$500 deducted off a load.

You want advice on how to strengthen your poor training; Call the OOIDA ask for legal..However, followup by posting what the OOIDA states or quit.

 

Quit beating yourself up, and if that is how you really feel then we all wish you the best of luck on your next adventure. I had to work for free for three months due to a screw up in the Army. Good thing I had other money resources to depend on.

 

Dang driver, you really got off lucky here! Penalty for littering in Virginia is a fine between $250-$2500, plus a year in jail or BOTH!

It could have been much worse.

 

Quit beating yourself up over this, sure it's not a good scenario and of course the broker is agreeing with the shipper, you don't think he's going to lose out on more loads from this shipper for your mistake do you? Just take it as a lesson learned, I've seen a lot worse happen to people from not paying attention, now you know, always always read what's in writing.

 

If you want to swing doors pull van freight if you want to haul flats then tarping ,chaining ,strapping blocking,and other things are involved , sound like your inexoeriance cost you $500 lessons are not cheap in this industry, So if i offered you a load for $3000 and you had to hand unload 6 stops for 780 miles you take the load but would not unload it yourself?

 

Us van guys get no respect. Once in a while we gotta put a strap on a load. Lol. I've seen more than one dummy open up those doors with a mess scattered all over everywhere. Even done it myself. You learn from the lumps.

 

I have to disagree with many of you.
Taking $500 from a $700 load is excessive and arbitrary. They are keeping the money because they can, and they don't think the driver will do anything about it.
Yes, I fully understand the driver did not meet all terms of the agreement by not tarping the load.
Even so, the shipment was received undamaged. That is the key. The driver's action of not tarping did not cause damage to anyone or anything.
Unless it was specifically in a binding document, they need to pay the driver $500.

 

I disagree with you.
Show me what business law allows a shipper to backcharge the entire load rate if the carrier does not fulfill every single clause in the contract.

 

It is called a "Back Charge" in the contractor world. Hell, we can get back charged $500 for not porting over a telephone number on a $100 job. At least you got to keep some money. Write it off on your taxes is about the only way to get anything.

 

Maybe that $500 number is not some random number the broker/shipper/receiver came up with. It is very likely that the receiver payed an additional $500 to have the load tarped. Therefor, when the load came in untarped, they wanted their money back. He has no idea what the full shipping charges were or what was included. Without hearing from all sides we will never know the full story.

If that was the case, then I feel it should come out of the drivers settlement. He knows he messed up. That's not the issue. The issue seems to be more with the amount taken from him. And, IMO, that amount should not exceed the original agreed tarping fee. Now, if he could just get someone to prove what they agreed to, he might have a legitimate gripe. However, I doubt anyone would give him that information.

Best to just learn from it and move on to the next lesson, errrr load.