Broker Witholding Pay With Clean Bills...

You might have to wait them out untill time runs out on the date contract says you were to be payed then you can file with your clean bills on their bond that can make them cut pay time down fast because next time the bond is due the price they pay skyrocket in cost for them?

 

Poultry is an exempt commodity:
https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/sites/fmcsa.dot.gov/files/docs/Administrative_Ruling_119.pdf

... so you wouldn't be able to file on the bond...

 

That's a long list didn't read it all. But the heading states all that needs to be known "administrative"
Administrative law is basically kangaroo court. Some of the items listed could fit two or three categories
I wouldn't fool with the bond thing anyway. At the first sign of me not getting paid if still in possession of load
I'd change payment method to COD. After unloading I'd call all interested parties and indicate if payment was expedited I'd be filing suit. I done that to a mouthy LS agent once.
I've only lost a couple TONU's in the last nine years and those were cause I left the shippers after a problem appeared before leaving or loading. Sure glad I don't pull a refeer looks like 90% of there stuff is exempt.

 

Yes, and it's why I no longer take calls from TQL or Coyote.

You'll just need to play the game. Start working with their a/p department at 30 days, call them once a week to ask where the check is, then file a claim on their bond at 60. They are counting on you being desperate enough to get paid fast, that you will agree to whatever discounts or fees they try to scrape out of your invoice. Don't be that way. Get paid in full, even if it takes a while.

Some may say do it sooner. However, until then, you really can't reasonably prepare a timeline of collection efforts that have not yielded a check or a valid cargo claim. Make a note of time/date/names for later use on a claim or in court. Do it by e-mail, and that's all an electronic record with a time stamp. If they're jamming up a quick pay invoice, you're out of luck. The bonding company or courts won't touch it until it's aged enough to establish they aren't paying their debt.

It's not exempt from a payment bond, which most brokers of exempt commodities will probably have since they also handle non-exempt stuff too. Which of course you would have observed evidence of upon receiving their carrier setup package on load #1.

Exempt just means they aren't required by regulation to have a bond to broker that product. Likewise, you could legally haul it without having carrier authority. Most brokers will have a payment bond regardless, since most carriers would refuse to do business with them without it.

 

You don't have to wait 60 to file suit in courts. Mine never got that far as soon as I started calling shippers, receivers and anyone else connected to a load the money would generally find it's way to me.
This why I still pay 4% to factor non recourse. Companies go under to quick now days in the time a bond filing takes they could collect all that's owed them spend it close down and leave just a 75K bond in place which means there will be lots of unhappy truckers. The bond gives a false sense of security to those that think it means much to real crooks.