Regulate Freight Brokers and Save Every Family up to $400 a month immediately!
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Regulate Freight Brokers and Save Every Family up to $400 a month immediately!
Have you ever wondered why the price of a pair of shoes is so high? Ever question why a pound of meat is so expensive? The answer is... transportation. Every product sold includes transportation costs, heck; even the advertising mailed to your mailbox or in a newspaper must be shipped to get it to you, so between physically shipping the product and advertising, thats close to 50\% of what you pay at retail. Transportation is a 650 billion dollar industry, but most of these profits are kept by a small number of freight brokers that feel entitled to most of the profits, and do little for their golden "commissions" which varies up to 60 percent. Every time you buy a car, a home, a taco, or a magazine, you just put tens of thousands of dollars in a freight brokers pocket.
Businesses are secretly deceived with inflated shipping costs that are ultimately passed to all consumers. All truckers know this; remember when they went on strike in 2008? Remember the news reporting the price of everything going up 20 percent afterwards? Did you know despite paying 20 percent more, 45,000 truckers still went out of business? Guess who took your money and never paid it to truckers and keep demanding more? Most people have never heard of a freight broker, nor understand the impact they have on our lives. Today that impact is unemployment, higher prices, foreclosures, and sleepless nights.
Can you see how much transportation costs effects how much we spend?
One freight broker recently took in 26 billion dollars and does not own one single truck to haul freight, and guess where the 26 billion came from? Who is being laid off tomorrow because of them? Maybe your company will have to cut back next.
Industry of Thieves was written by Paul Todd, an industry professional that blows the whistle on freight brokers and how they are maliciously inflating shipping costs through deception. This book talks about how freight brokers pay-off dirty shipping managers at businesses that take money under the table, and guess what... CEO's and General Managers do not know this.
Industry of Thieves tells all the dirty tricks freight brokers pull on FEMA, and how they are paid thousands to deliver relief to suffering victims, but delay shipments to maximize their profits, while Americans are in dire need, i.e. Katrina! This book gives the truth about how brokers overcharge the US Postal service to haul mail, which is why postage keeps going up, and the sad part is Freight Brokers have NO regulations. They are price fixing, which is a clear violation of American anti-trust laws, and the book Industry of Thieves shows how they are doing it to all of us. Their greed is costing us jobs, our homes, and our financial security. The money is not theirs, they are merely taking it, and no regulation exists to stop them
Please Sign the petition to send all state and federal reps. a clear message that we want to finally mandate freight brokers and start saving every family up to $400 every month!
Have you ever wondered why the price of a pair of shoes is so high? Ever question why a pound of meat is so expensive? The answer is... transportation. Every product sold includes transportation costs, heck; even the advertising mailed to your mailbox or in a newspaper must be shipped to get it to you, so between physically shipping the product and advertising, thats close to 50\% of what you pay at retail. Transportation is a 650 billion dollar industry, but most of these profits are kept by a small number of freight brokers that feel entitled to most of the profits, and do little for their golden "commissions" which varies up to 60 percent. Every time you buy a car, a home, a taco, or a magazine, you just put tens of thousands of dollars in a freight brokers pocket.
Businesses are secretly deceived with inflated shipping costs that are ultimately passed to all consumers. All truckers know this; remember when they went on strike in 2008? Remember the news reporting the price of everything going up 20 percent afterwards? Did you know despite paying 20 percent more, 45,000 truckers still went out of business? Guess who took your money and never paid it to truckers and keep demanding more? Most people have never heard of a freight broker, nor understand the impact they have on our lives. Today that impact is unemployment, higher prices, foreclosures, and sleepless nights.
Can you see how much transportation costs effects how much we spend?
One freight broker recently took in 26 billion dollars and does not own one single truck to haul freight, and guess where the 26 billion came from? Who is being laid off tomorrow because of them? Maybe your company will have to cut back next.
Industry of Thieves was written by Paul Todd, an industry professional that blows the whistle on freight brokers and how they are maliciously inflating shipping costs through deception. This book talks about how freight brokers pay-off dirty shipping managers at businesses that take money under the table, and guess what... CEO's and General Managers do not know this.
Industry of Thieves tells all the dirty tricks freight brokers pull on FEMA, and how they are paid thousands to deliver relief to suffering victims, but delay shipments to maximize their profits, while Americans are in dire need, i.e. Katrina! This book gives the truth about how brokers overcharge the US Postal service to haul mail, which is why postage keeps going up, and the sad part is Freight Brokers have NO regulations. They are price fixing, which is a clear violation of American anti-trust laws, and the book Industry of Thieves shows how they are doing it to all of us. Their greed is costing us jobs, our homes, and our financial security. The money is not theirs, they are merely taking it, and no regulation exists to stop them
Please Sign the petition to send all state and federal reps. a clear message that we want to finally mandate freight brokers and start saving every family up to $400 every month!
