u/mikehagen374

Seven straight months of spot gains and my inbox looks like it. Shippers that ghosted me all of 2024 are suddenly blowing me up wanting quotes same hour.

The speed is the problem. When it was a shipper's market you could take half a day on a quote and nobody cared, but now if I'm not back in 30 min somebody else already has it covered.

Curious how the small shops are keeping up without hiring. Are you templating everything, eating margin to skip the analysis, or just working nights again like 2021?

Manhattan DA dropped charges this week on 8 guys running a carrier impersonation ring. Six thefts, ~$5M in beef, cheese, copper, like $3.3M in cigarettes. They leased trucks, put real carriers names and MCs on the door, showed up to pickups looking totally legit on paper.

It wasn't some sophisticated hack of a TMS. A broker got a phishing email that looked like a carrier they'd booked with before, replied with the winning bid info, and that was it. The crew had everything they needed.

That should freak everyone out imo. It wasn't the load board or anyone's system getting breached. It was just a normal email on a normal day from a name the broker recognized.

PSA reminder I guess: if a carrier emails you with new banking or a pickup change or a different dispatch number, call the number you already have in your system. Not the one in the signature, not a new one they gave you!

Anyone else seeing more spoofed carrier emails lately or are our inboxes just cursed now?