This is how you do it

And here I thought the correct way was to specify detention and tonu in the contract. Then there is no care about length of load time.

 

My feeling has been that if you are worry about detention time pay is because you didn't get a good rate.

 

I have left before and will do it again. Extra $200 in detention charges not gonna cover your day or two of lost revenue, if you miss your delivery appointment.
Last time I missed the delivery appointment due to the lying broker, receiver wanted me to come back 10 days later.

 

That's why I add $300 to the rate to cover loading and / or unloading delays.

 

When you are your own business, with your own contract with each of the brokers, you legit do this kind of stuff? Basically make your own rules, charge what you deem necessary, and once they agree it's legally ($$$) binding? It sounds so exciting, a bunch of old ogres haggling daily with each other to move millions of tons of stuff across the nation like a giant market square. that doesn't exist anywhere else except stock market land. but in trucking world you actually see the stuff MOVE.

 

Not trying to be an A Hole or anything...I just don’t fully understand your post. Are you asking if this is how the freight business is done?

Shippers need freight moved. A broker will post the loads and try to get loads moved FOR A FEE. Thing is, a bunch of other yahoos with brokers licenses get online scoop up a bunch of loads from various load boards, take money off the loads, and then repost them on the same load board. You will have a main broker but half a dozen parasites sucking the money off of a load. By the time the loads get to the driver, a good portion of the original line haul pay is gone.

Now see, in your post, you make it sound as if these guys are unscrupulous and greedy. Maybe I am misunderstanding. Except for the shipper, only the truckers have skin in the game. If there’s anyone in this equation should get paid for moving freight, shouldn’t it be the trucker?

 

I think his post was more appreciative and envious than deprecating. I could have misread the tone, however...

 

I was just wondering if OOs actually charge that much ($300 flat rate on top for 'inevitable delays' , or the e n t i r e r u n for just 3 hours delay. And also wondering if there is industry agreed upon standard rate for detention or delay, or if you basically just set your own rate, however high. I agree with it being necessary, if there's no consequences nobody would care, driver would get screwed on delivery appointments.

that's bonkers, I guess that's where the personal broker relationship would help, so you know it's actually their load.

I completely agree, which makes the financial penalty/incentive a necessity to encourage cooperation with schedules.

 

My tone in type is that of a wide eyed rookie willing to listen to whatever anyone has to say, right up to before the point that I become a chew toy.

 

In freelance land, can you define "correct"