Yes you are correct. Yet the average truck driver is not business savvy enough or willing to put in the skin to force a change. Currently most with their own authority are simply trying to survive. To make actual change. Will take getting the lawmaker's involved. Good luck as they already have lobbyists from every industry courting them. It is going to take a drastic downfall of the industry to get noticed. As it has happened in other industries. Like banking, real estate, etc. Then the lawmaker's will bring forth new regulations. That will negatively affect the little operators, while the big operators, business as usual.
@gettingitdone1015 there should be a unified system so that both carriers and brokers and customers are all rated on same platform, throw every DOT station on there and every DOT agent. There is just so much dumb in the Industry that it cannot keep getting more fragmentation, has to be joint effor by all to resolve this issue. Divide and fail Collaborate and succeed
I quit after 10 years. My last job was when I got charged for "Personal Conveyance", My truck got impounded, I got locked up for a few weeks in Texas, I was forced to go to court in a state I do not live in, and my lawyer won the case as I sued the city for $100k. I was forced to fly airline back home, only to be forced to return to Texas, because my company gave my truck to someone else, and they put all my personal property in black plastic bags and many of my things were stolen. And thats the day I quit trucking forever. I spent 10 years tolerating the trucking industry bllshyte, disrespects from DM's & dispatchers., having to fight each week to get my pay, didn't get paid for waiting several hours to several days of layovers, DM's constantly forcing me to bobtail not earning anything. I got seriously tired. Drivers need to protest and bring ALL trucks to congress in Washington until all drivers get proper pay and respect in this industry.
What all truckers need to do is bring nationwide trucks to Washington, and no one moves their trucks until the laws are changed. Drivers are being ripped off and abused, and brokers should be abolished from the industry.
I agree but it will take all of us to make a difference. Like none of us drive anywhere for two weeks until the changes take place. Hurting there pocket is the only way.
I dont think so, it's more likely that this is collective negligence and ignorant self interests. This is really what you get when you so heavily promote individualism, everyone ends up doing their own thing to the point the entire system begins to contradict itself. This is a big example of why regulations are necessary and why it needs to be done through government so that there is a guaranteed standard across the board.
@@boringopr4369 did you fail reading in school? What part of "I think" confused you? That was my take and is completely valid when you understand psychology and business dynamics. Everyone is doing their own thing and it's all conflicting with one another. Like how we have Ai to read job applications now which throw away majority of people because they don't meet insane standards or how many large companies are putting enoloyee requests despite not needing people just cus they want a way to fire and replace someone instantly. Everything is conflicting cus there is no regulation
Drivers, try to build yourself a clientele with shippers' manufacturers receivers every time you pull up. Ask for names, phone numbers, and information. Stop giving power to these lazy brokers.
You want an inspection? Put a manual switch on 1 of your headlights. Turn it off when you go through the scale. When they come out to inspect you turn it back on. All you have to do is stand out.
We have run into this problem lately. Owner/Operator for 20 plus years and we have lost multiple good loads due not to having an updated inspection in multiple years.
Run 81N in Mountain Top Pa, 81S Watertown NY, go 71mph right before the 476 exit 81S in PA, etc. Be polite and you will get your inspection that will not increase your insurance rates. Any questions just ask. Wash your friggin truck and keep it nice inside. I caught the Dot guy checking out my custom interior.
It used to be if you didn't have a ton of inspections it ment you had your truck trailer and drivers things in line and up to par wtf is wrong here, oh it's all about money and control !!!
If you want a Voluntary Inspection, you can stop and request it at Nesbit Weight Station in Mississippi, on I-55, MM 285, NB and SB, south of Memphis, TN. I had an Involuntary Inspection a year ago at this location and the officer said, that I can request a Voluntary Inspection here any time. So, you can try. Good luck!!!
This country is going down right before our eyes. Now brokers are dictating whether a company gets loads or not. This country is allowing brokers (scammers) to do whatever they want at the comfort of their own home, office or vehicle and the hard working independent men and women of the transportation industry is SUFFERING for it. It’s ruff out here trying to maintain your business and make a living to maintain your family.
Tortious interference is also applicable for the carrier assure company and anyone that uses it. If dot refuses to do voluntary inspections then they cannot rate you based on lack of inspections. And doing so maligns your reputation and causes a loss of business.
