ThinkFreight 💭🚚

Tough day for this driver in Houston. 🙃

@TMSuccessful look-a-like domain strikes again 🥲

Its becoming more difficult to spot a legitimate broker by email. In this case, the only difference is the formatting before the @. How Omar was able to get that domain name is beyond me.

@TMSuccessful A lot of brokerages will definitely struggle.

Oof if you have been a broker since 2023 or so...this is going to be a rough one. From 2023 -2025 it was super easy to find capacity. I remember calling brokers and their phones in the background were ringing off the hook. Almost always the same: "please hold"- "covered" (when the load has been out for less than a minute).

3 weeks. There has to be a more efficient way to go through the process and clean this mess up- a statement that should apply to every part of the trucking industry.

Multi-personality Chameleon Carrier: This variant operates multiple carrier authorities simultaneously, switching identities depending on the situation (which shipper or broker and the load booked). If you've blacklisted one of their identities, that's simply not a problem for them. They do not care about your blacklists. Oh noooo. What can we do to stop them?! Easy, STOP GIVING THEM FREIGHT.

@ryanjoycevoice IAH has been 2-5 hour wait times as well. Wild.

I truly don’t understand how ATL and LGA can have 3-6 hour TSA lines…yet IAD is literally a zero minute wait. 🤷🏼‍♂️

Wanna know a big reason why brokerages will be around for the foreseeable future? 120 days to pay.

Part of me hopes this is fake. Part of me thinks this is probably real. Imagine a broker deciding to cut your rate by 79% as a late fee. If real, I can’t help but wonder: Was this guy like a month late to delivery?

The days of a “Wild West” trucking industry are OVER because of the Trump administration’s crackdown. You can no longer drive a big rig in America if you can’t read our road signs or communicate with law enforcement 🚛 American families come FIRST🇺🇸

Imagine you're pregnant. Imagine you learn you have an incompetent cervix that requires surgery. You get the surgery. You also get doctor's orders for bed rest & you ask your boss if you can work from home. But your boss denies it, so you have to go back to the office. You work in the office for a few days, until a desperate call from your husband to the company finally allows you to work from home. And then this...

@ArmchairAtty @FreightAlley and gongs blaring in the background

@FreightAlley It’s making a promise to one person & then asking another person to keep that promise for you. Also nicotine & coffee.

Trying to explain the role of a freight broker to anyone outside the trucking industry is…. Challenging.

@dantechenth @StephenRuhe absolutely agree.

@ThinkFreight @StephenRuhe Two years at a toxic company = expensive education. At least you learned exactly what to run from.

If you're doing business with TQL and this news doesn't bother you... you are part of the problem enabling this work culture.

Which one of you bozos thought it was a good idea to build the entire world economy off just in time supply chains from the most unstable regions on the planet?

Big news out of Hamilton County, OH today. "HAMILTON COUNTY, Ohio (WKRC) - A Hamilton County jury has awarded $22 million against Total Quality Logistics in a wrongful death lawsuit tied to the death of a newborn, according to attorneys for the plaintiff." Link below

I am starting to seriously consider stopping all operations until diesel prices level out.

Found this on Facebook...36 FreightGuard reports. Decided to look them up. 0 Inspections, in business since 2023. They do share an address (office building, same floor) with a Freight Forwarder that is waiting for the FF number to be granted though. Before that, this FF was a carrier from 2023-2025 (authority revoked in Jan of 2025).

Florida inspectors busted a driver using a magnetic fuel-stealing device. Meanwhile, the FMCSA is digging into medium-duty crash causes. ow.ly/os6t50YvQV4

@TMSuccessful 😭

New fear unlocked. For the past 4 years I felt a rush of anxiety every morning when logging into my loadboard, preparing for the absolutely horrific rates and upcoming negotiations. Now Wednesdays are the only day I feel anxiety: This is the day we get our fuel card bill.