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At about day 90, we would go ahead and pay our driver for the load and we would go after the broker's bond. If the bond has already been exhausted and the broker is in bankruptcy, we are probably out the money but would seek advice from our attorney.

Our "leg up" was the 9 years I was an ops manager at Rush. For about 7-8 of those years I networked with most of these brokers, 3PLs & carriers that we now work with daily. It was a huge help to at least "open the doors". Then me bustin my ar$e on the road and proving our drive for 2 years...

Correct. Although we've been in contact with another big carrier about their "board", as of right now it's all Sylectus subscriber's overflow. Exactly as you described.

Average days to pay so far for this fiscal year (1/1-8/6) for broker accounts only is currently 36.6 days. We write checks on Friday each week, for any checks in by then, then we mail them. So add several days to a week or 10 for say a check in on Monday and mailed on Friday and received by the...

Without checking every transaction, I suspect the average is about 6 weeks. We certainly have brokers that go past 6 weeks, but we also have plenty that fall under. But I'll pull the report and report back. I might be surprised!!

Another good reason NOT to factor invoices. Shaves percentages off of money that was never even the carriers to begin with. Preserve those funds for the drivers. Sure glad we don't factor.

Pack a bag. It wasn't hopping down there today.

Yet the BIG carriers are the FIRST to contract the LOWEST bid. The lowest. We lose bids many times a day that the big carrier's broker side posts. We have good relationships with many of them and they, many times, confirm they went with the 85 CPM bid. Trust me. Almost NO carriers are immune...

Hey, let's agree to disagree....sometimes. Carriers of ALL sizes CAN do things right & wrong. O/Os have all different needs. Some carriers need more or less margin. It'll either work, or not, long term. O/Os can and will operate and make money for all different CPMs per mile, short and long...

Kaffenbarger is usually expensive. Try googling "trailer supplies & repair" close to where you are. I got really inexpensive etrack & straps from some place down in KY that way.

YES, you did!!! Of course one can't call Rush an Expediting carrier. But it was hard to relate the stresses of 135 drivers and hundreds of deliveries a day. But glad it's starting to fall into place for you!! The pics of your office look nice! Nice "bosses" desk. I prefer those old steel...

Correct. Those sound like shady "carriers", and calling them "carriers" is a mistake, IMHO. For the record. In case anyone is confused. Although it doesn't matter much as we're only a few away from our max fleet size that we're comfortable with. 1) Our wonderful EXCLUSIVE O/Os run on our MC...

August looking up already! We had about 54 minutes overnight where all 5 guys were on a load. Now they're ALL empty but ONE!! LOL!! But one Sprinter booked now too!! The merry-go-round keeps turning!!

LOL!! Actually two of those time I was "the husband that gave up his job in city A to move to city B with his wife that got a better job". Was glad to do it. Yes, that was my ex-wife.

Plant manager. 6 years. Warehouse & distribution manager. 3 years. Sales of that distributed product. 1 year. Warehouse manager. 2 years. Terminal manager & Ops manager for courier & trucking co. 9.5 years. Started own courier & expediting Co. 2.5 years. Yes. I'm getting older now.

Yeah, he's a good one!

Cincinnati, and surrounding areas, was quite disappointing today. It wasn't you or TS today. It was the market in general.

Maybe if everyone moved to Bison and "obtained" near-perfect credit and were in their 50s and drove a Sprinter like Ken's and had a spotless driving record they might get quoted better rates on commercial insurance & cargo. Just sayin'.

Lest we forget there are plenty of reasons for a policy to be expensive. Yes, the vehicle and residency state are big factors, but age and "insurance credit rating" are also big factors. The insurance industry has made a correlation between a persons credit rating and their likelihood to...

I've had to delete and reinstall twice for that reason.