Tag: broker transparency: Page 6

Overdrive Radio

Transparency in high demand, though seldom formally sought from this broker: Part 2 with Paul Berman

In this Overdrive Radio episode, East Coast Transport's Logistics VP discusses potential new requirements related to freight-transaction transparency, and more.

June 4, 2020

Overdrive Radio

Transparency, history, strategy from the other side of the fence with a food-industry broker — part 1

Hear longtime broker and former owner-operator Paul Berman on history and strategy trucking, spot market evolution, bad actors exposed by the recent crisis.

May 29, 2020

Business

D.C. protest reached an apex inside the White House

Amid financial pressures and abysmal freight rates for many truckers, D.C. demonstrators on their 20th day enter the White House for a substantive discussion.

May 21, 2020

Overdrive Radio

D.C. protests, broker transparency, hours changes and more with independent Bryan Hutchens

From D.C. demonstrators to hours of service changes, owner-operator Bryan Hutchens voices his opinions about it all on this edition of Overdrive Radio.

May 15, 2020

Channel 19

New tools toward broker transaction transparency, truck stop amenities status

Trimble's a new interactive 'COVID-19 Safe Havens' status map for truck-stop locations and OOIDA's template for broker transaction details review request.

May 13, 2020

Channel 19

Cap those broker margins? Readers sound off, and one broker moves to do it himself

Despite a majority in favor of a cap, critics of any regulation limiting pricing were more vocal than the majority. Read more here on Overdrive.

May 8, 2020

Channel 19

With rates ‘nowhere near sustainable’ for independent truckers, debate stirs over ‘re-regulating’

Owner-operators at D.C. demonstrations, others discuss the potential need to evaluate regulation-free pricing in the trucking. Read more here on Overdrive.

May 5, 2020

Overdrive Radio

Words to truck by: ‘You will never, ever come out ahead running at a loss’

Independent owner-operators Daniel and Phyllis Snow of Snow Trucking discuss market deterioration, fallen freight volumes, and more. Listen here on Overdrive.

May 1, 2020

Overdrive Extra

Carriers’ right to review what the shipper paid for a brokered load

Knowing what the shipper paid for your brokered load on a case-by-case basis can help you determine whether you're treated fairly by the broker. That is, if you can get past barriers some brokers erect against a carrier's review of transaction records.

April 30, 2020

Business

Truckers ‘just lose’ when brokers don’t pay

Looking back at the first of a multi-part series exploring issues related to the financial security of freight brokers and how some shady operators exploit loopholes in current regulatory processes to cheat owner-operators, despite unenforced statutes intended to better prevent the practice.

March 27, 2020

Channel 19

The broker-margin transparency federal law already affords to carriers who request it

Owner-operators have a “right to review” amounts paid by shippers, collected by brokers and disbursed to themselves in any brokered freight transaction. But a right does nothing for anyone if not exercised — too many truckers, watchers contend, just aren’t aware of this one.

January 9, 2019

Business

Highway robbery: A clouded transparency

You think you’re all set: After 120 deadhead miles, you’re almost to the pickup — when the broker calls. The load’s canceled, he says, and $150 truck-ordered-not-used (TONU) is coming your way. … True? Or did he just find somebody cheaper …

March 9, 2018