Middleman helps solve transportation worries

By Mark Pedersen Sales Manager Attaway, Trucking Division

patching departments that can handle all of these situations. Belonging to these large companies has advantages and disadvantages. The advantage of always having a load is good, but when a load is found, these large companies take 20 - 3090 of the total revenue. This leaves the trucker with 68 - 850 per mile, which is below the I"C.C. guideline.

What about the independent driver who has no company to drive for? How does he find a load?

In almost every city you will find truck brokers or transportation middlemen. These transportation professionals provide profitable loads for the independent driver through their constant scanning of the national marketplace. This service saves an independent driver literally thousands of dollars each year.

Being an independent driver, you would spend at least 50 -75V0 ofyour time calling mills, distribution yards, wholesalers. and manufacturers for material to haul. After having spent much money in phone bills calling blindly and wasting days in valuable time, you may have a load. But if you are in an area that is not familiar. a load may never be found. Imagine how long truckers would be in business if they wasted time and money to find freight.

This is where the transportation middleman fits in. Saving truckers money and creating a valuable service is what these individuals do. They put the customer and the trucker together, when both parties may be thousands of miles apart. Taking only 5 - l2Vo and leaving over a dollar a mile for

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