How to hijack freight and get paid

It would be an interesting study to see what income could be gained by taking the action of off loading freight without permission or hold freight hostage vs the risk. The cost of defending your actions could bankrupt most O/O's. By taking the actions suggested here without the contractual ability to do so changes your small claims action to a 5 figure damages claim against you. Even if you win (a big IF) you still have to take all the time to defend yourself.

And if you aren't forced to settle because of the legal retainer you have to pay, the court will likely look for a bond that will force you to settle.

So hardball is one thing. But can't see the reward comes even close to the risk.

If you want the freight off then let the broker coordinate it. Get that in writing. At a certain stage stop communicating via a phone so that you have a paper trail for when you go to small claims because you sat on a load for a weekend and the broker wouldn't coordinate getting it off loaded.




Is this "broker" Bill talking or "trucker" Bill. Maybe bill the "attorney" is talking now. What gives?

The more I read your posts, the more confused I get as to exactly what side you are really on most of the time now. On this one you seem to clearly be leaning to the broker side of the issue, and that's fine. I know you wear two hats, so I can see how it is always a struggle to remain impartial with your advice and comments on here.

But lets face it BBB. You are a broker as well as a carrier, and it seems the "broker" side seems to take the most offense to this post and the whole Idea of it than the trucker side does. Maybe this whole concept makes broker bill uneasy;as it should.

So just shoot straight and make your point. If you think it is a huge risk then say so. But do you have any research to back this up? I have my own actual experiences to back it up, albeit a limited amount. Saying you could get sued into bankruptcy? Well back that opinion up.

There is no "research" that needs to be done. It is what it is. We are all big kids and we can decide for ourselves what is appropriate and what is not when it comes to fighting back against the scum bag brokers out there.

You keep dropping a lot of serious bombs here like "bankruptcy" and such. It seems like you are trying to scare people away from this idea for some reason.

Well lets look at me as an example. I have had my authority off and on since 1999. I think that makes me qualified to levy my opinions and stories on this board no matter how I may rub you and the other "old timers" on here.

I am NO NOOB. Call me out again and I will prove it. Want to compare MC numbers?? Mine begins with 414XXX Where does yours start out? Anybody that knows anything knows how old mine is.

I have been sued for numerous things over the last decade and I am still kicking. Never got sued into bankruptcy.

Anybody that wants to look up my corporation will find that it was founded in 1999. I am no new comer to how to run a company, any company for that matter.

My opinion counts too and here it is:

If a broker trys to get you to hold a load and tie up your equipment, then threaten to take a lien against the property against accessorial charges and also threaten that you will have to OFFLOAD the freight no matter because you have other commitments with your equipment and that the broker can just arrange to have someone pick up the freight later for delivery AFTER they have agreed to compensate you for the additional charges associated with storage. Storage is a very typical tariff in this industry. Nobody will get sued into bankruptcy for charging for a legitimate tarrif for storing a load due to a blown delivery appointment error ON THE BROKERS PART!!!!

 

Let me condense this opinion on my part to one sentence:

If a broker SCREWS up and they threaten to sue YOU over the matter then let them go ahead and try.

 

Broker bill would think this is ok

Trucker bill would tell you it sucks.

When are you people going to do some background work on bill?

I don't go on a forum like this and give out my company name, and I WILL NOT. I am not that kind of guy.

But bbbill is. So go look him up.

Then look at the positions he takes on things. In one thread he is broker bill acting like trucker bill. In another he is trucker bill acting like trucker bill.

It gets confusing.

I am gunner the trucker.

No broker here.

Just a trucker.

 

You have a brokers license for 1 or 2 loads a month?

How much does that bond cost you ?

How does that make any business sense?

 

Talk Like a broker

Complain like a broker

Carry a broker authority.......looks like a broker to me.