Broker doesn't want to pay for extra miles

What do you do in cases where you tell them you will take it to a junk yard and they don't send you a new rate confirmation?
Ive never had to say that, but what are you actually gonna do? Just sit at a truck stop with the load until you get a new rate conf? What if it takes a few days? Can they call the police on you for holding the load hostage?

 

Don't blink man. Whatever it takes! Lol

 

I agree with that! Take the load back and when it's unloaded pull off the dock and refuse to load until someone rectifys their mistake!

 

Police can't do squat. Its a civil matter. You're obviously not stealing anything as you have a bill of lading for it to be on your trailer.

Worst case scenario do exactly what the contract states and deliver to the address specified. If they refuse delivery that opens up other doors for you

 

If you signed a contract, I don't think they'd much luck arguing that THEY can breach the contract (change the terms without consent or signatures) but if YOU change the contract, you're violating the law somehow.

Fact is, you agreed to do so many miles for so much money. If they want to add miles, they are opening the contract to be re-negotiated.

Reality though, is that if you want to keep working with this broker you may not want to blow the relationship up over something on principle. If this broker has been good to you, it might be worth letting it slide. That would be your perogative, but the contract has already been breached and not by you, so you're in a good position to negotiate.

 

Wouldn't worry about it blowing up any relationship with them. They will keep calling to sell a load regardless of this incident or whatever empty threats, lies this particular agent says. Already seen it before happen before.

 

You left out. "And now I'm another 5 miles down the road and the price is $175"

 

Ahhh yes Blue Star. They double brokered a load to me through Ceva a few years ago. The customs paperwork wasn't in order so my driver had to wait 7 hours at the customs booth while Ceva tried to get the consignee to pay taxes and duty on the machine. Consignee refused becauee it was only going to a trade show. Meanwhile LS refused to pay me detention, didn't answer the phone etc. 7 hrs later when he got on the Canadian side it was too dark to unload so I told him bring that thing back to the yard. Ohhhhh the Big Blue Star was PI$$SED. I told them I will sit on this forever until you give me detention and pay my extra miles. They threatened to have the cops charge me with theft and all that. I got my rate con a few days later.

And that is the story of how I got black listed by BS

 

Your absolutely right in saying it's not cheap to run a truck, and since it wasn't your fault that you where given the wrong load, I would definetly have to be compensated to go back that far and keep in mind that burns into your hours for the day as waisted time, and as for the broker getting mad at you, why not get mad at the people that put the wrong load on your trailer, broker should charge the shipper for their mistake and you should charge the broker since you can't charge the shipper in this case, stand your ground!!