go put in the work to get the direct customers. The rule of full disclosure has always been a law. You can request the info anytime after hauling the load.
What will happen is you will be required to show full transparency of your profit. The shipper will see your numbers and start offering less money. It’s a race to the bottom. Businesses need to learn how to negotiate. If you can’t, go back to driving for businesses that can.
This is business. Everyone doesn’t get a trophy. No one is guaranteed to succeed.
The sooner these guys that can’t operate a profitable business are gone the sooner the ones that can will drive rates up.
It’s the low hanging fruit,hanging on, that’s driving rates into the ground.
@@greghess6077ok stop requiring me to have insurance and a mc/dot number to haul loads because those are all government requirements and I don’t need them to haul your load.
@@greghess6077ok so why do you want me as a carrier to comply with harsh government regulations to be able to haul your loads? But you don’t want to have any government regulation?
You won’t hire my carrier unless I have a mc/dot with high safety score and have insurance with the right amounts for cargo auto and liability. Hire me with no mc/dot I’ll get your load there. Let’s keep the government out of this buddy
@@SMD-i3v I am a carrier. I have to follow those rules as well. I can see rules for safety of us and the public. I also do not want the government restricting or regulating us to death as carriers. If it’s an open and free market we have way more options to conduct business. Carriers have an advantage they just don’t feel like they do. Brokers are our customers. If you can get direct shippers they are your customers. Fact is brokers are wanted by most shippers so they have one point of contact to deal with. Learn to negotiate with brokers. I’ve had one of my best years this year.
Load boards are bottom of the barrel freight. Cultivate relationships with brokers and shippers. Do the hard work of running the business. Almost anyone can drive. Act like a businessman not a driver. You’ll be surprised at the results.
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Where is the fmcsa link? In your description
Just posted it!
Why does it matter seeing what the shipper paid if you're not going to be able to do anything about it anyways? Like why fight to see it only so you can get pissed off and be mad that you're getting ripped off. In my opinion I would stick it to these companies and not haul for them. Get into another career. It's always going to be like this until people decide to stand up one day.
insurace is more than 12k a year for new carriers
Actually, its more about turning the industry over to a third world workforce. Sure brokers should be regulated in the amount of rape on the rates, so there is that. Billions in costs spread out across the Country right down to the consumers not commensurate of the services they preform. Regulation is needed. Over saturate the amount of trucks, and fill those seats with a third world workforce, and you got where we are at. Rates staying low regardless of any economy swings. 30yrs out here and my EYES prove this, its no opinion.
Yep, then we quit driving because the pay is terrible and another 3rd world driver fills our seat happily.
@@truckerdiaries3840 How many can speak English at fuel pump anymore 20% 10%
All true
The government should make brokers drive their loads so they can make all the money at 100% that will be great
Any industry where there’s a middleman who is dictating the market… there will be no harmony. Remove the middleman and create an open market between shippers and carriers (Amazon for the shipping of goods).
No unity among truckers
So why dont truckers become brokers and fix it?
I discuss this exact argument in the video boss
Hey I missed your videos buddy
CARTER F' ED EVERYTHING UP!!
Thank you
So you're one of those dispatching agents or companies and your ratting out Brokers but to be honest dispatching agencies and companies are not legit because you don't have insurance like Brokers do
The FMCSA just released clarification on what differentiates a truck dispatcher from a freight broker. Both are legitimate businesses, my problem is with specific practices.
(Btw we do have a brokerage authority and insurance)
need to use your dispatch service/broker service @@Gill22
and they just announced this broker transparency law is atleast delayed till 2026.
I would really like to see how the new administration deals with this. I’ve heard a lot of promises made and I’m hoping they pull through… but I’ll be objective 🤔
AI could replace brokers literally tomorrow…
IT WAS MAFIA BACK IN THE DAY.....MOB
AI/automation intent on replacibg drivers by 35' per the heads of a few top carriers/brokers
I help new law pass for truckers
What has this thing about to die. Government substaties to these carriers. They are in the green for years. While the owner op is living and operating in the in the red. Then brokers want to lock you in at some crazy rate. While you are fighting with insurance, fuel, over head, and your life's bills. Time away from mandatory things. Don't haul cheap freight. I don't support bottom feeders. They want rookies...inexperienced people. Backhand rate pullers 🙊🙉🙈... let your nuts drop
Just like the workers did at the ports…drivers must without a doubt..I mean all drivers..must go on strike..just imagine if not one truck move..
