As some of you who followed my http://www.expeditersonline.com/forum/newbies-paradise-forum/48726-cant-get-medical-card.html thread in the Newbies forum are aware, I got my MC authority about 2-3 weeks ago. Now comes the hard part: finding freight!
With this in mind, a Google search brought up cargosoup.com. I looked at it, thought "Wow, just what I need!" and invested $20 in joining up. WHAT A MISTAKE THAT WAS! As opposed to the demo, which shows anywhere from 10-30 loads available in just about any state, the actual board had NO freight in ANY state. A few states have comments from people like myself who have been screwed by this site, such as "Oh, you've been taken too, huh?" I added one to Pennsylvania's so-called freight board, noting that I intend to contact my state Attorney General's Office as well as the AG in Wisconsin, where cargosoup is located.
So what have I learned?
1. Never trust a static load board demo. If it's the same loads on Friday as it was on Tuesday, it may not be legit.
2. If it seems too good to be true.... it's probably not. I thought $20 was a good price to pay to find loads on a cargo-van centered load board, that's why I went for it. If this had been a real board, it might possibly have been a boon to the business. I wish I had the experience and the expertise to start such a board; I'd be happy as heck to think I'm helping people and making a good, honest buck doing that.
3. It's still tough to figure out which boards, IF ANY, are useful to the vanner. Expedite Loads seems to be OK, but they have 10000 loads for 18-wheelers on any given day, and about 1-4 van/Sprinter loads. Other boards seem to be the same way.
Kudos to Jefferson3000 for trying to help me out; he and I have swapped a couple PM's on this matter
. He referred me to Sylectus, but they require at least 5 trucks to join up, and I have only one. Good job anyway, Jeff!
Anybody else who can help a poor, innocent noob get started, please do! May God bless you!
With this in mind, a Google search brought up cargosoup.com. I looked at it, thought "Wow, just what I need!" and invested $20 in joining up. WHAT A MISTAKE THAT WAS! As opposed to the demo, which shows anywhere from 10-30 loads available in just about any state, the actual board had NO freight in ANY state. A few states have comments from people like myself who have been screwed by this site, such as "Oh, you've been taken too, huh?" I added one to Pennsylvania's so-called freight board, noting that I intend to contact my state Attorney General's Office as well as the AG in Wisconsin, where cargosoup is located.
So what have I learned?
1. Never trust a static load board demo. If it's the same loads on Friday as it was on Tuesday, it may not be legit.
2. If it seems too good to be true.... it's probably not. I thought $20 was a good price to pay to find loads on a cargo-van centered load board, that's why I went for it. If this had been a real board, it might possibly have been a boon to the business. I wish I had the experience and the expertise to start such a board; I'd be happy as heck to think I'm helping people and making a good, honest buck doing that.
3. It's still tough to figure out which boards, IF ANY, are useful to the vanner. Expedite Loads seems to be OK, but they have 10000 loads for 18-wheelers on any given day, and about 1-4 van/Sprinter loads. Other boards seem to be the same way.
Kudos to Jefferson3000 for trying to help me out; he and I have swapped a couple PM's on this matter
. He referred me to Sylectus, but they require at least 5 trucks to join up, and I have only one. Good job anyway, Jeff! Anybody else who can help a poor, innocent noob get started, please do! May God bless you!
