Detention rates

$0
make mental note of customer. Include in higher rate for next time. Or find better customers. I find they want to hear an all in rate, not all the accessorial stuff.

 

40$/hr

 

I have seen $15-$50. I just avoid those shippers/receivers next time

 

I always demand $75 per hour after two, that's for the customers that pays it. Of my book of business, only three pay it. I have a large retail outfit that pays nothing, I've had trucks there for 12-13 hours waiting on a load to be ready (drop and hook on top of that). 90% of the time they are ready in and out in 20 minutes. I pay my driver out of my own pocket, that's the cost of business sometimes. I might broker freight a few times a year, so my patients is a little different, I can pick up the phone and harass who I need to.

 

It's pretty much up to the broker if they give you any.After you signed rate con. not much you can do,other then what the other hands said remember next time. I have had some that will throw some $ at you. You just need to ask

 

Detention

 

That's when megas will send in their company drivers to sit hours on end for FREE. As former company driver I would sit entire days before getting loaded at USG plants. Carrier signs contracts with them saying they won't charge shipper any detention pay cause they don't want to loose that customer account.

 

There might have been a time in years past when megas sent in drivers to sit for free but I believe most of your megas do in fact now pay detention regularly. Seems like the guys who get screwed over the most are little guys working spot. In the haste to book loads details get overlooked. Guilty of it myself at times. Sometimes that will burn you. You have to be pro-active and get these things spelled out beforehand. Brokers and their customers it seems always count on that oversight and have no qualms whatever skipping out on legitimate detention.