Signed Rate Con

That’s what I’d like to know!! I’ve had them do it a few times, but no longer worry about it as a lot don’t need a signed one back

 

A rate confirmation signed by the broker is not really necessary, but I would make sure you have their signature an the broker-carrier agreement before you pull a load for them.

 

I would say that if you modify the terms on the rate confirmation, that would be an exception. I would definitely have them sign it in that case.

 

I asked the same question one way or another maybe 100 times here too. Never got any clear answer. In my logic, the rate con should be signed and sent by the broker to the carrier and then the carrier sings it and sends it back. If there are any amendments to accessorials that are different from what it is stated in the carrier-broker agreement, then they should initial or sign it too - acknowledging it and send it yet one more time back to the carrier, so he has it in case the broker denies anything extra on the rate con.
Of course this would be a pain in a ### to go through this back and forth routine, so we often take risks and hope that they are trustworthy.Many of the brokers I deal with, don't even care about receiving a rate con signed by me, they just want me to verbally acknowledge that I got it in my email.

 

I have never had to add terms to a broker before I just ran with whatever terms they had set forth. But my situation was different then as i was working with a broker exclusivly he know what I expected and went out of his way to get me the best deal he could get me. never had an issue. But since things have gotten so slow I have been having to hit the load boards and taking loads from other brokers. Now its got me thinking. and running for these brokers with one sided contracts is starting to hurt me as im getting screwed alot

I would be interested in learning what terms others are putting into the rate cons that help protect them.