For the past week or so I have seen threads pop up about brokers, insurance and ELDs among other problems.
Now, I write to my senators (all are useless POS) and have talked to my representatives all on the state and federal levels about different trucking matters. Sometimes, it is lip service from them, but other times, they do bring the issue up in committee.
What I see in this industry and now in a lot of others is it is fractured enough that there is no power in numbers.
The solution is possible, with all of you who are willing to take a UNIFORMED approach to the issues and talk to those who are in power.
What I mean is stop being selfish, look at one issue – take brokers – and agree with simple solutions that work. I, among other owners, have talked about one issue – ownership of the loads – which means that when you book a load that is scraped off of a board, the initiating broker has to be disclosed; the source of the broker offering the load to you got the load is and is there communications about the load between brokers and the shippers/receivers before the load is on the truck. This is a single subject but it impacts all of us equally.
So for the problems with insurance, ELD, and inspections, it is even easier, the FMCSA has to force the brokers to accept any truck that has qualified to be on the road under FMCSA regulations. If the insurance is progressive, and fulfills the requirements of the FMCSA, then the broker can not refuse using the truck. The same with inspections, and ELD access.
This will impact these reporting sites and other things for all of us to get this crap out of the way from making money.
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