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  • Should A Freight Broker Disclose What The Customer Is Paying?
    It's the Saturday O&A FBTV Podcast and this Saturday is no exception. Some great questions today from where to find training too should a broker be telling a carrier what the shipper is paying. Also a question about pallet exchange loads.
    In addition, Monday July 18 is the last day to give your feedback on the FMCSA Speed Limiter supplemental rulemaking mandate. Plus we're talking about Arkansas cracking down on speeders, class 8 truck sales are up for June and much more.
    A new FBTV Podcast is available every Wednesday & Saturday and is hosted by Michael, the lead consultant for TALTOA. If you've been considering a career as a freight broker or freight broker agent, seeking freight broker training or freight broker agent training, looking for a work at home job... a career? Take a few minutes and see what TALTOA has to offer! https://taltoa.com.
    Looking for more informative information for working as a freight broker, freight broker agent, or even if you are a trucking company considering adding a broker operation as an additional stream of revenue, then you should visit our YouTube Channel “Freight Broker TV.
    FBTV YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/freightbrokertv
    Freight Broker TV Website: https://freightbrokertv.com
    TALTOA Website: https://taltoa.com
    41 min
  • More Common Freight Broker Mistakes
    FBTV Wednesday Podcast… Today we continue discussing common mistakes that a new freight broker can make. In addition, fuel is down, spot rates are holding steady (for the most part), 2290's are coming due next month, Walcott Truckers Jamboree, and Operation Safe Driver Week Continues. This an more in this FBTV Podcast
    A new FBTV Podcast is available every Wednesday & Saturday and is hosted by Michael, the lead consultant for TALTOA. If you've been considering a career as a freight broker or freight broker agent, seeking freight broker training or freight broker agent training, looking for a work at home job... a career? Take a few minutes and see what TALTOA has to offer! https://taltoa.com.
    Looking for more informative information for working as a freight broker, freight broker agent, or even if you are a trucking company considering adding a broker operation as an additional stream of revenue, then you should visit our YouTube Channel “Freight Broker TV.
    FBTV YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/freightbrokertv
    Freight Broker TV Website: https://freightbrokertv.com
    TALTOA Website: https://taltoa.com
    30 min
  • Finally, The EIA Is Working!
    It's Saturday and that means your questions our answers. It's QNA day on the FBTV Podcast. Some great questions this week that includes an employee of a freight broker going out on their own as an agent, another freight broker employed by a brokerage that can't make their bonus, and the age old “can't get a job due to no book of business and no experience.
    In addition, the EIA is back up after three weeks, Operation Safe Driver Week begins tomorrow (7/10/22), tire recall, the FMCSA speed limiter comment period ending, and it's time for the Walcott Truckers Jamboree. All this and more in this FBTV Podcast.
    A new FBTV Podcast is available every Wednesday & Saturday and is hosted by Michael, the lead consultant for TALTOA. If you've been considering a career as a freight broker or freight broker agent, seeking freight broker training or freight broker agent training, looking for a work at home job... a career? Take a few minutes and see what TALTOA has to offer! https://taltoa.com.
    Looking for more informative information for working as a freight broker, freight broker agent, or even if you are a trucking company considering adding a broker operation as an additional stream of revenue, then you should visit our YouTube Channel “Freight Broker TV.
    FBTV YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/freightbrokertv
    Freight Broker TV Website: https://freightbrokertv.com
    TALTOA Website: https://taltoa.com
    38 min
  • How To Find Shippers As A New Freight Broker
    Saturday was a part of a Holiday weekend, so this is the first FBTV Podcast for July.
    The EIA still can't, won't, haven't, whatever…, posted the average price per gallon for diesel. This is now week number 3. Spot rates, fuel prices from the AAA, fuel tax holiday remains in Georgia, California Gov running adds in Florida trying to get people to move to California? The Frasier reboot will start shooting soon, and much more in this FBTV Podcast.
    The topic of the day, well if you are a new freight broker you'll definitely relate, finding Shippers.
    A new FBTV Podcast is available every Wednesday & Saturday and is hosted by Michael, the lead consultant for TALTOA. If you've been considering a career as a freight broker or freight broker agent, seeking freight broker training or freight broker agent training, looking for a work at home job... a career? Take a few minutes and see what TALTOA has to offer! https://taltoa.com.
