Complaint Review: transportreviews.com

You want to ship your car and you want a good deal. You are smart enough to know that you need to research companies so you don't get ripped off. The largest review website out there is "transportreviews com" and it looks legit. It looks like you can look up companies by state or by broker or by carrier. It looks like you can search through hundreds of reviews. It LOOKS legit but it is really a SCAM.

If you pay closer attention and know what to look for you would see past the facade.

• Try searching for brokers and then search for carriers... SAME companies! Why list a broker as a carrier? Because most people know they should book with a carrier if they want to eliminate the middleman.

• The companies with hundreds of great reviews are usually "supporters" or the reviews are posted as "compensated". If you pay to be a supporter, the company gives you top billing and for every 1 bad review you will see 30 over the top reviews.
• If a company does a great job for you, do they really need to compensate you to give them a great review?

Small companies with only a few reviews get the short end of the stick only because they won't pay to be a supporter. If you don't pay to support the site they havebeen known to remove positive reviews claiming the reviews are fake and will not re-post them when you give them proof.

What started out as a great idea (before they started charging money) has turned into a greedy scam site that will allow fake bad reviews stay with good companies that do not pay and will erase real bad reviews for those that do pay.

This site is a scam and a fake and will cost you time and money if you choose a company only based on the posted reviews.

To research a company, try Googling the company name and the word "complaints" & check with the BBB.

ALL Carriers & Brokers are required to list their MC#/DOT# on their websites. IF you do not see one or the other, steer clear of them.

You can look up a company by their MC#/DOT#  by going to: li-public.fmcsa.dot.gov/LIVIEW/pkg_menu.prc_menu and search either #. If they are a broker you will see either a Bond or the words "Trust Fund" listed under their insurance. A Carrier will show actual insurance.

I sure hope this helps a few of you to avoid a nightmare.