Come to the weigh stations on 84 in Connecticut. They're doing inspections all day everyday, three four trucks at a time lol. Just bring a loaded trailer
I’m getting sick of driving a truck Just maxed out my credit All my expenses are higher I cut my spending and now trying to save I burn through money while I’m out there driving
I agree . Before aound 2 yrs back I would book a load 95% of the time, now some brokers say to me I have no inspections so therefore I can't book any loads with them. And actually I got an inspection level 3 by a trooper so hopefully everything will change. But if you have no inspections you will have a hard time booking loadd
4:21 I had this exact same thing happen to me. I had 1 drug test good in January the. Volunteered for a 10 panel drug test for them 2 months ago. I also already have my clearing house with queries. It was tough and anyone should be ready for a dot audit.
Freight brokerage is a biggest fraud in the US, it's 2025 , get rid of those unnecessary middlemen out of industry or inspect audit those scamers at least. Y'all have no clue how brokers are the biggest issue in trucking, focus on them instead!
All this does is it down rates the good drivers who have pride and respect and care for their rig, and makes it easier for the broker to force them to compete with cheaper haulers.
THANK YOU GUYS . GREAT FULL CYCLE ANALYSIS ON DIFFERENT ISSUES ENDAGERING THE LIVELIHOOD OF ALL TRUCK DRIVERS , FREIGHT GURD , INSPECTIONS AND SO ON...
This is EXACTLY what I've been dealing with for the last 4 years. My last inspection was Dec 2020. Since the BatFever, everyone was scared of their own shadows, so if you were legal, they would not inspect you. Half of the loads I call on, they won't use me because of it. Every port I've called said you can not request inspections. They have to initiate it. I got inspected in Trinidad, CO this morning and the officer was perplexed that I was frickin ecstatic about it.. I didn't even care if I got any violations. I'm sick of the brokers using inspections as criteria for determining carrier fitness. I always tell them that that's the equivalent of me requiring that the broker have an irs audit.. It's pretty dumb. I understand why they do it. It's to prove you have physical assets, but there are numerous other ways to prove that.. Carrier 411 is a freaking nightmare.. If you try to call them, they IMMEDIATELY block your number if they know you are a carrier. You can not communicate with them..
If you think these complaints are going to change anything because FMCSA will see this and change anything you are not understanding why these mechanisms exist. Mega carriers have meetings with FMCSA where they discuss and suggest new rules and regulations to squeeze O/O and small companies that work off spot market. All of this is a way to ensure they control how many companies enter the market to ensure mega carriers are not too affected by it.
Round and round we go. Where it stops, nobody knows… How truckers allowed brokers to be the boss when you’re supposed to be your own boss??? Everybody else make all the money while truckers make pennies?? CRAP!!
Sounds like a violation of the Declaration of independence. Life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Running your truck is the pursuit of your happiness. ??? Loophole maybe IDK???
I’ve been in business 7 years I keep my truck and trailer clean and polished I don’t drive stupid I dress appropriately boots jeans and collared shirt I have no inspections in 7 years i told a broker a week ago in 7 years I’ve had no inspections doesn’t that alone say something about my operation
LOL, you see my collard shirt in the video!! I am glad to hear someone other than me still takes pride in their equipment and how they look. I can report I keep getting pulled into scales (prepass keeps going red) and I even keep getting pulled out of the bypass lane and onto the scale. Still no inspections.
I’ve been a owner operator under my own authority for 3 1/2 years. I keep my truck super clean. I Have had 3 inspections. First one was after six months of starting my business. A local state trooper sent me a email asking me for all the stuff he described above, my logs, BOL related to the HOS on the logs, and my Clearinghouse info. I passed it 100%. The second inspection was about a year later, it was on the side of the road, I was hauling stones and according to the DOT officer I should have corner protection for all the straps. He was 100% correct but I told him that I was going to the first truck stop and get some more. He let me go with a warning. The last one was in 2023 and it was on a weight station 😮, I passed in flying colors. 😊
As drivers, inspections of the last thing we want because these officers will write you a ticket for a headlight out even though you can walk over there and look at the headlight and it is obviously on and working. And furthermore that 'ticket' that they write is just a warning that in order to contest, you have to submit a DataQ that goes through that officer and his supervisor. The last thing either of them want to do is go back on that ticket that they wrote and create a question of their integrity.
