Post, Freight and Carriers

What is the best school for freight broker training? I currently own a small trucking company and I am looking into adding a freight brokerage to better service my customers. I have researched several schools/training centers who offer training in freight brokering. But, they are all pretty costly and I want to be sure that I get the best for my money. Anyone have any insight?

Im interested in becoming a freight broker or truck dispatcher but cant find any training schools around? i live in chicago so if anyone knows some truck dispatching training or freight broker schools please let me know ! Thank you All !!!

I need money to get training to become a freight broker? I have bad credit and I want to go to a school that offers a one week class to train me to become a freight broker which cost $4000.00 plus I need money to travel to the school and for a place to stay when I get there. I have not found any place that leands money to go to a school like this. Does anyone know were I could find a loan to go to this school. I work hard but don't make much money this is why I want to go to this school so I can better my life and do something I will enjoy doing. I know the cost sounds a lot but it is well worth what they teach and it includes softwear that I will need to beable to do the job plus they help find a brokerage that will work with me untile I can go out on my own if I choose to.

Does anyone know of any freight broker agent companies that will provide you with the training and employ you? My fiancee and I own a tractor trailer and have leased it on with a company, however I'm interested in becoming a freight broker agent and working from home. Presently my fiancee is the operator of the truck, I enjoy assisting in load searches for him so I think obtaining the training would be a great opportunity for me to excel in this industry.

I'm a truck driver and I'm looking at getting off the road by becoming a freight broker and I have questions.? I've contacted a individual that will train me for $250. However after some google searching I've discovered that this going rate is very low in comparison to other providers. Typically freight broker training runs approx $800 to $1600 easily. This makes me a little leery for some reason. Has as anyone completed this type of training and can you enlighten me on the ins and outs of breaking into this profession? It seems like this is a individual as opposed to a company trying to maximize profits but I'm not sure why the drop off in price.

Does anyone know anything about being a freight broker? I am thinking about attending Transport Training of America to learn to be a freight broker. Has anyone ever heard of this course? Any information on being a freight Broker would be helpful.

Anyone know were someone with bad credit can get a loan or grant to school to get training for a job? I want to become a freight broker or and agent but don't have the know how to do this job. I know I can go get the training for this job which only takes 1 week. I don't have the money to get the training does anyone know were I can get the money to do this or a company that will pay for it as lonng as I work for them after training or willing to train me. I have bad credit which is the problem.

How do I become a freight broker/agent? Is there any companies or individuals in California that provide training or hire agents without any experience? A lot of my family and friends own/operate trucks, I just want to set up something small so I can help them get freight on a daily basis.

Ways To Take a Leveraged Short Position on China? Ways To Take a Leveraged Short Position on China Many people have asked me how to get short the Chinese market using maximum leverage and the only products I can think of are these: FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index Futures & Options Hang Seng China H - Financials Index Futures Hang Seng China Enterprises Index (H-Shares) Index Futures & Options You can see from the average daily volume numbers (April 2007) that the liquidity is nothing to write home about, except maybe for the H-shares Index Futures (the H - Financials Index Futures just started trading on April 16 - early days). If you have an account at Interactive Brokers, you should have access to these products. I’m not recommending you take a leveraged short position in any of these markets, just as I don’t recommend standing in front of a loaded freight train going 100 miles per hour. Anyone have any brighter ideas than these?

Information about Air Force Officers? My husband was laid off from his job in logistics this past month. He has a 4 year degree in Christian Studies and 5 years of Logistics experience. (Brokering Freight) He is interested in going to Officer Training School for the Air Force but I an nervous about this, as it would mean that I would have to quit my job, relocate to who knows where and he could be shipped out and into war. Although I have my reservations, he has always wanted to do this, so I'd like to get some information about officer pay, usual deployment length, usual officer duties and stations. I am so in the dark about the whole issue and I don't really trust a recruiter to tell me the truth. We are located in South Carolina. Thanks so much!

