Breakdown Middle of run

Also depends on the company your signed on with.
Biggest factor would be how long does the shop expect you to be down.
Most cases, company would change delivery date.

 

It's up to the customer what they want done depending on how long you will be down. You would call the broker and they will discuss the options with the customer. A few weeks ago I was headed to pick up a load on a Friday afternoon and blew a brake chamber (7 miles from home). By the time it got fixed it was too late for loading so the shipper wanted me to wait until Monday morning. It was fine with me since I was home for the weekend. This was my trailer and delivery was less than 200 miles away (same day delivery). They could have tried to find someone else to do the job but waited for me.

 

Lost my turbo last December under a load. I had no issues resetting Thursday delivery for Monday. Guy used the line I use all the time "that's trucking".

Other driver at shop was having to fax copies of tow bills and repair orders. Broker even asked for shop to call him. They did. Then he called back into the shop to make sure it was actually a repair facility. In the end that driver had to decided between paying more than he had in the load to have the load moved to another truck including hiring someone to move the load off his flatbed to another or renting a truck. He rented the truck.

I personally would have stopped calling the broker with updates and told him what the revised ETA was on the load and made sure I never hauled a load for that broker again.

 

It's pretty simple, if you're leased to a co. they have the right to repower the load, if it is your authority there's not too much the broker can do, you signed for the load, you're responsible for it till it's delivered.

If it were me and it was a broker that I didn't know and the broker was getting nasty I would demand a Comcheck prior to offload. If it bacame a standoff I would offer the receiver or shipper to pay prior to offload if all parties refused payment then I would find a warehouse and immediately put a mechanics lien on the freight plus warehouse charges.

 

If you have the truck fully insured, I would suggest lighting a fuse and tossing it under that dash

 

Sounds great, but I was told by OOIDA that you could get in a lot of legal trouble for holding a load, something to the effect of against a law. Difinitely check the laws before doing anything like that.

 

Expect the worst from the broker, he may come on glued if youre late with one of his "pet" companies.

I had that happen to me last year. My Trans went down on me, 20 miles from delivery on a 1800 mile run.

Fortunately we had another truck unloading at the same place, and could come get the trailer just as soon as he was unloading. The broker was yelling at me, saying the customer was pissed. I just kept telling the broker "well if they wouldn't take 6 hours to unload the other truck, this load could be there by now"

The broker continued to act unreasonable, and was threatening legal action. At this point I just started laughing at him, told him to go to hell.

Fast forward, the trailer got unloaded, and the broker offered me another load for the following monday LOL.

 

The load isn't stolen it becomes a civil matter, it isn't criminal, cops can't touch you.