How to get brokers to ACTUALLY PAY DETENTION?

Probably demand it and then if/when they fail to pay don't accept a load from them.

 

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Put it in your contract (rate con) beforehand. Otherwise you are at the mercy of whatever the broker feels like tossing your way.

 

I can't wait until you get your own MC and make brokers pay you for detention, layover and all that funny stuff

 

Never said it was easy, just said it's the only way to guarantee it.

 

No it's not. Brokers can easily screw you on detention, layover and TONU. You won't be enforcing it, cause you have no time to go to court for $150 and you won't get $750 put on the rate confirmation, brokers simply don't agree to that and just give loads to someone else. The only thing you can do as a small carrier is to leave them a bad review and stop working with them

 

What kind of freight are you hauling?

 

Then you sue. You add the lawyer fees to the amount owed. Any decent lawyer can handle this. And before you claim that doesn't work, you might want to try it. I've done it and won not just what was owed, but lawyer fees too.
And collection fees in a second suit when I had to hire someone to actually get the money owed.
It takes calendar time as the court system is slow, but the only effort I put into it was finding a good contract lawyer. His office did the rest.

 

Why not file on their bond? Isn't that the first step?