I'm looking for a fantasy broker? You know, who makes dreams come true? Help? I'm looking for a fantasy broker? Help? This is a description of what a fantasy broker does: A postal clerk wants to be a stand-up comedian for one night. A businessman wants to drive a freight train across a western State. A psychiatrist wants 20 dates on 20 weekends with 20 girls from 20 different countries. How do they do it? They see a fantasy broker whose business is making dreams come true. Originally pioneered in Chicago by an advertising executive, fantasy firms in several cities now do a booming business, charging from $150 to thousands to turn dreams into reality. Fantasy Fulfillment Institute in Washington, D.C., did $2,500 worth of business as a result of an ad that read: You can do anything you want...drive a formula race car, ride a camel down Pennsylvania Avenue at 3 P.M., live in a ghost town, float down the Potomac on a magnificent barge with one hundred slaves, or kiss a buffalo. Fantasy Fulfillment's manager, an ex-insurance salesman, sees a big future in fantasy. "Why not? Look at all the money people spend on cars that make them brutally handsome, aftershaves that make them karate experts, clothes that make them girlish and thin. Why not cut out the middleman and sell directly to the buyer--original fantasies in the factory cartons?" My brother has always wanted to stay in the dugout during a game with his favorite baseball team. I figured a fantasy broker might be able to make it happen, and it would be a great gift to him for his birthday. Does anyone know a website, or phone number, or location, or something so I can get in touch with a fantasy broker? Thanks, Clarkie I know this doesn't totally fit in this catergory, but I wasn't sure where to put it so I just let YA! make a suggestion. This was their suggestion, so I just went with it.

I'm looking for a fantasy broker? Help? This is a description of what a fantasy broker does: A postal clerk wants to be a stand-up comedian for one night. A businessman wants to drive a freight train across a western State. A psychiatrist wants 20 dates on 20 weekends with 20 girls from 20 different countries. How do they do it? They see a fantasy broker whose business is making dreams come true. Originally pioneered in Chicago by an advertising executive, fantasy firms in several cities now do a booming business, charging from $150 to thousands to turn dreams into reality. Fantasy Fulfillment Institute in Washington, D.C., did $2,500 worth of business as a result of an ad that read: You can do anything you want...drive a formula race car, ride a camel down Pennsylvania Avenue at 3 P.M., live in a ghost town, float down the Potomac on a magnificent barge with one hundred slaves, or kiss a buffalo. Fantasy Fulfillment's manager, an ex-insurance salesman, sees a big future in fantasy. "Why not? Look at all the money people spend on cars that make them brutally handsome, aftershaves that make them karate experts, clothes that make them girlish and thin. Why not cut out the middleman and sell directly to the buyer--original fantasies in the factory cartons?" My brother has always wanted to stay in the dugout during a game with his favorite baseball team. I figured a fantasy broker might be able to make it happen, and it would be a great gift to him for his birthday. Does anyone know a website, or phone number, or location, or something so I can get in touch with a fantasy broker? Thanks, Clarkie