1) score of 77 is the score which means you got the score which is assigned for carriers randomly get inspected, this has been in place for long time. you should get an inspection at some point , #2) throw a few hand warmers on your trailer axle, it will throw the sensor at scale for hot brakes and youll get inspected
I have a serious question, HOW are you semi owner ops making any money by accepting $2 per mile? I’m a hotshot owner op who easily gets $2 per mile and that’s still not enough. How the hell are yall surviving? You certainly not THRIVING @ $2
The market as a whole shows what freight moves at and which rates, so the fact that someone picks up a $4 load and moves within 200 mile radius has no effect on long haul or every day operations. If you ain't making a minimum gross of $1000/day and taking cheaper freight, you are the problem. Everyone just needs to stop hiring Dispatch services, if you don't have what it takes to run the business that means you know nothing about it. If you don't have what it takes to service your own vehicle, you got no business being a owner operator that takes crap rates and helps kill the market.
Man they are making it to where there will only be company drivers or lease slaves. 3 year lease. Payment due everywhere but oh.... no paying in advance.
Don’t get the load from any brokers that require trucks inspection, so many brokers out there don’t need trucks inspection, my truck got inspection from NM DOT, but I don’t book the load from any broker required trucks inspection, that stupid.
Been trucking since 1998 the trucking industry has changed so much they are just adding BS after BS and things like this are just destroying the trucking industry.
The sad thing is that, as carriers, we continue to have to jump through hoops with these brokers. And yes the owner of Carrier411 tried to screw carriers but also will screw his own clients. I will be speaking to my state officials to see what can be done.
I-90 eastbound spearfish SD scale, I-80 westbound Lincoln NE scale, I-81 southbound Greenville TN scale. These scales are inspecting constantly. Try them out if you want an inspection
In other words you need to have a shitty truck to get inspected and then live with the black eye record you get after getting inspected. Is that what this is all boiling down to?
2:16 So if you have to be a customer to talk to them, how exactly do they get to RATE you if you aren't a customer?? Seems like there might be something illegal about them getting to rate you and MAKE MONEY by rating you, and yet denying you the voice in questioning that rating!! Jest say'in!!
It's official. Trucking is not trucking anymore. Crazy how ove witnessed the shift in no less than 8 yrs. I guarantee that this new freight guard is a Mega carrier brain child. Who makes it to where you can fraudulent have a stop put on you by a broker. As he said... kept hanging up in his face. No recourse but driver gets the freight guard. Pure bull sitting on a toilet. Asking for detention pay gets a freight guard??!! Wtf!
@JimmyD6977 you can try and sometimes get lucky but most won't work with you without a few yrs of established history and if your a broker you can broker loads to yourself and establish that history.
Try the Arizona Mcgrirville rest stop on I-17 south bound south of Flagstaff Az. The Dot has a scale in the rest stop ramp and about every other truck gets inspected almost everyday!
It's a scam brokers are the problem. Don't use brokers and force the shippers to deal direct with the trucks. Like it use to be. I started in 1980. Trucking went to shit when the brokers showed up.
Started a trucking company then we lasted a year before the rates dropped and it just wasn’t feasible. So I understand this problem had this same issue for 9 months . So you have to run through states that run DOT numbers especially Arkansas ; Tennessee; every time you go through a scale house they’re going to do one of three things or all, check your DOT on the side of your truck your IFTA sticker and truck weight some scale houses do them all and some do one or they just randomly select. I was told by one DOT officer that they do inspections for new carriers by number they know which number where issued when. Another weird way to get an inspection is go through a speed trap with a state highway officer. I went through a speed trap coming down 84 in NY and was pulled over it was a very steep hill I was very polite and he did a Level 2 on me and I told my nephew that is actually a good thing. Don’t suggest you do this in every state only thoose that give warnings. I always scare the companies I work with and tell them in a sullen voice that I got inspected and then tell them that I passed, lots of companies even give you an inspection bonus. I know the feeling of being your own authority it’s like they want you to fail. Also if you work with a good dispatcher who specializes in working with new companies they can help by listing your company in certain places and they have relationships with brokers, relationships are everything l. But of course they charge a fee but your also paying for their experience and relationships Good Luck We’re all Rooting For Your Success 🎉
As much as I can understand that people don't like this change, this is 100% positive for the whole industry in getting the cheap unsafe drivers off the road and bringing up the prices for freight. If you are afraid of the DOT scales or MOT Inspection Stations (Canada), you have no business driving anything bigger than a Ford Ranger. Some of us out there have safe trucks, we do proper inspections and refuse to drive junk on the road. That's how it should be.
