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I don't personally have any experience with this ( knock on wood ) but, seems odd nonetheless...

I've read many, many threads on here in regards to this same situation and this has to be the first time I've ever heard of a broker just immediately give in, and say OK here's the extra $4k you want!!! No problem!!!

Not to mention this guy has a brand new authority and CDL from what he posted on another thread...

I suppose anything is possible, just smells a bit funny...

 

Exactly.
$4k, sure, no big deal.....we do it all the time.
Sure you do

 

Talking to an attorney, he said most of the time the ratecon isn't exactly binding unless both sides sign, and just from the small experience I have, Ive noticed most brokers routinely just send a ratecon, you sign, and that's about it. But I made sure they signed it themselves and breakdown what each dollar was for. So I'm hoping it works for me atleast. If they don't and I try to file on their bond, atleast I have something they wrote out themselves and signed. Guess we'll see

 

You're gonna get screwed.
100%

 

I'm also curious if the consignee paid the difference and that's why the broker told me they would give me what I want. Because when I called the consignee and told them they probably won't be getting it monday morning because of the broker. This consignee is building a convention center and is renting a Crain to install the elevator parts I'm holding, he said hes losing tens of thousands per day that they don't have it delivered. So I'm thinking he may have just paid for it through the broker to make sure he got his elevator parts

 

Let us know how this turns out for you. An immediate 4 grand rate bump is pretty much unheard of unless you're doing super-load HH.
One thing you can count on is that broker will never use you again and the consignee will piss in your well every chance he gets.

 

We have a warehouse also, and get deliveries all the time. Every time a customer or broker calls me about a load delivery to our warehouse, I give them my personal cell number with express instructions to give my number to the driver and have him call me to setup delivery.
The thing is, we can unload almost any time to fit the driver’s schedule, but it’s not a manned warehouse and I just need to know when to expect them so I can have somebody there to unload. They hardly ever call. I don’t know if the driver isn’t given my number and instructions or they just refuse to call. Either way, they have had to wait several hours before because I didn’t know they were coming. Not my problem, the instructions were given.

 

Well this broker isn't extremely big time, and will be placed on my DNU list anyway, and as far as this consignee, it's an elevator company in a city I refuse to go to unless I have a well paying backhaul (which in this case I lost it).
Probably last time I'll ever see or hear of either one, so it's whatever lol

 

Absolutely. That was something I noticed immediately as well. Hopefully, I'm wrong but my intuition is not feeling very hopeful. I hope the OP updates us in 30 days.

 

Attorneys are irrelevant (and the one you spoke to is obviously ignorant as you both already have a General Agreement that's parent to the RC) when filing on a claim on a surety bond as it's not a court of law. Since the broker sent the updated rate con it's automatically implied that they agreed to the terms. This would normally be all that's needed with an insurance claim as long as the RC is seen as an extension of the Agreement and or as addendum which 99 percent of them do. The problem here is that the broker can easily claim their hand was forced via extortion to get their customer's freight released.