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By Admin On January 12, 2010NO COMMENTS
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By WWFR On April 30, 2010
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JENNY BOOKED A LOAD FROM FONTANA, CA TO CHARLOTTE, NC FOR P/U ON 4/30/10 @ 8.30AM ON 4/30/10. WE FAXED THE RATE CONFIRMATION A FEW MINUTES LATER. BY 11AM, THEY STILL HADN’T FAXED THE RATE CONF. BACK. STILL NO RATE CONF. BY NOON. WE CALLED AGAIN. THEY SAID THEY WOULD SEND IT. THEY FINALLY FAXED IT BACK AT 2.11PM AFTER SEVERAL CALLS. THEY SAID THE DRIVER WAS ON HIS WAY TO FONTANA, EVEN THOUGH WE HADN’T YET DISPATCHED HIM. 3.15PM ROLLS AROUND AND WE CALL AND SPEAK WITH ANTHONY, WHO SAYS HE “JUST GOT OFF THE PHONE A FEW SECONDS AGO” WITH THE DRIVER AND HE BROKE DOWN WITH A BUSTED RADIATOR. HOW CONVENIENT! WE POSTED THE LOAD AGAIN AND LO AND BEHOLD! FIRST TRUCKING HAS THEY’RE TRUCK POSTED AGAIN AND THE POSTING IS ONLY A FEW MINUTES OLD! I ASKED ANTHONY IF THEY HAD ANY OTHER TRUCKS OUT THERE AND HE SAID THAT THEY DIDN’T HAVE ANY OTHERS AND THAT WAS THE ONLY ONE. SEEING THE OTHER BAD REPORTS, I’M BEGINNING TO THINK THAT FIRST TRUCKING‘S QUALITY OF SERVICE IS GOING DOWN HILL.
By WWFR On April 30, 2010
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Mike @ Bell City Transport out of Brantford, ON Canada, booked a load with us on 4/28/10 for a pickup on 4/30/10 in Erlanger, KY going to Mississauga, ON Canada. On Friday 4/30 at 1:30pm, we find out from Wade @ Bell City, that they don’t even have a truck in the area. Thanks a bunch! We have until 3pm to get the truck in to the shipper. Bell City had hauled a load for us in the past and did a decent job. Why their service was lacking this time?…I don’t know.
By TIR User On April 30, 2010
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Who is this report on?: Report on Broker
Type of Report?: Bad
MC, MX, or FF Number of company you are reporting (if on carrier or broker. Must be accurate): 695778
Name of company you are reporting: mainstream co.
Fax Number of company you are reporting: 619-785-3375
Details of the event: took load for 900.00 double brokered for 1800.00 didn’t pay carrier who took the load
Your Company: us backhauler
By Admin On April 23, 2010
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By WWFR On April 20, 2010
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We were informed today by Alpha Packaging in Cincinnati, OH, that they will be closing their doors on April 30th, 2010 and not paying their freight bills. We have an invoice from early December that they have never paid and constantly avoided any phone calls.
By TIR User On April 13, 2010
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Who is this report on?: Report on Broker
Type of Report?: Other
MC, MX, or FF Number of company you are reporting (if on carrier or broker. Must be accurate): 193751
Name of company you are reporting: Bull Transportation
Fax Number of company you are reporting: 310-907-5703
Details of the event: Bull Transportation MC193751 are operating from the same office Freedom Express Logistics operate. They have the same phone and fax numbers, offering ridiculous high rates and asking the carriers to pick up freight for Freedom Express. I had a bad experience hauling a load for Freedom Express… They took a load from sunshine logistics getting paid 1400 and double brokered to me offering 1800. I was lucky because the shipper didn’t loaded me since he (the shipper) gave the load to sunshine and I was cheeking in for Freedom. I’m pretty sure Freedom Express is double brokering loads using Bull Transportation
By TIR User On March 18, 2010
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Who is this report on?: Report on Carrier
Type of Report?: Bad
MC, MX, or FF Number : 473319
Name of company you are reporting: SASSOON EXPRESS INC
Fax Number of company you are reporting: 330-482-7065
Details of the event: Carrier picked up load 3-16-10, today calls stating load will NOT be moved until payment is made….found out this carrier is associated with scam artist FREEDOM EXPRESS MC#643699 out of Tujunga, CA…..this carrier SASSOON EXPRESS MC#473319 was not on any prior list, we figured this out due to their factoring company papers they sent us for Alpha and Omega Factoring…….Please watch out for SASSOON EXPRESS INC MC#473319 OUT OF TUJUNGA, CA…..
By TIR User On March 18, 2010
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We’ve experienced the same thing two times now when trying to cover loads for a particular customer. The customer is in Eastern Washington where there is not always a lot of freight or trucks. There always seems to be only one or two trucks within a hundred miles of our load, but the loads move just fine because the money is fair enough to drive a little ways for it. The customer uses a total of 3 brokers. He doesn’t call all 3 at once. He’ll give the winning bidder a head start and if they do not cover it within a day or so, he will call in one other. He’s just trying to maximize his options for an on time delivery.
Twice now we have learned that the situation I described above has resulted in one truck booking the load through both brokers and cancelling on the one that pays the least. Even though this worked to my benefit both times-because I was the one offering the truck a little more money- I am not out to get the other broker. I think the trucker did a rotten thing to her. I only found out by talking to my customer as the truck was leaving his yard. He loaded the truck and called me afterwards to express his suspicion that the trucker had done this. In one instance we had a trucker successfully drive the rate up by bidding higher to both brokers and doing this same thing. Again, we discovered it was one guy making multiple phone calls after he was loaded and gone. You have seen my emails about how our company is set up with young ladies in the dispatch department and us old farts over here in sales not actually talking to drivers that much. I am pretty sure I would know it if the same guy kept calling me with new offers. But I still would not know for sure he had ever spoken with another broker (but I’d know…because who wouldn’t speak to all posters!).
The customer and I have discussed his alternating use of only one broker at a time as a remedy. Seems like a good idea.
I wonder if anyone else out there experiences this and what they do to prevent it. I don’t mind a trucker negotiating and calling every broker who posts a load- but I do think its pretty rotten to book the load with more than one of us.
What do you think?
By TIR User On March 3, 2010
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Advice for team loads and team shipments-
Brokers-
- Make sure YOU dispatch the drivers
- Make sure you talk to both drivers on the same phone at the same time
- Dont take any excuse that one driver is at the truck stop, taking a shower, or a long BM
- Specify both drivers must check in with shipper & sign bill of lading
Carriers & Drivers
- Be prepared to for both drivers to talk to the broker and shipper
- Both drivers should check in with the shipper, they are paying for a team, make your presence known, its all about customer service
- Give realistic delivery times, not just what sounds good, it will save you a LOT of phone calls
- Understand that if it is a team load, it’s going to be a hot shipment, so there will be more pressure on it
By TIR User On February 26, 2010
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