Confessions of a Thief (Broker)

jaydeereiners

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Failed broker here. Let me start by apologizing to each one of you drivers my brokerage stole from, treated like ::shit::, inconvenienced and lied to. It wasn't me, it was him.

The largest brokerage within Network FOB is run by a guy named Brad Eldeen known as Brad Eldeen Logistics. I worked for him for 6 months in the worst workplace environment I'd ever encountered. It was predicated by theft and abusing truck drivers. That's Brad's model and he's good at it.

I'm an ex broker mainly because I struggled to steal effectively and treated drivers as human beings instead of the scum (he said) you are. I absolutely hated that job. It was immoral and legalized theft.

Your typical freight broker will go to great lengths to justify their existence, even as they lie to themselves. "You need me" they'll say. "I exist for a reason." It's all a lie. Freight brokers are leaches in modern society. I've seen it all from their side, received all the training...which legitimately includes methods to effectively manipulate carriers.

Brokers hate you the carrier. You represent something they can only partially control and they're robbing you of thousands at the same time.

I was well in the loop with Brad Eldeen. I got a look at his balance sheets at year end. Brad was netting anywhere near $600,000-$650,00 a year just in commissions from his loads. That's just him personally. Others he brought into the scam were pulling in the high nineties. Ridiculous amounts of money for being a middle man.

Brad came off as very charming over the phone, but the second he hung up, he was disparaging all truck drivers as stupid inbreds, barely worthy of carrying "his freight". His entire attitude towards carriers was disgusting, usually a mix of racism and his (unwarranted) sense of superiority over you pathetic truck drivers....who he always said were untrustworthy as a whole, but leaned on exclusively to get rich himself.

He looks down his nose at the very labor force that pays for his mansion and sends his kids to private school. Brad is a quintessential example of the 1% stealing from poor people, then kicking them while they're down to make sure they know their place. It was pure greed and I was involved in it. Sickening.

Sure, go look at Brad Eldeen Logistics from your end. Expensive freight, always pays on time, bonded and insured. Looks good right?

What you're doing when you take freight from a guy like Brad is undercutting the market and making less money available for your fellow drivers. As long as leaches continue earning thousands of dollars from your work, they'll keep doing so.

Say no to these assholes. Inevitably a broker will chime in here saying they do things the right way and they're "honest". Bullshit. You're a leech. You make money by stealing from truck drivers. Any twist you put on that is a pathetic attempt at self validation. You know you're unnecessary.

There will always be a market for guys like Brad Eldeen and Network FOB. He has a charming sales skill on the phone that goes over well with shippers. That charm, however, is actually a personality disorder, that allows him to con and manipulate people that aren't fellow sociopaths. It's not real. He hates your guts, but doesn't mind getting rich off your hard work. Total douchebag.

The one variable in his diabolical get rich scheme is supply. Small changes in the availability of carriers drastically effect Brad's ability to steal. Without you the hardworking carrier, Brad ceases to exist. Make it that way.

I'm no angel here. I have stolen from you. I've made money from truck drivers in a disingenuous way. For that I'm deeply ashamed. Please accept my apologies.

Know that at one point I did stand up for you and my human decency cost me a job. It was worth it.
 
so now you are here..???

tell us what really happened to you

were you promised a big promotion??? a huge pay raise...???

there are 3 sides to every story, yours, thiers, and the truth......
 
Your response is bizarre to me. I'm lying about this to implicate a completely ethical freight broker? Does that really make sense to you?
 
Your response is bizarre to me. I'm lying about this to implicate a completely ethical freight broker? Does that really make sense to you?
we all know what freight brokers do. what is your real reason for telling us, you want to be forgiven of all your sins..??

why not make repayments back to the drivers you stole from??? seem to me, that would be the right thing to do.

you can go on all the trucking websites you wish, i will find you and call you out at each one.
 
That's more logical. I guess I didn't know you guys had intimate knowledge of the inner workings of a freight brokerage. I stand corrected if I'm preaching to the choir.
 
EX396 should be along shortly to dispute how horrific brokers and 3PL's are...

A little birdy told me you were squawking...

What's there to dispute? If you don't like them, don't use them. Don't work for them. Tell your employer not to accept any shipments from them and refuse to deliver any shipments to them. Let me know how that works out for you and your brothers and sisters.
 
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A little birdy told me you were squawking...

What's there to dispute? If you don't like them, don't use them. Don't work for them. Tell your employer not to accept any shipments from them and refuse to deliver any shipments to them. Let me know how that works out for you and your brothers and sisters.
Don't you mean a big ********* told you? :hilarious:
Right on cue you come to the rescue. :1036316054: ABF, FedEx et al using them doesn't mean that they are not the scourge of the earth. Don't you usually bring your back up :butt kiss:?
 
Don't you mean a big Richard Cranium told you? :hilarious:
Right on cue you come to the rescue. :1036316054: ABF, FedEx et al using them doesn't mean that they are not the scourge of the earth. Don't you usually bring your back up :butt kiss:?

You spelled ABFer wrong.

Just because you are feeling better doesn't mean you can stop taking your meds.
 
A little birdy told me you were squawking...

What's there to dispute? If you don't like them, don't use them. Don't work for them. Tell your employer not to accept any shipments from them and refuse to deliver any shipments to them. Let me know how that works out for you and your brothers and sisters.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
 
You spelled ABFer wrong.

Just because you are feeling better doesn't mean you can stop taking your meds.
No meds here other than my BP pills, so what are you talking about? You and your kind are nothing more than leaches in the side of the transportation industry and one of what used to be your kind has spoken. The big difference is that he has a conscience and feels remorse for having been what you are. :9529:
 
No meds here other than my BiPolar pills, so what are you talking about?

Fixed that for you.

ABFer said:
You and your kind are nothing more than leaches in the side of the transportation industry and one of what used to be your kind has spoken. The big difference is that he has a conscience and feels remorse for having been what you are. :9529:

You need to make up your mind about what it is you think I do for a living. Am I a broker, a 3PL or a paid union buster? I can assure you if the original poster was ever what I am he wouldn't have anything to feel remorseful about.

There are unscrupulous folks in every aspect of this business. A few thousand Teamsters being absolute lazy pieces of dishonest ::shit:: doesn't make the other 1.35 Million honest hard working Teamsters the same in my mind. Surely you believe you are as capable of reasonable thought as I, don't you?

So how about it? There are good, honest, scrupulous 3PLS and Brokers out there aren't there?
 
There are unscrupulous folks in every aspect of this business. A few thousand Teamsters being absolute lazy pieces of dishonest :::shit::: doesn't make the other 1.35 Million honest hard working Teamsters the same in my mind. Surely you believe you are as capable of reasonable thought as I, don't you?

In response to "Good, hones, scrupulous 3PLS and Brokers" ABFer claims the statement
...is an oxymoron.

So the answer to my original question is: "Apparently not".

Carry on....you are now in fine company ABFer; on my ignore list with others incapable of reasonable and logical debate. (Damn....Staff members can't be ignored) I will have to use my own ignore filter.
 
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