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Old Jun 8, 2007, 08:19 AM
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Questions to ask Trucking Companies

Hi My name is Brendan. I'm around the Chicago land area, and i Would like to know from some trucking professionals good questins to ask. If aybody could give me a few ideas I would apreciate it. Like as far as who to use, or things that i need to know about the trucking industry as a customer.

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Old Jun 8, 2007, 08:33 AM   #2  
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Trucking is such a cut throat buisness. go to the Better Buisness Burea to check out any one that you are going to do buisness with. Iam a dispatcher for a small courier / trucking company and It amaze's me at some of the back handed ways of some of the people in this business. good luck
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I know that it is a cut throat industry but i need to find the right questions to ask so I don't get screwed over.
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first what do you need trucked? how far and how often
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once to 3 time per week to 5 different locations one being in mexico
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but all over the us south and east
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will the pick up be in chicago
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If you can find a small company that is dedicated to you that would be great, as long as they can keep your prices low...these large companies sometimes offer you the moon as far as delivery times and hire my company to do the driving when they can't handle it and try and pass off the charges to you rather than loose their 'es. We do work for G E and they have many, many companies that they call to do their jobs for they just do not use 1 company. A lot of these big truckers are closed on the weekends I would try and findsomeone that is open all week long
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Ask them for references, as said above alot of companies will tell you they pick up and deliver on time, but really, from working in freight forwarding truckers will lie and say anything to get you to book with them. Once problems begin they will lie also, we have a few truckers that we used to use that would tell you they are ready to deliver when they are hours away.
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