    Looking for more informative information for working as a freight broker, freight broker agent, or even if you are a trucking company considering adding a broker operation as an additional stream of revenue, then you should visit our YouTube Channel “Freight Broker TV.
    FBTV YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/freightbrokertv
    Freight Broker TV Website: https://freightbrokertv.com
    TALTOA Website: https://taltoa.com
    30 min
  • Avoiding New Freight Broker Mistakes
    A day late, but not a dollar short. This podcast was scheduled for yesterday, but we were delayed and just now able to produce and post.
    As expected, SCOTUS declined to hear the C.H. Robinson appeal. Be looking for a YouTube video talking about this decision in the near future. If you'd like to be notified when that video drops on YouTube, visit our YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/freightbrokertv. Subscribe and ring the bell so that you'll receive notification when the video is available.
    In addition, the EIA is still dragging their feet on publishing average diesel prices, electric and hybrid vehicle fee's to be collected in Louisiana, fuel prices are down (according to AAA) but still $2.50+ from one year ago. A driver thinks fast and donates 500 lbs of undeliverable sausage to a Salvation Army.
    The topis of today's podcast is part 2 of the biggest mistakes a freight broker can make. Be looking for part 2 next week.
    A new FBTV Podcast is available every Wednesday & Saturday and is hosted by Michael, the lead consultant for TALTOA. If you've been considering a career as a freight broker or freight broker agent, seeking freight broker training or freight broker agent training, looking for a work at home job... a career? Take a few minutes and see what TALTOA has to offer! https://taltoa.com.
    Looking for more informative information for working as a freight broker, freight broker agent, or even if you are a trucking company considering adding a broker operation as an additional stream of revenue, then you should visit our YouTube Channel “Freight Broker TV.
    FBTV YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/freightbrokertv
    Freight Broker TV Website: https://freightbrokertv.com
    TALTOA Website: https://taltoa.com
    33 min
  • A Reversed Truck Ordered Not Used Fee? Why Not?
    Saturday morning Q & A on the Freight Broker TV Podcast. You can see the full FBTV Video Podcast on YouTube every Saturday morning at 9A.M. Central Time. By Saturday afternoon it's off YouTube and can only be viewed on our website.
    Some great questions this week from a carrier that had a load go bad, a broker asks if they can bill a carrier for canceling a load, and a driver seeking a career in transportation that's not in a truck.
    Plus, what's up with the EIA? Why the sudden need to change the statistical methodologies for calculating fuel price averages? A meeting between the Energy Sec and the oil industry was “constructive.”
    In addition to the transportation topics, would you eat a ketchup popsicle? We have the recipe! That Mississippi Squirrel knocked out power to 3,000 in downtown Asheville. Invasive Carp are being renamed so that more people will eat them? This and more in this weeks FBTV Video Podcast.
    Please subscribe, ring the bell, ask questions, comment, even subscribe to the FBTV Podcast through Apple, Google, iTunes, Spotify, iHeart, or your favorite podcasting app. Do a simple search for FBTV Podcast or Freight Broker TV Podcast. Be sure to subscribe.
    FBTV from TALTOA. If you've been wanting to work as a freight broker or freight broker agent, seeking freight broker training or freight broker agent training, looking for a work at home job... a career? TALTOA! https://taltoa.com
    FBTV YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/freightbrokertv
    Freight Broker TV Website: https://freightbrokertv.com
    TALTOA Website: https://taltoa.com
    53 min
  • How To Get Trucks To Move Your Loads As A New Freight Broker
    It's the mid-week Wednesday Freight Broker TV Podcast.
    Lots to talk about in this FBTV Podcast such as more recalls, higher fuel prices, a gas tax holiday, another safety week, and more (sounds sorta like last weeks… it's not though).
    Today's topic is focused on how to get trucks to move loads as a new freight broker.
    A new FBTV Podcast is available every Wednesday & Saturday and is hosted by Michael, the lead consultant for TALTOA. If you've been considering a career as a freight broker or freight broker agent, seeking freight broker training or freight broker agent training, looking for a work at home job... a career? Take a few minutes and see what TALTOA has to offer! https://taltoa.com.
    Looking for more informative information for working as a freight broker, freight broker agent, or even if you are a trucking company considering adding a broker operation as an additional stream of revenue, then you should visit our YouTube Channel “Freight Broker TV.
