A transportfag here ( dispatcher, not a driver ).

Dear Q team, POTUS and anyone else who has direct phone line to the Department of Transportation,

Since this is a state of emergency and the transport industry is an important link in the supply chain, I think the government should look into how much money the freight brokers are charging the suppliers and how much they pay the trucking companies for the same freight. Right now the rates for transporting freight are the lowest they've been in the past 9 years and there's a lot of talk in our industry that the freight brokers are still charging the suppliers the same rates as last year, which means more 50% of the money the companies are paying for transportation, end up as profit for the freight brokers.

For the anons that don't know how the trucking industry works, read: more than 50% of what you pay for transportation goes to the middleman who doesn't actually driver the truck, but sits in an office somewhere. That is unacceptable.

The job of the brokers is to protect the interests of the suppliers in the market and make sure that they get a fair transportation costs, instead they ripping them off right now. Right now, when the food supply chain is breaking down and there is a chance there will be food shortages and people will be starving, these people are making a killing.

A lot of truck drivers are staying at home because of ridiculously low transport rates. It's just not worth it. If their truck breaks down, and they do all the time, they won't have any money to fix it, so they just stay home and wait for better days. And I can't blame them.

Also the Department of Transportation should look into the practice of "double brokerage" as we call it in the industry and punish the freight brokers who are engaged in such practice. Double brokerage is when a broker takes a load from another broker, for the purpose of transporting it, but instead goes out and gives the same load to a trucking company for far lower rate, in order to make a profit out of the difference. Let me make something clear, when I say "takes" the load and "gives" the load, I'm talking about exchanging transportation contracts, not the handling of the actual freight. The truck driver is the only one that handles the freight. These guys are sitting in an office and making phone calls. I am sure double brokering freight can be made illegal, especially now.

I know that making the freight brokers open their books would be damaging the free market setup, but this is a national emergency and they are integral part of the supply chain and artificially pushing down the freight transport rates and double brokerage are the same thing as price gouging of masks and PPE equipment and we are already punishing people for doing that.

Also, the Q team or anyone else in SIGINT should look into the inter-company communications between CEOs, department heads and so on, of major freight brokerages.