Freight Broker Institute aka Freight Agent Training is a supposed training school for freight agents. Tom Mercer, provides this training over Skype. He boasts about being a business guy with business and logistics history, but hides his face. The first night we were suppose to meet, his “”dog ate [my] microphone,”” so he couldn’t do training. Training lasted two weeks, and for another $50, I had to take a Certification course. I completed 75% of the course before he changed the passwords and I no longer have access to the material. Tom stated that I could take the Certification exam, but that the links were having issues. I have yet to take the Exam! Tom added me to his brokerage firm. Come to find out, it just opened two weeks ago. It is registered in Florida, so I am unsure where does this business (FBI aka FAS) actually exist. He uses the same phone number for three different business, including the brokerage firm going by the name of Load & Go Logistics Inc. This is also the name of a firm in Shrevepoprt LA as well as a defunct trucking company out of Hazlewood MO. I paid Tom his subbroker franchise fee of $250 as well as $85 for his required use of his own software, Shipper Pro. After a few days, I find a client that offered me its transportation business. I contacted Tom; he was impressed: “”this is a $100,00 client.”” I submitted the information to him for Credit Review and a day later, not the 30 minutes he states in the beginning, I am told the client doesn’t meet credit review. It’s a national pharmaceutical company! Why the delay? His electric was out (3/11/14)! I called Milan Public Utilities (Milan TN…Tom’s listed city on his Skype profile) this morning (3/12/14). The rep stated there were no outages yesterday (3/11/14). For a guy that is an experienced business man with businesses in the past, developing software for transportation, talks about his major financial contacts that he is working with, all his logistics experience, and the many students he has trained, his practice is shady. Your electric out and yet you have no smartphone to let anyone know? You run a business hiding behind Skype? Addresses don’t match? And now I find that he operated under one name that obtained a bad reputation, so he changed it to keep scamming people? .
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He is nothing but a scam artist
He is nothing but a scam artist he doesn’t pay his agents or carriers . All he is woried about is who he can scam the next time. He doesn’t answer telephone calls or e-mail. He is making a bad name for the industry.
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EXACTLY what I did! Apparently, he is
EXACTLY what I did! Apparently, he is BACK up and running! THIS time, from GA by way of the PHILIPPINES by way of LA! I searched and searched and could find NOTHING about this man NOR his company online NEITHER with the BBB, so i opened a case with them. FORTUNATELY, I never signed up, but I’m VERY close with someone who did. My husband always says “Signs are there, but people choose to ignore them!”. Don’t Ignore The Signs! If it sounds TOO good to be true…..
I had an experience with FBI Tom
I had an experience with FBI Tom Mercer CEO Pro’s He does know something about freight-brokering but as far as teaching it he is flying by the seat of his pants he needs to sharpen his skills in several area’s. I was turned off by the arrogance he demonstrated in class some of comments were out of order .. he liked to boast about how smart he was, if the students did get all that top grade information he was teaching he did not know what else he could do for them, teacher are suppose inspire and motivate the student. My experience with Mr. Mercer when we initially spoke about the training program was the cost of the basic program