    FBTV YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/freightbrokertv
    Freight Broker TV Website: https://freightbrokertv.com
    TALTOA Website: https://taltoa.com
    34 min
  • FBTV Podcast - Q&A Day for June 18th, 2022 - Happy Father's Day!
    It's another QNA day on the FBTV Podcast. Today more great questions that include our recommendations for using a carrier due diligence service, a new broker that is confused when it comes to bulk loads and CWT, and a freight broker that has their authority, customers, and carriers but not sure what they should do next. In addition to the QnA's we'll be talking about C.H. Robinson, the top 15 truck stops in the country, and stupid kid tricks that cost them their ride. This and more in this FBTV Podcast on this Father's Day Weekend. Please subscribe, ring the bell, ask questions, comment, even subscribe to the FBTV Podcast through Apple, Google, iTunes, Spotify, iHeart, or your favorite podcasting app. Do a simple search for FBTV Podcast or Freight Broker TV Podcast. Be sure to subscribe. Join us most Saturday mornings at 9A.M. Central Time for the FBTV Video Podcast live streamed on YouTube. FBTV from TALTOA. If you've been wanting to work as a freight broker or freight broker agent, seeking freight broker training or freight broker agent training, looking for a work at home job... a career? TALTOA! https://taltoa.com FBTV YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/freightbrokertv Freight Broker TV Website: https://freightbrokertv.com TALTOA Website: https://taltoa.com
    45 min
  • FBTV Podcast - Freight Broker? You Should KNOW The Details Of Your Load!
    It's Wednesday June 15th, 2022 and Washington needs to stop drinking the Kool-Aid!
    Lots to talk about in this FBTV Podcast such as more recalls, higher fuel prices, a gas tax holiday, another safety week, misinformation on YouTube, and more.
    Today's topic, paying attention to your load's details. Not doing so can cost you (the freight broker) money and actually risk losing a customer.
    Today is sorta special in its own way. On this date in 1836 Arkansas became the 25th State, Ben Franklin flew his kite, and well… if it doesn't fit, you must acquit.
    A new FBTV Podcast is available every Wednesday & Saturday and is hosted by Michael, the lead consultant for TALTOA. If you've been considering a career as a freight broker or freight broker agent, seeking freight broker training or freight broker agent training, looking for a work at home job... a career? Take a few minutes and see what TALTOA has to offer! https://taltoa.com.
    Looking for more informative information for working as a freight broker, freight broker agent, or even if you are a trucking company considering adding a broker operation as an additional stream of revenue, then you should visit our YouTube Channel “Freight Broker TV.
    FBTV YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/freightbrokertv
    Freight Broker TV Website: https://freightbrokertv.com
    TALTOA Website: https://taltoa.com
    49 min
  • Freight Broker TV Video Podcast QNA's For Saturday June 11, 2022
    It's the FBTV Video Podcast Live Stream on YouTube. Well, most of the time we live stream on Saturday morning. It's our Q&A Day on the FBTV Video Podcast, your questions our answers. Today during the Q & A we'll answer a questions from an owner operators wife asking if she needs to get her own freight broker authority to get loads for her husband, we'll answer questions about a freight broker agents salary, and an independent dispatcher is asking if they should become a broker. In addition to all of the great questions, we return to a subject discussed several months ago, the government working on making independent dispatch services a thing of the past, or really start to reign them in. This live stream is available to the public then the topic from this FBTV Podcast will be made available as a stand-alone Freight Broker TV YouTube Video. If you miss the live stream, you can still listen to the FBTV Podcast on your favorite podcast app as soon as it drops (normally within 24 hours). Please subscribe, ring the bell, ask questions, comment, even subscribe to the FBTV Podcast through Apple, Google, iTunes, Spotify, iHeart, or your favorite podcasting app. Do a simple search for FBTV Podcast or Freight Broker TV Podcast. Be sure to subscribe.
    56 min

About TALTOA

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TALTOA has been training and consulting freight brokers and freight broker agents for over 25 years. We invite you to visit our website to learn more about why we're more than just another "freight broker school". As consultants we want our clients to be successful. Part of being a successful freight broker or freight broker agent is learning how to do it right but more importantly is having the help of a consultant as you begin working as a freight broker.