LOL No. California.
Yes I know about Brokers. When the freight is good, every morning starts out with messages from headquarters “Don’t book ANY Broker freight period.” When the freight isn’t good such as now the mornings start with a message from headquarters “Book everything you can including Broker freight”.
See!? I know you guys. My wife has been with the company for 31 years, and I get to hear all about it.
Good! Because I think we went out of business owing that company some money. We were back in business the next day under a different name. We all had to get different names, too to keep from getting killed.
Had a little problem or two which broke the company. I had the brilliant idea of setting up a collection agency so when angry truckers came to the address looking for the evil brokers, they would come in and lo and behold it was a collection agency.
Of course when they asked for us, I went into my spiel about if i knew where those rascals were, I could make a zillion dollars because they owed everybody in the country.
I would cuss all of them (us) out for being a bunch of worthless deadbeats, and the truckers of course agreed and would leave heading off for whatever state I heard that bunch had absconded to. I seem to recall sending a bunch of them to El Paso and New Mexico looking for us.
Meanwhile, all my buds on the other side of the wall would be trying to keep from bursting out laughing at the horrible stuff I was saying about us. O, those were the days. Back in the 80’s...
So about half of my friends know me as _____ and the other half as _______.
parsy, who came up the hard way .