You can answer on Bluetooth. You cannot write anything down.
A broker rings with a load while you are in traffic. You take it hands-free, like always — but you cannot write the number down, you cannot check what the lane pays, and you are not saying yes to a rate you have not seen. The calls you truly miss come while you are backed into a dock, or asleep in your ten hours.
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In your caller's language, in your business's own words — not a menu, not a voicemail.
She reads your own services, prices and hours, so she answers the way you would.
I've got a load out of Moncton needs to be in Toronto by Thursday. What would you charge?
I can't quote you a rate, that's the owner's, and he'd rather give you a real number than a guess. Can I take the details so he can call you back with one?
Fair enough. It's two skids, about a thousand pounds, dry freight.
Two skids, dry, out of Moncton to Toronto. Where's it picking up from, and is there a dock or does it need a liftgate?
Industrial park on the north side. There's a dock. Pickup Tuesday if you can.
Pickup Tuesday, dock at both ends? And who's the contact at delivery?
Dock at both ends, yes. Contact is the warehouse, I'll send the details.
I've got all of that. The owner will call you back with a rate, and you'll get a text from me confirming I've passed it on, so this doesn't sit in a voicemail.
No, and that is deliberate. Rates move with the lane, the season and what is already on the truck, so she takes the lane, the freight and the dates and hands them to you to price. A receptionist who guesses a rate costs you the load or the margin.
The calls that are not a rate negotiation. A shipper asking whether you run a lane, a driver calling in, a customer chasing a pickup, somebody looking for the office after hours. Those are the ones that go to voicemail and never come back.
Not unless it is written in what you gave her. She does not see your tracking, so she takes the reference number and the caller's number and it reaches you as a text rather than leaving them on hold.
There is nothing regional about her. She answers whatever line you point at her, and the four things below are the ones that actually matter once you are not in the same province as the company you bought from.
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No new handset, no app for your customers, nothing to learn.
Keep the number on your van and your cards. Unanswered calls roll to her.
She answers, asks what you would ask, and puts the job in your calendar.
Name, number and what they wanted — texted to you, and in your CRM.
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