When trump gets in...im done with trucking..going back to oil field in wv....gas well tender payes 100 k or more with company truck .....screw truck and the DOT
I was trying to get a load ....they wanted a picture of Driver, truck showing DOT number and name of company.....i had 2 names (owner and who leased to), they refused to give me the load......PEALED THE STICKERS FOR "OWNER" OFF MY TRUCK just to get the load......still denied the load!!! Called their company recruiter..... That company had owners with both names on the truck, corrected the broker internally......STILL DENIED THE LOAD......
I've just opened a company a half a year ago to be right , and in last two months I've got inspected twice level 3 in Colorado and Lvl 1 in CALI both clean , but still cant cover much loads with just because the most brokers are asking at least 365 days in business. As a suggestion to the guy who operates this company I'll suggest to make a same route for a little bit this way chances to be stopped at weight stations are increasing 10x times , because of that's how algorithm works , the more you cross same WS than more chances to be picked by random inspection .I've been doing OR-TX for a month (I've got inspected in CO ) after i did OR-CA for a months ( I've got inspected recently)
@supertruckertom ah ok it's your story........I guess it depends on the type of freight and the broker. This what I have found and the equipment you have
Are you having the same problems with needing a voluntary inspection?
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Come to illinois they will inspect you all day long
hey tell this douchebag ill haul whatever loads i want he can go f* ck himself
As I keep saying for 25+ years driving a truck in America: TRUCK DRIVERS HAVE NO BALLS, GROW SOME BALLS AND PUT A STOP TO THE BS IN THIS INDUSTRY.
Sure right!
@@belle6071 he is right. Tbh
50 yrs
Yes you are correct. Yet the average truck driver is not business savvy enough or willing to put in the skin to force a change. Currently most with their own authority are simply trying to survive. To make actual change. Will take getting the lawmaker's involved. Good luck as they already have lobbyists from every industry courting them. It is going to take a drastic downfall of the industry to get noticed. As it has happened in other industries. Like banking, real estate, etc.
Then the lawmaker's will bring forth new regulations. That will negatively affect the little operators, while the big operators, business as usual.
So you drive Canada, 🇺🇸 and Mexico? All three have different rules.
Carriers should come up with their own Broker 411. when Broker doesn't pay we make sure every carrier know about it
File the BOLs on the shipper. They have to pay the person holding the BOLs.
What about TONU? When they run a truck for 2 hours to get to shipper to load 4.5k lbs and then it e ds up being 45k?
YES!!!
@gettingitdone1015 there should be a unified system so that both carriers and brokers and customers are all rated on same platform, throw every DOT station on there and every DOT agent. There is just so much dumb in the Industry that it cannot keep getting more fragmentation, has to be joint effor by all to resolve this issue.
Divide and fail
Collaborate and succeed
Someone said creating a phone app. Even little kids have created apps with parents help.
I don't even wannna be a trucker no more after all this BS
Im just looking to finish and retire and not die holding the wheel
I quit after 10 years. My last job was when I got charged for "Personal Conveyance", My truck got impounded, I got locked up for a few weeks in Texas,
I was forced to go to court in a state I do not live in, and my lawyer won the case as I sued the city for $100k.
I was forced to fly airline back home, only to be forced to return to Texas, because my company gave my truck to someone else,
and they put all my personal property in black plastic bags and many of my things were stolen. And thats the day I quit trucking forever.
I spent 10 years tolerating the trucking industry bllshyte, disrespects from DM's & dispatchers., having to fight each week to get my pay,
didn't get paid for waiting several hours to several days of layovers, DM's constantly forcing me to bobtail not earning anything. I got seriously tired.
Drivers need to protest and bring ALL trucks to congress in Washington until all drivers get proper pay and respect in this industry.
They just want to put you out of business!
Just blacks and foreigns
Brokers suck. Cons and crooks
ya Suck the life out of trucking .
Specially TQL
Guys we need to come together and start fighting back against all this abuse
What all truckers need to do is bring nationwide trucks to Washington, and no one moves their trucks until the laws are changed.
Drivers are being ripped off and abused, and brokers should be abolished from the industry.
I agree but it will take all of us to make a difference. Like none of us drive anywhere for two weeks until the changes take place. Hurting there pocket is the only way.
They're DEFINITELY trying to destroy trucking!
@@lelotruck138 they’re working on it
Of course they are this ass 🕳️ s want the future to be driver free with self driving trucks
I dont think so, it's more likely that this is collective negligence and ignorant self interests. This is really what you get when you so heavily promote individualism, everyone ends up doing their own thing to the point the entire system begins to contradict itself. This is a big example of why regulations are necessary and why it needs to be done through government so that there is a guaranteed standard across the board.
