$500 deducted off a load.

Gotta think with 2 minds as an owner operator. As the business man you agreed to have your driver tarp the load. You were thinking as a company driver in the fact you said we heck with tarping it isn't going to rain! Now you as a company driver still want to be paid for the job you did not do how you were supposed to. And as an owner you should be pissed off with the driver that did not do as instructed.

Lesson learned and move on. If it isn't s regular customer of yours all the better.

 

How do you figure you're getting dumb answers?

You were paid to tarp a load and transport it. You decided to not tarp the load and were penalized for taking a short cut. And now you want to know how to collect? You didn't do your job, you can't be compensated for something you didn't do.

 

You get paid fully when you complete the job pulling since you did not completely fulfill your obligations of the job you did not receive for Payment there's nothing insulting about that

 

First if your rate sheet, Bol, or any other instructions to include verbal, signs at the shipper, do not notify you that you need to tarp the load you may indeed have a small claims case. If any of those are stated that you needed to tarp the load then the customer can and will often backcharge the responsible party for not fulfilling the contract, up to the entire rate of the load. Sorry you don't think that is fair, it is business law, the law is there to protect both sides not just one. While it may suck that you took a $500 hit on this one, I will bet you second think the next time as to whether to tarp or not. It would be like one of my drivers not wanting to close their tarp on the hopper and the grain getting road grime in it, or the grain flowing out of the hopper. It would be like one of our dry vans not properly securing the doors, load, or placing the seal on at the customers request. You are opening yourself up for backcharges anytime you do not perform the job correctly.

I am not trying to rail on you, I am just stating the legal facts.

Just suck it up and drive on, that is what I used to tell my privates in the Army.

 

So you are saying that when you took this load from the broker, he said NOTHING about Tarps, but sneaked it in on the rate confirmation?

Hmmmmm........something doesn't smell right...

 

No, it does not sound good, but the facts are the facts. I know it stings, do you think it sounds good to me when I get a call at 02:00 from a driver that ran his truck out of fuel because he was to lazy to make sure he had enough fuel in the truck? It really sucks when I have to pay that service truck as much as $400.00 for something I did not do, do you think I backcharge that driver for that $400.00? Yep you guessed it, he pays the pill out of his settlement or he packs his bags and leaves. Come on man you have been doing this long enough to know what your part of the job is. We may sympathize with the situation but we have all had our own share of FUps and got our check books out and moved on. You will make that up on you next load, you and I both know it.

Good luck, sorry you took the hit.

 

So when you called on the load, the broker said nothing about tarps? At all? Not a mention, not...do you have tarps, not...this needs tarps...

Ok, sure. that's a stretch....but then you said you saw it on the rate con, and you refused to tarp it anyways....that makes no sense...