When to look for a warehouse?

Charge your daily truck rate or more to store his freight until you are given an appointment?

 

You'd have never been in this situation if you had called the receiver yourself. I rarely do loads that have appointments, but no matter. Call every shipper and receiver before I ever go to pick up the load.

That alone fixes 99% of what would have been problems.

I just don't understand why any driver, company man or OO, would trust brokers or dispatchers info.

 

If I can't verify pickup and delivery info with the shipper and receiver, yeah, I'm not gonna waste my time trying to go get it.

So yes, I have the broker send shipper and receiver info and contact #'s with the ratecon. If they won't, I don't haul it.

That's as explanatory as it gets.

 

Dude, I can explain it to ya, but I can't understand it for ya.

Ok. I referenced my mouth breather comment from your other post. Sometimes I gotta remind myself, they're in here too.

 

What did you agree to for layover pay?

if it was a decent amount I’d just go home and wait it out. Not like it’s much fun buying fuel now.

My not so nice approach would be to park the trailer and when you get another drop appointment tell them they’ll need to reschedule because it doesn’t work for you..do it a couple times

What’s the load value?

My last load was close to 2 million,,44 Yamaha 300hp outboards.

 

/shrug nope it had a good point. In the intrest of assumeing your new to this. The most dumbed down version is the following. Before i sign a ratecon im going to first and formost ensure the terms on it are correct and as stated. Then i am going to call the shipper/reciver listed on it and verify the following.
1. What am i picking up and when
2. What the hours of operation are.
3. When am i delivering and where.
4. What the reciver hours of operation are
5. That the apointment if any of both shipper and reciver is correct.
6. Ask for expected load/offload times.
7. Ensure there is a clause in there for a storage fees for exactly the situation your in.
8. Ask if there are any special loading requirments that may not be listed. Or verify any that are.

If you can not verfy or get all of the above. Or the broker refuses to provide this basic information. Decline the offer and dont sign it as this is your last chance to back away without pentalty. After you sign the ratecon your stuck with the load and its on you at that point.