I taught that was only in the Miami Fl area ,the broker here charge the O/O 10% brokers fee plus 11% insurance fee ,so if you gross $300,000 a year you paid $30K insurance oh and they don't care if you have insurance , if you work for them they will charge you the 11% ,but there has been many cases that after a bad accident there is not such a thing as insurance ,when lawyer gets involved they ,the broker proves that they don't know the subject in the crash ,and never work a day for such broker ,every time I hear of something like this I get infuriate it ,I'm always talking to the Owner Operators to stop supporting this scam ,they always fight back telling me that it is to easy for me to say, because I'm independent ,and I try to explain that when I started I did from zero and never put up with that cr@p .
These people that I'm talking about are Hispanics like me and I found out that every where I go with a high population of Hispanic truckers is the same xxxx ,and the worse is that every single one is always complaining of how bad are the SOB brokers exploiting their own people ,but man I and many others never put up with that mentality, of you have to work for a broker or you will never make it ,than they look at you like you're some kind of elite in the business ,this people work cheap, most don't have insurance ,most don't pay the heavy vehicle road tax (2290) they always managed to buy off road fuel or hot fuel and tires ,repairs? on most cases ,what do you mean ?, and the list goes on and on ,at the long run we all get affected by this under ground market ,all contractors know they can pull theirs strings and have the dump truckers do it for almost nothing ,all they have to say is Ramirez or Fernandez Trucking can do it for less and right away they get this poor soul hauling all the loads for pennies and then half way through the job the contractor calls and says, hey Ramirez just call me and say they can do it for half, unless you can do it for that much don't bring any more, and the same guy keeps hauling for less than nothing .
Man don't get me started . any body here can ask any question if you want ,I don't believe on that don't ask, that is inappropriate, he is a minority.
I'm just like anybody here I am a US citizen like everybody else I breathe the same air as you ,when I want something it cost me the same as you , if I want something really hard I know it might mean that I have to work harder ,that minority BS ,is just a scam created by the government ,that a lot of faceless unamericans are taking advantage of at everybody else's expense, so don't feel bad for any of these guys when you hear how bad they have it , they who ever is taking advantage of the system is just ruining our country .
PS . And please don't hire any of these loser's as cheap as they sound ,some how is going to cost you more down the road .
I'm done for now ,talked about venting . :usa