@@WhoToldYouThis yeah dude who told you this
@@boringopr4369 did you fail reading in school? What part of "I think" confused you? That was my take and is completely valid when you understand psychology and business dynamics. Everyone is doing their own thing and it's all conflicting with one another. Like how we have Ai to read job applications now which throw away majority of people because they don't meet insane standards or how many large companies are putting enoloyee requests despite not needing people just cus they want a way to fire and replace someone instantly. Everything is conflicting cus there is no regulation
Drivers, try to build yourself a clientele with shippers' manufacturers receivers every time you pull up. Ask for names, phone numbers, and information. Stop giving power to these lazy brokers.
You want an inspection? Put a manual switch on 1 of your headlights. Turn it off when you go through the scale. When they come out to inspect you turn it back on. All you have to do is stand out.
If there's freight guard. There needs to be a BROKER guard.
Been trucking since 1987. Easier to herd cats than to get truckers to unite.
@@1Surt truth.all it is a big ass can of tuna for cats
So who is doing inspection on brokers??? We need better $$ per mile and stop making these holding all the cards...
We have run into this problem lately. Owner/Operator for 20 plus years and we have lost multiple good loads due not to having an updated inspection in multiple years.
Run 81N in Mountain Top Pa, 81S Watertown NY, go 71mph right before the 476 exit 81S in PA, etc. Be polite and you will get your inspection that will not increase your insurance rates. Any questions just ask. Wash your friggin truck and keep it nice inside. I caught the Dot guy checking out my custom interior.
It used to be if you didn't have a ton of inspections it ment you had your truck trailer and drivers things in line and up to par wtf is wrong here, oh it's all about money and control !!!
Maybe the best interview I've seen on this channel , & there have been many good ones ! Thank You
Wow, thank you!
More levels of scams
U want an inspection just don’t stop before the scale😅
Go through the red light
Especially the stop sign just before you drive on the scale.
Oh you’ll get inspection for sure doing that! 😂
Good one 😂
I am having that issue no dot wants to inspect me…. Sucks man. I am thinking of just making crazy faces while driving to see if they see me lol
That freight gaurd is a Black Ball! In putting u out of business!
If you want a Voluntary Inspection, you can stop and request it at Nesbit Weight Station in Mississippi, on I-55, MM 285, NB and SB, south of Memphis, TN. I had an Involuntary Inspection a year ago at this location and the officer said, that I can request a Voluntary Inspection here any time. So, you can try.
Good luck!!!
This country is going down right before our eyes. Now brokers are dictating whether a company gets loads or not. This country is allowing brokers (scammers) to do whatever they want at the comfort of their own home, office or vehicle and the hard working independent men and women of the transportation industry is SUFFERING for it. It’s ruff out here trying to maintain your business and make a living to maintain your family.
If your taking loads under 3$ a mile. Your the problem 😂
I'm taking everything! 😠
@@BIGONE81you wearing your equipment out for low pay. When repairs come around that’s gone bite you in the ahh
If your an illegal your the problem
Yeah tell that to the Somalian cdl mafia
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It seems like a libel and slander or defamation lawsuit against brokers might end this madness.
Tortious interference is also applicable for the carrier assure company and anyone that uses it. If dot refuses to do voluntary inspections then they cannot rate you based on lack of inspections. And doing so maligns your reputation and causes a loss of business.
Great information from Alex once again !!
Come to the weigh stations on 84 in Connecticut. They're doing inspections all day everyday, three four trucks at a time lol. Just bring a loaded trailer
You right 😂
😂😂😂
I’m getting sick of driving a truck
Just maxed out my credit
All my expenses are higher
I cut my spending and now trying to save
I burn through money while I’m out there driving
Quit snorting crank and get rid of those high maintence beetches.
I feel you man you aren’t the only one! This shit really sucks!
The brokers are being given too much power over the industry…
If you need an inspection just take your truck to Bald Knob, AR on route 67 there is always a DOT officer inspecting trucks, especially on a Saturday.
That's another reason im happy to be sitting on the porch.
TRUCKERS NEED TO UNITE!!!!!!!!!!!!
big companies don’t want new companies
I agree . Before aound 2 yrs back I would book a load 95% of the time, now some brokers say to me I have no inspections so therefore I can't book any loads with them. And actually I got an inspection level 3 by a trooper so hopefully everything will change. But if you have no inspections you will have a hard time booking loadd
4:21 I had this exact same thing happen to me. I had 1 drug test good in January the. Volunteered for a 10 panel drug test for them 2 months ago. I also already have my clearing house with queries.