Can Anybody Find Anything But Hot Air in the Climate Bill? This question is asked sincerely by a lifelong enviro. A supporter of Al Gore. But this bill appears to have been written by the coal companies based on 25 year old ideas, many of which were accepted by G.W. Bush the Moron President. The whole idea of the market based solution -- the cap and trade solution -- making a market in pollution permits -- maybe having them brokered through a firm like Enron -- which I think did actually broker some of these permits for a while -- that idea is 25 years old. It is not change. It's just slapdash legislation based on making the old dregs by bygone ideas look like a new bill by updating the year and putting a new cover on it. It's like the old news that CBS, NBC, and ABC purvey -- stuff from a few weeks ago -- offered today as your "news". Nobody in America is willing to do any part of their job anymore. It's a nation of AWOL officials and AWOL staffers and AWOL employees. If they wanted a real climate bill, they would have included funding for the hydrogen technology. Ways to electrolytically dissociate water efficiently. Ways to store hydrogen efficiently. Ways to burn hydrogen in fuel cells, or in turbines (possibly combined with methane to make hythane (R). There would have been a huge push for the sorts of thing T. Boone Pickens is recommending. Natural gas powered trains would have been in the mix -- and transcontinental tracks for same on the median strips of East West Highways. Geothermal would have played a huge role. It is a very rich power source in some places, always on, not like solar or wind. Hawaii could power all seaborne freight in the Pacific with Geothermal based Hydrogen Fuel Cell Gas. Tidal Hydro would have been in the bill. Micro-scale wind generators (egg-beater style) would have beeb there. The National Energy Spine (super efficient cable from coast to coast) would have been there. This creates conservation by allowing energy to be wheeled from coast to coast so peak loads can be met with cheap energy on both coasts. Instead we get the ancient mantra "Let's find a market based solution (that way G.W. Bush The Moron President, and the Republicans can be happy). No breakthroughs please! No movement away from fossil fuels, and certainly no less coal or oil! We'll just do this with financial manipulations, sort of Enron style, with pollution permits, create a playground for the K Street lobbyists, make it look like we are doing something because what we do is so complicated administratively.That way we can do nothing -- and nobody will know. With or without cap and trade the carbon footprint of the energy plants was bound to be legislatively reduced in future years. Cap and trade just bring Federal Pre-emption and knocks out the states ability to legislate on this matter. It's a form of state legal dis-ablement. It's a form of permission to just keep on keeping on -- more of the same. The climate bill looks like a 100% perfect fraud, from the gitgo. Mr. Axelrod thinks it has a fairly good chance in the Senate because of the writing changes that were made at the last minute in the House, and on this he's probably right. Coal can see when it has a good deal. The whole issue now will be off the table for the next 10 or 15 years, and there are 10,000 ways that the "caps" can be removed or made more lenient, triggered by all sorts of extremely complex micro-pico-nano regulations that only the coal companies have time to figure out and understand and know how to lobby with. They can get out of the caps. They get a vacation for 15 years. They get out from under state laws. Whee ! ... this pollution stuff is easy! All politicians are politicians. Nature is always Nature. So the Canute story is always apt. The vanity and the lies and the fraud never actually trumps nature, so you can count of on the climate to keep warming up and the CO2 levels to keep going up and the sea level and storm damage to keep going up. If we truly wish to stop being a hypocrite nation, we've got to get rid of all politicians. Put a truly independent agency in charge of climate change mitigation -- something like the Federal Reserve or the FCC or the NRC -- it's got to be able to make and implement rules smoothly and quickly. It's got to be run by Chairmen with long terms of office, at least 10 years, 15 would be better. The Chairman has to be mission focused, not politics focused. If can't get around the Canute Problem (The problem that wise King Canute taught his ministers about based upon knowing that Politics never trumps Nature)., we can't deal with the climate change issue. This new bill, is just more hot air. Maybe you can find something in it and tell me about what you think is there. Anyhow that's my question, asked by a true blue enviro, an AlGorista (with rhythm, hence an algorhythm, I'm a poet, I know it, float like a butterfly effect, sting like a karma-effect). For Dana the Master of Science -- I know that H2 is not a mobile source fuel and never will be. For fixed point fuel cells, no problem, especially if mixed as Hythane (H2 + CH4). Here is Gao Bwo Fu, Doctus Juris, Magister Plutus to tell you read my book, "Cost-Effective Ways to Comply with the New Clean Air Act", or my articles published by Herald-Mail. H2 is not a fuel for mobile sources, but it's fine for fixed point sources. If you want conversation why do you block all e-mail so I have to use this question extension to answer you? You can reach me by e-mail real easily, master of science (and where is your 600 page book on the subject of hydrogen burning -- cause mine is in the libraries). Never smarty-pants a smarty-pants. Scepticism is next to Godlicism. I know it. This science-thinker atheist says, "Bless you, keep those good questions coming!"

Information about Air Force Officers? My husband was laid off from his job in logistics this past month. He has a 4 year degree in Christian Studies and 5 years of Logistics experience. (Brokering Freight) He is interested in going to Officer Training School for the Air Force but I an nervous about this, as it would mean that I would have to quit my job, relocate to who knows where and he could be shipped out and into war. Although I have my reservations, he has always wanted to do this, so I'd like to get some information about officer pay, usual deployment length, usual officer duties and stations. I am so in the dark about the whole issue and I don't really trust a recruiter to tell me the truth. We are located in South Carolina. Thanks so much!

Information about Air Force Officers? My husband was laid off from his job in logistics this past month. He has a 4 year degree in Christian Studies and 5 years of Logistics experience. (Brokering Freight) He is interested in going to Officer Training School for the Air Force but I an nervous about this, as it would mean that I would have to quit my job, relocate to who knows where and he could be shipped out and into war. Although I have my reservations, he has always wanted to do this, so I'd like to get some information about officer pay, usual deployment length, usual officer duties and stations. I am so in the dark about the whole issue and I don't really trust a recruiter to tell me the truth. We are located in South Carolina. Thanks so much!