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@MVanwesten87007 Love sunsets!!

A beautiful sunset in Kingman Arizona and the Aurora behind it

@MVanwesten87007 Pretty! 🤩

This is Albuquerque New Mexico at night

More updates post SCOTUS: - Everyone believes rates will continue to surge. "You haven't seen anything yet." - Highway told me that the biggest shift this week has been brokers staying away from non-dom CDLs. This was a significant shift from a week ago. - Shippers are incredibly nervous. Some are looking to move all freight to managed trans. - Large brokers are incredibly bullish. - No one knows anything about brokerage insurance increases, but the most consistent guess is 3x. - Large brokers believe that significant consolidation is coming, with the top 500 brokers winning share, long tail brokers likely become agents under Armstrong, Landstar, WWEX. - Conditional rating is very frustrating for carriers. - Large carriers have asked the FMCSA for "more inspections."

@KuryshVasy73776 @HubGroup I havent worked with them in years so I have no clue. I am hearing multiple brokers are not paying in a timely fashion right now.

Anyone else having trouble reaching @HubGroup / Choptank Transport accounting lately? Multiple invoices outstanding, AP team not responding to calls or emails. Is this a known issue? Any working contacts would be appreciated. #trucking #freight #carriers #hubgroup @TMSuccessful

Interesting to see how brokers are reacting to this tragic crash post the Broker liability decision. Are they being asked to just do their due diligence or to "forecast stupidity" as one person said? I would say that the best course of action is to stop looking at surface level stuff and taking things at face value. Dig deeper, look at the connections and history.

This is a little bit funny. One of the things brokers used to say when everyone was very upset about the rates was, "Go find your own customers". I don't know about carriers looking for shippers, but I know that shippers are really starting to look for carriers directly, bypassing the broker. What's funny is that brokers then try to convince the customer why working directly with carriers is a bad idea. That being said: shippers! Please make it a priority to do your homework on the carrier you are hiring. 🫶

@TimothyDooner 🤣🤣🤣

She woke up at 5:45 in the morning, set up outside with her giant copy of BUILD AMERICA 250, and committed to reading all 1,005 pages in a single sitting. She tracked her progress hour by hour, pushed through the sun and wind, took one quick lunch break, and finally closed the book at 7 PM — 13 hours later — with the biggest smile. I actually read Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in one sitting, and I felt really proud of myself afterward.... and that book is 734 pages. I can’t even imagine powering through all 1,005 pages of It in a single day like she did. There’s something really rewarding about deciding to do something difficult and actually seeing it all the way through. Have you ever finished a government bill in a single sitting? If so, what bill was it?

@DestopianL10142 This!!!

@TMSuccessful Flatbed's must qualify the load. Broker that withholds basic information most likely does not really have the load anyway.

My biggest pet peeve: When I reach out on a posted load and all the broker will tell me is "this is the rate, can you cover it?" without providing a single load detail, its annoying. Is it tarps? What size? Is it legal? What am I hauling? When am I getting loaded and unloaded?

@JustinDohrn LOL!!!!!!

you will love this one, had a broker say it needed 4ft tarps. get there and its just shy of 8 ft tall. when i question him on it he said" i ment the width". i kid you not that was a first and that's what he had posted on truckstop. had a ten min conversation about what 4,6 and 8 foot tarps mean.

@JustinDohrn Or... "its legal, here are all the dims" and then you get there and the height is off by 2 feet, and the width is off by 1 foot. LOL. Yes, that has happened to us.

@TMSuccessful I love the "Its legal" and you get there and its 10 ft tall which means a big difference in mpgs

@freadomtruck07 Actually, some of the best loads I booked were without a posted rate and no load details (because everyone else ignores those). But those brokers actually had the decency to provide all the info over the phone when I called.

@TMSuccessful If they can't bother to provide that basic information in the notes with the market where it's at right now. Why would you bother calling?

@freadomtruck07 Yeah, usually there will be details in the "Notes" but the ones I am talking about will have nothing in the notes and then refuse to provide details that actually matter.

@TMSuccessful Isn't there a way to mark that on the load board?

@TimothyDooner Yep, that's how some brokers act. Or my favorite- as soon as I ask about the details, they disappear. 😂

@TMSuccessful When i was on the ocean side of freight, LCL was always the biggest pain because these shippers act like you’re interrogating them just by asking basic questions about weight, dims, palletized. LTL was similar. And then you got people crying about accessorials all the time

From now on, I am referring to police cars as wee-woos. Best video on the internet! 🤣

@TimothyDooner You are so funny 🤣 Ask me in a month

@TMSuccessful Tell me you read all 1005 pages

Reading through the BUILD AMERICA 250 Act, and I can't begin to explain how excited I am that shippers and receivers will now have to provide bathroom access to truckers. About damn time...this should have never been such an issue, but it was.

Question, is it just me not seeing it or is it missing? With this Build America 250 Act, there is a section on DataQ and how they plan to make it visible when you contest a violation. I didn't see anything on crashes there and contesting those: will it also be visible? I had a hell of a time contesting mine (some jackass ran into us so it was not preventable on our end)- and that crap showed up as a regular crash for MONTHS which caused some serious issues on our end. So again: when contesting a crash as not preventable, does it publicly show that there is a review process going on?

@GordMagill I learned a new word: quibble! 😁

Minor quibble with Miranda here, and something I ought write about at length one of these days, but truckers were blocked out of using bathrooms for a reason - the further into the Human Resources barrel you go to scrape for bodies, the less considerate of people you will find.