It was tough and anyone should be ready for a dot audit.
Freight brokerage is a biggest fraud in the US, it's 2025 , get rid of those unnecessary middlemen out of industry or inspect audit those scamers at least. Y'all have no clue how brokers are the biggest issue in trucking, focus on them instead!
But do you know it was the old timers that wanted the brokers that’s why they are here
All this does is it down rates the good drivers who have pride and respect and care for their rig, and makes it easier for the broker to force them to compete with cheaper haulers.
Trucking is getting to strict to many regulations and rules and bs for “ safety “
I live in the northeast. It’s real hard to get inspections up here! Weight stations always closed
THANK YOU GUYS .
GREAT FULL CYCLE ANALYSIS ON DIFFERENT ISSUES ENDAGERING THE LIVELIHOOD OF ALL TRUCK DRIVERS , FREIGHT GURD , INSPECTIONS AND SO ON...
You want INSPECTION? Go to Pennsylvania scale and give them the middle finger.
This is EXACTLY what I've been dealing with for the last 4 years. My last inspection was Dec 2020. Since the BatFever, everyone was scared of their own shadows, so if you were legal, they would not inspect you. Half of the loads I call on, they won't use me because of it. Every port I've called said you can not request inspections. They have to initiate it. I got inspected in Trinidad, CO this morning and the officer was perplexed that I was frickin ecstatic about it.. I didn't even care if I got any violations. I'm sick of the brokers using inspections as criteria for determining carrier fitness. I always tell them that that's the equivalent of me requiring that the broker have an irs audit.. It's pretty dumb. I understand why they do it. It's to prove you have physical assets, but there are numerous other ways to prove that.. Carrier 411 is a freaking nightmare.. If you try to call them, they IMMEDIATELY block your number if they know you are a carrier. You can not communicate with them..
Elon needs to buy them and fix them!!!!!
I’m 3 months in. Really grateful I already passed a level 1 inspection. We need reforms in this industry. That’s without a doubt.
Find opposite direction weigh stations close by and just do circles untill they get curious and pull u in lol
It's sad that they're doing this, and all these disrespectful, dishonorable people do wrongly but no repercussions.
If you think these complaints are going to change anything because FMCSA will see this and change anything you are not understanding why these mechanisms exist. Mega carriers have meetings with FMCSA where they discuss and suggest new rules and regulations to squeeze O/O and small companies that work off spot market. All of this is a way to ensure they control how many companies enter the market to ensure mega carriers are not too affected by it.
Round and round we go. Where it stops, nobody knows… How truckers allowed brokers to be the boss when you’re supposed to be your own boss??? Everybody else make all the money while truckers make pennies?? CRAP!!
Ky sitting at truck stops at night popping inspection. Only 24 west bound lane. Idk why just one lane. Calvert city 🤷♂️
I got the Lyon County scale to give me an inspection because I had the same issue the guy is talking about
Sounds like a violation of the Declaration of independence. Life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Running your truck is the pursuit of your happiness. ??? Loophole maybe IDK???
We can change all the rules if we just park our trucks. Simple solution. But we will never come together and do that.
Park the trucks with a quick and decisive plan of action…I guess the problem is collectively coming to one in agreement
I’ve been in business 7 years I keep my truck and trailer clean and polished I don’t drive stupid I dress appropriately boots jeans and collared shirt I have no inspections in 7 years i told a broker a week ago in 7 years I’ve had no inspections doesn’t that alone say something about my operation
LOL, you see my collard shirt in the video!! I am glad to hear someone other than me still takes pride in their equipment and how they look. I can report I keep getting pulled into scales (prepass keeps going red) and I even keep getting pulled out of the bypass lane and onto the scale. Still no inspections.
Why would anyone do trucking now?
Man sounds like a hard industry to be successful
I’ve been a owner operator under my own authority for 3 1/2 years. I keep my truck super clean. I Have had 3 inspections. First one was after six months of starting my business. A local state trooper sent me a email asking me for all the stuff he described above, my logs, BOL related to the HOS on the logs, and my Clearinghouse info. I passed it 100%. The second inspection was about a year later, it was on the side of the road, I was hauling stones and according to the DOT officer I should have corner protection for all the straps. He was 100% correct but I told him that I was going to the first truck stop and get some more. He let me go with a warning. The last one was in 2023 and it was on a weight station 😮, I passed in flying colors. 😊
Take your IFTA stickers off you'll get pulled of often
As drivers, inspections of the last thing we want because these officers will write you a ticket for a headlight out even though you can walk over there and look at the headlight and it is obviously on and working. And furthermore that 'ticket' that they write is just a warning that in order to contest, you have to submit a DataQ that goes through that officer and his supervisor. The last thing either of them want to do is go back on that ticket that they wrote and create a question of their integrity.
