Quote Originally Posted by eesakiwi View Post
Going to a internationally owned big company is best. Best prices most of the time & high business standards mean that it's tougher to fudge any numbers in the books. And less of a reason to. It will get found out in time.
Here it is the opposite, we pretty much have just one major international corporation in our market and they pay less, because they're the big guys who bought most of the independent yards where most people are used to go and they know everybody will continue to think of them first before everyone else. Buy it cheaper and resell it at the highest prices to your other division = more profits for them. Also, they killed most of the competition and prefer to optimize their vertical integration instead of shopping the best prices to resell the commodities. Before they bought the yard closest to me, the guy at the truck scale always wrote the in and out weights in your ticket. Since you know your vehicle + driver weight, it was easy to see if the weight was accurate. Now they just write X lbs/ton in whatever commodity. I don't like it, but that's the way they do it now.

At the small scale, if I can't see the weight, that's a big red flag for me. Anyway, they have no reason to hide it if they're honest and transparent.