Class I need some help from the freight broker side. I have a new customer that will require HV insurance, since most carriers are only insured up to 100k, how do you usually tackle this? Contingent insurance policy or purchase on a per load basis. For extra credit; if you could also drop some referrals.

We have been getting hit hard with double brokering but, with the help of loading and receiving warehouses, we have been able to stop it. Thought we had all strategic processes in place until last week. Before Carrier A was loaded, we confirmed MC/DOT on the truck matched up. Sometime after pickup, our cargo was offloaded and loaded on to Carrier B who in turn delivered our freight. Although Carrier A's factoring company sent us an invoice, they advised we legally do not have to pay them as dispatch never submitted the load to them. Carrier A expressed frustration that I reached out to their factoring company. To find out, he had no intention of submitting this load to them and only did so after the Factoring Co called to find out what was going on. Carrier A & Carrier B have separate DOT/MC #'s, addresses, etc. Although separate, Carrier A is trying to justify his actions in passing on our load saying both carriers are owned by the same person. I did obtain the carrier packet from Carrier B and sure enough the W9 is signed by the same person who signed Carrier B's W9. If owner in fact owns both entities, this still does not provide a loophole to double broker and do not want to get caught in games when it comes to payment as both physically had a part in the load. Carrier B has yet to reach out requesting payment. Has anyone run into this type of scenario and if so, how did you handle resolution?

CN/CPKC are the only 2 rail lines in Canada. We call them the DUOPLOLY in Canada. IN 20 plus years have never had both rail lines go down at the same time. The Teamsters are the union for both rail lines and normally negotiate 3 years deals and in past their agreements have been 1 year apart. CPKC negotiations got delayed to bring them into 2024 same year as CN. CPKC has already advised they will NOT negotiate further, they will lock the union out Monday or Tuesday if they do not ratify. The rail lines expected like most of us in Canada that the CIRB Canadian Industrial Relations Board would make the rail lines essential. The CIRB did not, actually stated they are not essential and can strike. Dumbfounded as they move food, meat, pharma, grain, steel and all bulk exports overseas and to the USA. The rail lines want our Liberal Government to intervene. They expect after 3 days of being shut down the Feds will mandate all back to work. The 3 day shut down is part of the overall cost, the rail lines started shutting down this week not the 22nd as posted in all statements. The rail need a week to reposition and become fluid for every day they are down, hence the reason the $$ is much higher than only 3 days. My entire week as been planning trucks for contingency with our teams. Carriers smell blood after dealing with low rates since COVID. A FF asked us to pay $14,000 from BC to ON yesterday, normal rate with rail is $3000.00. We are trans loading and moving at $6000.00. For those who do not work with rail, stop asking carriers in Canada how they can justify the rates. All are affected and carriers are far more sophisticated as they are following the rail announcements

When onboarding a new carrier. which one of these email accounts would you TRUST that the carrier/driver is legit! LOL Gmail Yahoo MSN Mac AOL In my opinion it’s the AOL accounts we should trust. These usually are accounts for the driver with the 99 Peterbuilt from Alabama who still buys the country cds at the truck stops and is just ready for another load. The new scumbags in our industry use all the other email accounts… Because they have never heard of AOL! 😂 😝 😆

The story of inflation & cost to do business continues to get bleaker for our carrier friends out there. With most freight I see on the board barely being above this $2.27 operating cost estimate is the damage more then people are aware of to the carriers? https://www.ccjdigital.com/economic-trends/freight-demand/article/15678318/permile-cost-of-trucking-hit-record-high-in-2023?utm_medium=email&utm_content=06-26-2024&utm_campaign=CM_NL_CCJ+Daily&utm_source=CM_NL_CCJ+Daily&ust_id=3c8edb5b1c3638e951e9bedb13d445f98bb2419a&oly_enc_id=9629J8650390I5N