1) score of 77 is the score which means you got the score which is assigned for carriers randomly get inspected, this has been in place for long time. you should get an inspection at some point , #2) throw a few hand warmers on your trailer axle, it will throw the sensor at scale for hot brakes and youll get inspected
Brokers are the bad guys
I have a serious question, HOW are you semi owner ops making any money by accepting $2 per mile? I’m a hotshot owner op who easily gets $2 per mile and that’s still not enough. How the hell are yall surviving? You certainly not THRIVING @ $2
The market as a whole shows what freight moves at and which rates, so the fact that someone picks up a $4 load and moves within 200 mile radius has no effect on long haul or every day operations.
If you ain't making a minimum gross of $1000/day and taking cheaper freight, you are the problem. Everyone just needs to stop hiring Dispatch services, if you don't have what it takes to run the business that means you know nothing about it.
If you don't have what it takes to service your own vehicle, you got no business being a owner operator that takes crap rates and helps kill the market.
more weight
Ahh yes more burden on the trucker with less pay and respect. Gotta love it.
Man they are making it to where there will only be company drivers or lease slaves.
3 year lease. Payment due everywhere but oh.... no paying in advance.
Don’t get the load from any brokers that require trucks inspection, so many brokers out there don’t need trucks inspection, my truck got inspection from NM DOT, but I don’t book the load from any broker required trucks inspection, that stupid.
What are you talking about? Allen Lund is one of the cheapest brokers, a lot worse than TQL
The fraud is the BROKERS!!
Been trucking since 1998 the trucking industry has changed so much they are just adding BS after BS and things like this are just destroying the trucking industry.
The FMCSA takes brides from mega carriers , shippers and lobbyists
I have this issue this proper these days thank you for your video
West Virginia Michigan Virginia Tennessee new Mexico Missouri... they'll be glad too inspect you. For free
The sad thing is that, as carriers, we continue to have to jump through hoops with these brokers. And yes the owner of Carrier411 tried to screw carriers but also will screw his own clients. I will be speaking to my state officials to see what can be done.
I-90 eastbound spearfish SD scale, I-80 westbound Lincoln NE scale, I-81 southbound Greenville TN scale. These scales are inspecting constantly. Try them out if you want an inspection
Let's stop hauling than. See what brokers do. Let's go Truckers strikes
So you rate carriers based on their inspection but you give them an F rating without any inspections to justify this rating?
I don’t have road trips inspiration for the past 3 years because I keep my truck in good shape
In other words you need to have a shitty truck to get inspected and then live with the black eye record you get after getting inspected. Is that what this is all boiling down to?
2:16 So if you have to be a customer to talk to them, how exactly do they get to RATE you if you aren't a customer?? Seems like there might be something illegal about them getting to rate you and MAKE MONEY by rating you, and yet denying you the voice in questioning that rating!! Jest say'in!!
It's official.
Trucking is not trucking anymore. Crazy how ove witnessed the shift in no less than 8 yrs.
I guarantee that this new freight guard is a Mega carrier brain child. Who makes it to where you can fraudulent have a stop put on you by a broker.
As he said... kept hanging up in his face. No recourse but driver gets the freight guard.
Pure bull sitting on a toilet.
Asking for detention pay gets a freight guard??!! Wtf!
The answer is get a brokers license and broker your own loads.
Why do you need a brokers license? Get your own customers. It’s that simple.
@JimmyD6977 you can try and sometimes get lucky but most won't work with you without a few yrs of established history and if your a broker you can broker loads to yourself and establish that history.
What a dumb comment! You do not understand how and why the trucking is where it is!
As if you don't have enough stuff to deal with??
@JimmyD6977 Dude you think it's easy to walk in to a shipper and pick up freight?? Alot of time the home office is no where near where you live.
I’m having the same issue I promise this is no lie
Try the Arizona Mcgrirville rest stop on I-17 south bound south of Flagstaff Az. The Dot has a scale in the rest stop ramp and about every other truck gets inspected almost everyday!
Thank you God i got off the road after 15yrs
It's a scam brokers are the problem. Don't use brokers and force the shippers to deal direct with the trucks. Like it use to be. I started in 1980. Trucking went to shit when the brokers showed up.
