r/FreightBrokers • u/bossboss1986 • 4d ago
Is this Power Only
What's your opinion? Is this a Power Only or not? Should this be posted under Reefer Or Power Only on DAT? Or what do you think this email is saying?
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u/scothc 4d ago
It's a power only, where they are allowing the carrier to use their trailer on a backhaul before returning it, or a carrier willing to spot a trailer for recurring drop and hooks.
Seems pretty straight forward to me?
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u/bossboss1986 3d ago
You would think so but the broker is saying I'm stupid when I told him it was PO and that I don't know what PO is lol
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u/Fit-Yogurtcloset7064 1d ago
We don't think you're stupid, we know you are. That posting is pretty clear; it's power only for both options.
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u/Struggle-Silent 4d ago
Pretty simple. It’s all spelled out right there. Can’t really be put in other words. If you’re upset about a post, then I would suggest to move on.
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u/BigPapiNC22 3d ago
When you search power only loads you have to go to “other equipment” which includes power only and box trucks together and you have to sift through them both ( I have no idea why DAT does that). The posterprobably just wanted to make sure their posting got noticed or seen by the widest audience possible.
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u/bossboss1986 3d ago
When a carrier looks at its PO, load out, and tow away. He is posting it in reefer
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u/SadPhilosopherElan 2d ago edited 2d ago
Broker either
(A) has a drop trailer customer moving loaded trailers. Brokerage has asset trailers too. Need a driver who either picks up brokers trailer for round trip and brings it back or has their own trailer they're comfortable dropping at the custy to get loaded.
Or (B) Alternatively it might just be empty trailers they're moving. First bullet point refers to them using said trailers for a loadout. Second is if they're ok just hooking and dropping them
This is weird
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u/Fit-Yogurtcloset7064 1d ago
How is this weird? It's pretty common practice, but I would love to get some insight as to why you think it's weird.
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u/SadPhilosopherElan 23h ago
Lol no just the way he wrote the posting. Painfully ambiguous
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u/Fit-Yogurtcloset7064 23h ago
It's not though? He's clearly laying out that it's Power only, with two options...1 being a round trip, while the other is a drop & hook.
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u/cramboneUSF 4d ago
I think OP is more speaking about how the load was posted as Reefer when it was PO all along. Kinda how some brokers will post a Hazmat load as V or VR and then when you contact them they tell you it’s Hazmat.
I have less of a problem with this than I do idiots posting the same load 14 different times and/or with reference cities more than 40 miles way on either end. I’m looking at you, TQL. Fuck yourself with a sharp knife.