Rejected load, detention layover pay

You did your part and now they are offering no direction. Don't get used as free storage. Tell them you will find suitable storage at whatever the storage warehouse rate is, or they can negotiate with you (right now) to hold the load. If no answer, proceed to put the load in a storage facility. You will be on the hook for paying the storage facility, but what else you going to do? That should kick the broker into high gear. Also offer to return the load to the shipper for an agreed upon amount. Give all options to the broker. Just don't sit on the fence cuz there's only one place the splinters will go. None of these options are unreasonable. It would be unreasonable for them to expect you to sit there for some paltry amount. You're out here to make money, not screw around for free and make $0.
I would word it as "I need an answer by x time, otherwise I will be forced to take action myself."

I've only had to do this once. The situation magically resolved itself as I had left the customers yard and was on the way to take it to a warehouse. Suddenly they had room for what they ordered. Imagine that.

 

Stick the #### load into a storage outfit big enough to hold it. The 100 you spend today on that for a month will buy you the home time load now.

I bet you the farm your communications will light up with a horde of people bending over groveling at your boots to make that thing go bye bye in 15 minutes once someone is told by you where the load is disposed of.

I did that also once in my lifetime. I had extreme feelings of not sure if I would get away with it but once the company heard about it... I had a thousand helpers coming pronto. So much for my stupid temper that day.

That converstation was memorable.

Rejected load went into storage 100 done.

Climb into empty truck go to new shipper to load. Halfway loaded dispatch messages me what are you doing loading on top of our rejected load?

No. Listen carefully. (Read this...)

I placed load into storage. Am following preplan new shipper load to such a such a customer.

Silence 30 minutes in heaven.

The yelling started.

It was three days before it stopped. And when I went back to office yard with that truck one suit told me I am too little to have that kind of balls. I threw the keys at him and quit. The outfit went out of business two months after.

 

I can't solve the problem, but I've seen this many times when I drove for a grocery warehouse. The lazy people at the grocery warehouse would, by mistake, place a double order, similar to hitting the "send button" twice on the computer, then blame others to cover for their mistake.
I saw this once with a load of ice cream; they double ordered, then when they realized it , they blamed the truck driver by saying the ice cream was soft and the tattle-tale temp recorder magically disappeared. The trucking company had to pay for the load.

 

You tell them it doesn't go back on the truck until you talk to the broker and close your doors.

Then deal with Hunt, there is always someone there, so you can get answers. YOU did your job, you need to leave and I would tell them it is on the dock and if they want it moved off, it would cost them to use your truck.

 

It is a lot more difficult than it appears to simply tell them "take it off my truck".
For starters, if it is rejected, the last thing you want is for them to somehow claim against you the carrier and the load is not in carriers possession. If you or your insurance is going to be paying for something, I will be having cereal or ice cream or whatever for the next 5 years or I will sell it since I now own it. Same if my insurance is forced to buy it. In the case of "soft ice cream" and tt vanishes, I'd get a reefer download and certification of its temperature output. Now try and force me to buy it or my insurance. Insurance will fight that and win. Which is a separate issue from hauling the load anyway, so you should be paid regardless.

 

Husband just had a load of about 320 cases of frozen pizzas shipped with a load to a warehouse in Ft Worth; they said they didn't deal with pizzas there. Overnight waiting till hours were out waiting for them and the shipper to figure out what to do with it. They finally kept it. This is a company lease driver so he will get some money on it and got his 10hr in waiting on their lot.

 

shut the doors and ride

 

Walmart Rejects 20 Pallets..Stuck with Load

I faced a similiar situation to yours early last year..hopefully it helps.