A new level of broker firm needs to form..
I gave up my cdl 2 months ago.F it
I don't blame you. I'm going local and starting college soon. This career is overrated and over regulated
Yes, I understand trucking is not for everyone, it's become very regulated
how do you give it up?....i still have mine
Texas DPS still do inspections you just gotta call them. I just saw a video on their FB page doing inspections to a trucking company in midland Texas.
Started a trucking company then we lasted a year before the rates dropped and it just wasn’t feasible. So I understand this problem had this same issue for 9 months . So you have to run through states that run DOT numbers especially Arkansas ; Tennessee; every time you go through a scale house they’re going to do one of three things or all, check your DOT on the side of your truck your IFTA sticker and truck weight some scale houses do them all and some do one or they just randomly select. I was told by one DOT officer that they do inspections for new carriers by number they know which number where issued when.
Another weird way to get an inspection is go through a speed trap with a state highway officer. I went through a speed trap coming down 84 in NY and was pulled over it was a very steep hill I was very polite and he did a
Level 2 on me and I told my nephew that is actually a good thing. Don’t suggest you do this in every state only thoose that give warnings.
I always scare the companies I work with and tell them in a sullen voice that I got inspected and then tell them that I passed, lots of companies even give you an inspection bonus.
I know the feeling of being your own authority it’s like they want you to fail. Also if you work with a good dispatcher who specializes in working with new companies they can help by listing your company in certain places and they have relationships with brokers, relationships are everything l. But of course they charge a fee but your also paying for their experience and relationships
Good Luck We’re all Rooting For Your Success 🎉
The federal government doesn’t want owner ops that’s another reason why they are doing what they do.
As much as I can understand that people don't like this change, this is 100% positive for the whole industry in getting the cheap unsafe drivers off the road and bringing up the prices for freight. If you are afraid of the DOT scales or MOT Inspection Stations (Canada), you have no business driving anything bigger than a Ford Ranger. Some of us out there have safe trucks, we do proper inspections and refuse to drive junk on the road. That's how it should be.
They are still let's you ask for volunteer inspections, just had one done in La.
When trump gets in...im done with trucking..going back to oil field in wv....gas well tender payes 100 k or more with company truck .....screw truck and the DOT
I was trying to get a load ....they wanted a picture of Driver, truck showing DOT number and name of company.....i had 2 names (owner and who leased to), they refused to give me the load......PEALED THE STICKERS FOR "OWNER" OFF MY TRUCK just to get the load......still denied the load!!! Called their company recruiter.....
That company had owners with both names on the truck, corrected the broker internally......STILL DENIED THE LOAD......
Normally when they start asking for dot pictures and other bullshit just leave that load alone
We have 2 driver left after paper log gone they need level 1 inspection to get a load
Want a inspection, go to Cali. Cottonwood, Weed, Blyth or Nipton. Those scale houses love to pull ppl in, along with OK, MN, some of NY.
You may try va on 81 or va on 95 on the border with nc. They would not disappoint you, believe
$2 per mile, how do you survive with a rate like that?
barely
Make more money
Get rid of expenses
Cut spending
That’s where I’m at
Every thing cost $200-$500 or more
This is why we need to organize
Excellent vid Alex but you hard to hear.
It's getting crazy for the o/o in the trucking industry
I've just opened a company a half a year ago to be right , and in last two months I've got inspected twice level 3 in Colorado and Lvl 1 in CALI both clean , but still cant cover much loads with just because the most brokers are asking at least 365 days in business. As a suggestion to the guy who operates this company I'll suggest to make a same route for a little bit this way chances to be stopped at weight stations are increasing 10x times , because of that's how algorithm works , the more you cross same WS than more chances to be picked by random inspection .I've been doing OR-TX for a month (I've got inspected in CO ) after i did OR-CA for a months ( I've got inspected recently)
Its time for this sh't to stop. The brokers you stated are NOT YHE HIGHER FREIGHT
The highest freight is not available through brokers.
@supertruckertom where is it available other than direct customer acquisition?
@supertruckertom ah ok it's your story........I guess it depends on the type of freight and the broker. This what I have found and the equipment you have
I never heard of anyone being turned down for a load from a shiper, Byer or broker because of no inspection.
Another scam and another way of taking money from truck drivers, this career is going to hell.
Put some duct tape on the truck and don’t wash it. Blow your nose when you’re pulling in -you’ll get pulled over.😂