Why don't brokers list the ACTUAL product?

Brokers don't want everyone who has access to the load board to INSTANTLY be able to determine who their customer is and back solicit

A lot of them don't even get that far with customers they are just fishing for the most part to see if they can get interest in hauling before they get that far into it .

It's just a to not make it so easy to back solicit. At the end of the day back soliciting happens ALL THE TIME. NOTHING is going to protect someone from that. Among 3rd party sellers it is common practice to ship blind. The customer knows it's a blind shipment by looking at the paperwork most of the time and they are good with it. Why would you willingly give up the shippers info as a thrid party seller and kill your deal?

Is it back soliciting when there brokering another brokers load you see it all the time on b/l

I have a load out of La Porte TX going to Park City KY... Pneumatic that Needs to blow off

Product is MagOX

Call me if you have a truck available Monday the 14th

402.533.2018

I also have a weekly load that goes to Sulphur Springs TX weekly. same product and shipper.

Dale, I can't speak for anyone else, but I can tell you we have had a few O/O's call our customers behind our backs and offer to do the load for LESS that we were paying them initially, this takes "Broker hating" to an all new level, We're in the midst of a generation where loyalty means VERY little anymore. The majority of customers are looking for the cheapest way to move their freight, this makes sense. However, in a good number of the aformentioned cases the shipper ends up calling us back because either the trucking company couldn't get it done or couldn't handle the volume or whatever the reason might be. I'm also being sincere when I ask you this, could I have the contact information of your best paying customers so I can offer great service cheaper? Obviously I would NEVER do this but it should work the same both ways. I would never try to diminish what you guys do on a daily basis, I've been on that side of the wheel and we still run trucks here too. I still maintain as I mentioned in previous posts (And was degraded & ridiculed for) that the position of "Broker" does not have to be seen as evil, I know nobody will agree but we work for YOU, I'll spend countless hours/days working with customers to get rates up to where they're fair for EVERYONE. Then many times after all that another "Broker hater" will call them and make empty promises or tell them the rate needs to be higher or whatever. I've been told multiple times this is why many customers prefer to sue brokers, one call gets the load/loads covered as they rarely have time to field dozens of calls from others. I would assume like most if your wheels aint turnin' you aint earnin', you guys have a job to do and I cant imagine spending hours calling & emailing prospective shippers is very high on your "Love doing" list, correct me if I'm wrong but those hours aren't paying you anything. I also hear from many of you how you will bounce 300-400 miles right past a load paying $2.50/mi for a 400 mile load to get to a 500 mile load paying $3.50/mi, dont the bounce miles cost you about the same to drive? now i DO understand having to make a statement about nobody should be hauling cheap freight, "dont haul it & the rates will come up" Though I agree this would be GREAT!!, however the realist in me forces me to look back at recent history, this hasn't worked. There will ALWAYS be trucks out there willing to haul for barely over the price of fuel, though I do not agree with this practice I can understand why they do it. I k now I will be degraded and called names after this post as usual but I will always maintain there IS room for all of us to work in a symbiotic relationship. OK, let the derrogatory remarks begin.

I asked a broker in the van business years ago about the origin / destination thing. Their explaination was logical to me. And their intent wasn't to hide anything but to draw in more potential trucks with a larger radius search or a larger recognizable location. Have you ever widened you scope in search of something? They're doing the same thing in reverse. Hell you may come on to something that is closer than you expected.

I'm very careful about what I put in my trailer. For my sake and the shipper or recievers sake, (whether they are willing to put their product on my trailer). This means full discloser (about the equipment) and asking questions in order to not waste anyones time.