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@FreightAlley Honestly it will be better for the industry if brokers who have been low cost offices on these types of carriers get flushed from the system. There is a potential cleansing happening and it will be glorious.

This is far more common among freight brokers than anyone wants to admit

@alex_m_taylor22 Any word on people leaving?

Wrote a story about Wyoming hoops today, and something that's really unappreciated is the program's ability to recruit top-tier guards. This is just from 2020-2026: 2023: Hunter Maldonado (2nd team All-MW) 2024: Sam Griffin (All-MW HM) 2025: Obi Agbim (MW Newcomer of the Year) 2026: Leland Walker (All-MW HM) Also Noah Reynolds, Drake Jeffries, Akuel Kot, Marcus Williams, to name a few more

@FreightAlley @supertrucker This is so needed and would be amazing for the industry

Not only will Dalilah's law permanently eliminate non-domiciled CDLs, it will also restrict foreign dispatchers and freight brokers

@investingluc You the man

@Utah307 Yes, putting it together again now. will post asap

I made a "should I be trading?" dashboard. Scores the market across 5 pillars: - volatility (put/call ratio, vix, positioning) - trend (spx vs 20d, 50d, 200d ma's) - breadth (advancing/declining, nas highs/lows) - momentum (sector leaders, laggards, % participation) - macro (fomc, rates, geopolitics) Each is weighted, combined, and averaged to give me a score for the current environment. Basically a yes, no, or stay small. Sometimes I just need someone (or something) to remind me to stay out. Happy to share the prompt if you guys want it...but I made this with @perplexity_ai's Computer.

@garrett_makes @supertrucker Agreed. This is the future but if asked it needs to be legit and let them know it’s an ai agent.

AI claiming to be a human should be illegal.

Doesn’t matter if you were approached or vice versa. You came into contact with the opportunity hauling the brokers load- would be a clear back solicitation violation on your end. Also…shippers wanting direct assets is not new. The problem is they can’t manage 10,000 5 truck or less relationships with 6 people.

@rudyl2024 That's a good question: this receiver approached us (we had to say no because this is not a lane we run or are looking to run, it was a one time thing to get out of an area). I am wondering though whether it is considered back solicitation if we were the ones approached.

Interesting day. At unloading today, the receiver (customer) told us that he is tired of brokers price gouging (he paid the broker $1100 more than what we received on the load) and offered to do direct business with us on this lane. His rationale? He saves money on his side, but we make more money on our side, and cut out brokers completely. Looks like some shippers/receivers are waking up to the fact that the market is changing, capacity is more scarce, and maybe having relationships with carriers directly is more cost effective and efficient than using brokers. Point is: maybe now is the time to start looking for direct shippers? They might be more willing to work with carriers directly.

@realcarrier411 No makes too much sense…so Yes, yes they should be!! 😂

@JasonrShuman @Madhur_Yadav Dumb

@Madhur_Yadav Smart

The US needs 500,000 new electricians this decade. Apprenticeships take 5 years. Microsoft’s Brad Smith says it’s the #1 thing slowing data center expansion. The AI bottleneck isn’t chips. It’s the trades.

@Madhur_Yadav @JasonrShuman Absolutely not.

@JasonrShuman Launch H1B for trade and build

@realcarrier411 @Ahbleza45 @atutruckers Amen. The safety framework has to come from the body allowing the authority to be active. Then you can hold brokers responsible from that framework.

Great question. Brokers are responsible for selecting carriers. Carriers are responsible for their own operation and safety. That's the line. But somewhere along the way, the industry blurred it… Now we've got brokers: • Calling drivers for fraud purposes • Calling drivers for track and trace • Calling carrier dispatch to flush out lies • Double-checking paperwork • Verifying with customers the truck showed up • Verifying with customers the right carrier show up • Trying to "vet" operations they don't control Let's be honest… Talking to a driver on the phone isn’t safety vetting. It’s theater. If FMCSA says a carrier is "fit to operate"… Why are brokers forced to build entire systems to second-guess it? You can't have it both ways. Either FMCSA qualification means something, or the industry is quietly admitting it doesn't.

I respect your opinion, @atutruckers. But your perspective needs a bit of a reality check. Brokers don't put "dangerous, unqualified, unvetted trucks and drivers on our highways". Brokers don't hire drivers. Brokers don't maintain trucks. Brokers don't manage hours of service. Carriers do. Yet every time there's a crash, somehow the blame gets redirected upstream away from carriers. Let's be clear: If a carrier puts an unsafe driver behind the wheel… If they ignore maintenance… If they run illegal hours… If they hire someone with a non-domiciled CDL... If they hire someone who can't speak or read English... That's not a brokerage failure. That's a carrier failure. Accountability shouldn’t be optional depending on the headline. Carriers are responsible for their operations. Looking forward to hearing from the Supreme Court on this very important issue. Allegations for negligent selection of motor carriers and vicarious liability should not be the responsibility of brokers and shippers when carriers are at fault.

@itsCblast Missed it 🤦🏻‍♂️

Day 2 of Challenge $NDX ✅

@boneheadtruckrs Well…all truck drivers think they are good truck drivers too. You can choose to not trust any of us, that’s totally your choice.

@Utah307 All brokers think they are the good brokers. That’s why I don’t trust not a one of yall.

I bet a hundred that this dude is a broker or works for a broker.... I'm about to go on a mission to ban brokers from the internet...

@maybedanielleee You’d think the FMCSA would set up a lead line so people doing work to expose could help. @SecDuffy

Consider me absolutely SHOCKED. Hope Trans hasn't paid their FMCSA fines. Wild how that works.

Lots of people in the industry talk about having the American trucker in their best interest…most of them don’t. Several accounts on here that I see spewing broker hate, pretending to be about the American trucker and then one of them lets it slip that they only want large companies on the road.

The ATA has been claiming the industry is “80,000” drivers short for the past 3 decades. More than 2x that number are about to be flushed out of the market, and yet things will still get delivered. More proof that they’ve been lying this entire time. Abolish the ATA.

@thomascharping @adamlwingfield 💯

@Utah307 @adamlwingfield This sums it up mostly. Theres nuances (ie - runs daily with same carrier. Likely to have a LH+FSC agreement)

If you are a broker, and billing shippers for FSC and not passing it along to the carrier rightfully, two things: 1.) That’s your business and I’m sure that’s the argument. But….. 2.) We got beef….this ain’t the time to be shafting the very carriers that are moving this country forward.

@STAAExposed @FreightWaves You literally have no understanding of this portion of the business/industry, and every time you say something about brokers you give us more proof.

@FreightWaves It’s called transparency… That’s how you fix that… Yet another reason freight brokers are chaos agents.. Truckers not about to keep allowing the theft.. Saying the $$ is not there and then billing for it is called what? Business???? NOPE

If you’ve got 5 trucks, you’re paying full price at the pump while the big players use massive buying power to skip the line. Even worse? Brokers are billing shippers for fuel surcharges but aren't passing those margins down to the spot market.The squeeze is real. Full episode: vist.ly/4v4nt

@DaveNewellPhoto @FreightWaves You think that they have enough people in their transportation departments to manage 15,000 carriers with 2-3 trucks?

@FreightWaves Do I hear another reason why we don’t need brokers? They simply do the work that the transportation office of the shippers do. And if the ship did the work, I bet you that there would not be as much theft, fraud and double booking of loads.