243 Signatures
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Paul Todd
- Comments
- Great Idea
- City and State
- Augusta, GA
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Denise Todd
- City and State
- Augusta
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Sandy Woodward
- City and State
- Martinez, GA
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pablo rivera
- Comments
- local market's need help
- City and State
- keysville ga
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Laura horton
- City and State
- Grovetwn Georgia
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Stuart Raike
- City and State
- Defiance, MO
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Jacob Lindsey
- City and State
- Augusta, Ga
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Jacob Lindsey
- City and State
- Augusta, Ga
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Darlene Lindsey
- City and State
- Augusta, Ga
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Caleb Lindsey
- City and State
- Augusta, Ga
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Barbara Boykin
- City and State
- Daphne, AL
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emma todd
- City and State
- tucker, ga
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David Gullikson
- City and State
- Hephzibah, GA
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anthony j landino
- City and State
- flint michigan
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David K Hedrick
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- You have said what I have said for 30 years. I appreciate the job you are doing to make others under stand the plight of the American Trucker, annd how the bloodsucking frieght brokers are affecting our lives as owner operators and the economy. I will stand with you in front of that BUS. What ever I can do to HELP to get the message out! THANKS MAN
- City and State
- Waukesha, Wisconsin
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Frederick (SilverSurfer) Schaffner
- City and State
- Nocona, Texas
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GCS TRUCKING SVS INC
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- NEED TO REGULATE AOUNTS BROKERS CAN TAKE
- City and State
- FREDERICKSBURG VA
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Kelly Cole
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- Brokers take most of the money and leave the trucks to go broke
- City and State
- Yankton, SD
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Andrew B.Carpenter
- City and State
- KERNERSVILLE, NC
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Marion Stutzman
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- I know what you are saying is true, I work with them every day
- City and State
- Strasburg,OH
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wesley harrington
- City and State
- Sulphur Springs Tx
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BRENDA McCORMICK
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- HELP US! I'M IN TRANSPORTATION
- City and State
- ELLWOOD CITY, PA
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shelia martin
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- only trucking companies should move freight. we loose money everyday to the cut throats. Get rid of them and raise the rates so we can all stay in business
- City and State
- Trafford, al
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Alice Boyle
- City and State
- Phila., PA
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Rick Hugett
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- I,m in the industry & I know what your talking about
- City and State
- Oregon City Oregon
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KRISTEN VAUGHN
- City and State
- LAKE WORTH,TX 76135
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Valerie LLanez-Serna
- City and State
- Glendale AZ
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Herbert H. Bickle
- Comments
- Thank You
- City and State
- Tacoma WA
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Lee Boone
- City and State
- kershaw, sc
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Tamra Rehling
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- WWW.SHIPPERSPOINT.COM - NO TRUCK BROKER WEBSITE
- City and State
- Olympia, WA
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Dan Rehling
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- To fix this is really simple, a tool is now available to truckers, shipperspoint.com absolutely no truck brokers! all the drivers and carriers need to do is help get the word out to the shippers that there is an alternative to the truck brokers
- City and State
- Olympia, WA
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Tracey Pool
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- I am a small trucking company and brokers are literally killing our business.
- City and State
- Westminster, MD
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Naomi Carpenter
- City and State
- 233 Parkland Ave. Sarsota,FL
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JOSEPH COUILLARD
- City and State
- PHENIX CITY,AL
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Chad Dickerson
- City and State
- Hemphill, TX
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Glorianne Hadden
- City and State
- Augusta, Ga
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Ryan Altendorf
- City and State
- Minto,ND
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J .R. HORTON
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- the book is true ive been in the trucking business all my life and ive seen it every day.
- City and State
- ORLANDO, FL.
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Desiree Wood
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- I've only been involved in trucking 1.5 years & so far everything I've learned fron the Gov't funded CDL Mills to the DAC reporting ststem has been a way to conceal a great many inhumane practices on a disenfranchised group of people. I'd like to to a massive investigation of this entire industry.
- City and State
- Paradise, Texas
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Mike Johnston
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- This is true for the most part. It especially affects independent drivers (small business which is the foundation of our economy). The free market says that, when Brokers take too much truckers will refuse to move the freight and the rates paid to move the freight will have to increase but this isn't the case when a driver has just dropped one load and is looking to reload in order to keep the wheeels moving and income flowing. There is always someone who will take the cheap load. If the drivers would get together and refuse to move cheap freight the problem would be solved. When brokers "own" all the freight in an area the choice is to takewhat is available and at least pay for the fuel used to get out of the area or to drive out empty and cover the costs out of their own pocket. Big companies can bypass brokers altogether for the most part and can run much cheaper than independents or small fleets so it doesn't affect them as much (and most of them broker off their cheaper, undesireable loads as well).
- City and State
- Selinsgrove, PA
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Kevin Hopson
- City and State
- Conyers, GA
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Warren J. Hopson, Sr
- City and State
- Bartlett, TN
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David Harbour
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- I am a one truck outfit. I had to put a driver in my truck and take a local job just to make ends meet. There doesn't seem to be anything but cheap freight out there. Times are hard and brokers are making it even harder for the average owner operator to survive. Please, curtail the excess' that these brokers take.
- City and State
- Everett, WA
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Beverly Kelley
- City and State
- Mansfield, MA
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J.D. Rice
- City and State
- Valdosta, Georgia
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Sue Laybourn
- City and State
- Markesan, Wi
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Heather Hopson
- City and State
- conyers, ga
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james thompson
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- В
- City and State
- ny,ny
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Daniel Madden
- City and State
- Augusta, GA
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Lisa Lollar
- City and State
- Columbiana,AL
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