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Posted on 1/23/17 at 12:43 pm to CHEDBALLZ
Cut throat, high stress, and you are depending on a bunch of methheads to deliver your shipment in one piece and on time.
Worked for a brokerage for 4 years. Loved it and hated it. Loved the pressure but hated dealing with the idiots.
Had a methhead come off a high on a time sensitive shipment. He went missing and we found him in his truck at a TA 30 minutes from where he loaded a week later
Worked for a brokerage for 4 years. Loved it and hated it. Loved the pressure but hated dealing with the idiots.
Had a methhead come off a high on a time sensitive shipment. He went missing and we found him in his truck at a TA 30 minutes from where he loaded a week later
This post was edited on 1/23/17 at 12:45 pm
Posted on 1/23/17 at 12:50 pm to beebefootballfan
Most of our runs were local so we had about a dozen or so guys who were dependable and very easy to work for.
Posted on 1/23/17 at 12:58 pm to PapaPogey
Also. If it is CHR don't go to an already established office. It's hard to hit your bonus numbers if he office has already plateaued.
Posted on 1/23/17 at 1:06 pm to beebefootballfan
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Also. If it is CHR don't go to an already established office. It's hard to hit your bonus numbers if he office has already plateaued.
Yes. You do not want to start a brokerage career with a 3PL in the top 10 in revenue. Good accounts are few and far between. They will tell you "there's so much freight out there and tens of thousands of customers that haven't been called." It's about impossible to find a decent prospect that hasn't been called/set up.
My advice would be to get on with a smaller but mature company possibly with an asset side. Think $50-$100mil with 20-50 brokers. That way you will also get personal hands on help from managers or coworkers. Larger companies will throw new people to the wolves to see who survives.
This post was edited on 1/23/17 at 1:07 pm
Posted on 1/23/17 at 1:08 pm to The Tom Arnold
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My advice would be to get on with a smaller but mature company possibly with an asset side. Think $50-$100mil with 20-50 brokers. That way you will also get personal hands on help from managers or coworkers
That's the situation I was in, but even smaller scale. I think there were 4 coordinators and 3 full time logistics sales guys
Posted on 1/23/17 at 1:17 pm to PapaPogey
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That's the situation I was in, but even smaller scale. I think there were 4 coordinators and 3 full time logistics sales guys
Nothing wrong with that. Just might be a slightly harder sell and maybe more paperwork with carrier set ups (as opposed to already having 15-20k carriers already set up).
I brought a buddy into the biz a couple years ago. He left the company to go somewhere with less than ten employees and was hitting $30k/month in profit a year later. If you are a good salesperson and can stay organized, you can make whatever you want.
I have another friend that is an agent and just makes a flat 65%... works about 20 hrs a week from home and makes around $100k.
Posted on 1/23/17 at 1:23 pm to The Tom Arnold
I got an offer earlier last year from Landstar but it wasn't something I was interested in.
Posted on 1/23/17 at 1:35 pm to PapaPogey
I used to work for Landstar
Posted on 1/23/17 at 1:39 pm to PapaPogey
Bengal?
Posted on 1/23/17 at 1:40 pm to blzr
How was it? The guy who I met with just didn't make it sound promising in the short term. I'm okay with making okay money for short term if the pay off is good, but not bad money short term.
Posted on 1/23/17 at 1:40 pm to Big Pun
Yes
Posted on 1/23/17 at 2:25 pm to The Tom Arnold
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I have another friend that is an agent and just makes a flat 65%... works about 20 hrs a week from home and makes around $100k.
Yea you are a textbook OT'er.
Posted on 1/23/17 at 3:16 pm to blzr
Im a carrier with some trucks that was looking to get in with Landstar as a broker on the side. Just wasnt sure how to get started. I have a low low MC number and do not want to get a high brokering MC number. Just wasnt sure on where to start. CH Robinson and Landstar are my go to's.
Posted on 1/23/17 at 3:35 pm to Whodat1978
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Im a carrier with some trucks that was looking to get in with Landstar as a broker on the side. Just wasnt sure how to get started. I have a low low MC number and do not want to get a high brokering MC number. Just wasnt sure on where to start. CH Robinson and Landstar are my go to's.
Just call up the carrier and give them your DOT information and a lot of other stuff they ask for...Them you tell them your lanes you are in need of and try to make a deal.
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