REALIZING YOU DIDN’T NEED A CDL AND A TRUCK TO MAKE MONEY IN LOGISTICS.

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HighwayStar71@reddit

I don't understand why brokers even still exist considering how the Internet can match a shipper and a driver completely eliminating the middleman.

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we-meet-again@reddit

As a non trucker, can you explain what you mean by the internet matching shippers with truckers?

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Load boards like a forum. Or example it would be kinda like a reddit post. A company post stating need dry/refer/flat bed etc shipping whatever they need moved from point A to point B for what ever $ they want. You can do it yourself on the internet usually pay subscription to get access to a load board.

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we-meet-again@reddit

This is happening or it's a dream? What sites are people using as a truck driver to get connected with shippers?

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Q7017@reddit

A lot of OTR doorswingers are older folks that likely don't understand how it works.

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DigAccomplished6481@reddit

Legit.

I do admirative work, and like 15 years ago went I had to mail and fax shit all over NA.

Now more and more of it is online only, they don't accept faxed forms at many places anymore.

Only customers I keep lately are eighter Boomers who have this fuck modern tech attitude so they rather pay me to go online and punch in they're credit card numbers for them.

The other bunch are new drivers to Canada or USA and have no idea how any of this works and hire me to help them out.

I'm watching this all become more and more simple, seeing my Customers eigther close shop or 'do it themselves', so I decided to go get a Class 1 this winter. With nearly 20 years experience in teh trucking industry I think It's about damn time to learn to drive the truck

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ItsHowWellYouMowFast@reddit

Worms will always find their way into the system. Adding nothing while extracting profits.

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Nachogeddon@reddit

Bottom feeders, parasites

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Armchair-Attorney@reddit

He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.

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KingNebyula@reddit

The shit abyss, Ricky

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BoringJuiceBox@reddit

I wouldn’t feel right literally stealing from drivers and clients. Total scam.

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Macondo-1923@reddit

Broker margins are way too high for having the lowest touch point in the process. They’re making shipping way more expensive than it has to be and they paying poor wages that pushes quality truck drivers (that we desperately need right now) out of the industry.

Reality of it is: there’s a knowledge gap. The knowledge gap is that no one knows how to directly connect with shippers and shippers don’t know how to connect directly with carriers. Pad on some fear propaganda headlines about the small percentage of truck drivers doing terribly drastic things, driving high or drunk, accidents galore - and you have a perfect storm for barely graduated kids to get extorted into these brokerages from old heads wanting to make money pound over fist, screwing literally everyone (carrier, shipper, and end consumer) in the process.

There are good honest brokers too that are looking for good honest carriers, but that also gets drowned out in the headlines. All meanwhile gas is extremely high because of an orange man is acting against his congress & Geneva, automation is replacing honest workers, and fraud is rampant.

Welcome to the party.

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almilian@reddit (OP)

Become a broker.

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almilian@reddit (OP)

something like that.

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almilian@reddit (OP)

Brokerage.