The Trucking business will eventually be fully automated which will keep truck employees Without a career.
Trucking is dead. Have you heard what I said after 40 years of driving I quit the industry because of the BS that lobulus have pushed. It changed the dynamics of the industry with these deaf systems, logbook nonsense, and politicians who got lobby by the lobbyist who never drove trucks before and it has turned the industry upside down and I see another five if we even make a five years, you won’t have no more truck industry in America I don’t know what it’s gonna look like I plan to abandon ship mean, I plan on leaving the country so when it goes to hell in the handbasket cause it’s on its way I will be nowhere around the head of screens and hollers of those who can’t get what they need to survive like food
Honestly bro I just want out of this industry and I got 2 trucks Financed I’m kinda of stuck I’m tried of it all
Broker = micro managing, broker is the variable in the equation that cant be figured out. Trucker is the low man , brokers need to limit fee to 8percent maximum. Or get rid of all brokers and let shippers contact carriers themselves . Cut the middleman out and the govt overeach out of the pocket of truckers.
Carrier 411 another piece of crap😡
Theres broker that will work with you with 3 to 6 months of exp not saying hes lying but yes youll definitely have more opportunities with 2 years but youll still get loads from brokers with 3 months just make a little harder
Enjoy your hyperinflation everyone
Greed
I like you, buddy
SOMEONE PLEASE FORWARD THIS VIDEO TO PRESIDENT TRUMP!!!!!
That and SAP !!!!
Way to go
5:13 You seriously didn't even mention Landstar!! Seriously
6:09 Where are you booking broker freight without 1,000,000 in insurance, probably adding an additional insured??
7:15 Where are you getting that number?? From the internet??
9:08 Yet another cry about how much someone else is making, rather than not waiting on freight that makes you money, You realize once you regulate / force your way into their business, it's just a matter of time until someone is doing the same with YOUR business, and telling YOU how much is FAIR for you to earn!!
10:20 Seriously, how long have you been using computers, no lost documents, LoL
10:40 So why exactly do you think you have that "Right", do you get to examine the restaurants books when you go out for dinner?? Are YOU going to open YOUR books for the shipper to look at??
11:05 Let the brokers requiring that, "FAX" the freight from one place to another, You do realize brokers need YOU more than You need THEM, Right!! When push comes to shove the guy with a truck will move more freight than a guy with a fax machine.
12:48 TRUTH!!!
That analogy doesn’t make any sense because trucking and restaurants operate completely differently. In the trucking industry, 49 CFR § 371.3 actually gives truckers the legal right to see how much brokers are making from shippers. Why? Because truckers aren’t just customers-they’re service providers directly generating the revenue brokers collect. When you haul a load, you’re entitled to know how the money is being split, especially in a federally regulated industry where transparency is required to prevent abuse. Asking for broker transparency is about fairness, not curiosity. You wouldn’t compare that to asking a restaurant owner for their books because diners aren’t part of the restaurant’s supply chain-they just pay a set price and leave. Apples and oranges.
@Gill22 Pretty soon, all the truck driving employees are gonna lose their jobs because The industry is going to be fully automated at a large scale with self driving trucks.
@@Gill22 LoL, go on believing that, see if you last 30+ years in the buisness, I do not miss anything except the people I used to meet and the places I traveled. Good Luck it's Your industry to do with as you please. GodSpeed
@@jasonzapata8924 LoL You're so funny, Do trains drive themselves? They're actually on tracks, not pavement with failing guide lines marking their paths. Good Luck
This guy just making trucking sound bad so you can sign up for his class lol market is getting better just don’t run empty miles utilize every load board you can and you will be alright Uber freight takes new authority so does coyote ypu just gotta look and if you have a hard time find a company to dispatch you for 1 year and then you will be alright 👍
WAy top go!
😂😂 This is the most funniest video I have seen in a long time. I know you weren't talking to truck drivers bro.
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trucking is not dying , o/o will be company drivers.
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Double and Triple Brokering...
ALL HUGE BITES OFF THE RATE BEFORE A O/O SEES IT... AND CALLS IT "CHEAP FREIGHT".... 🫡