amount/ weight / product issues

The rate that you agree on with the broker that is written in the rate con does not have any effect on the weight that you're being paid for. Generally speaking you're going to have a full truck or a lighter load.

If you are supposed to get a light load and they load you heavy then you have to call the broker to make certain it's the correct load and that you have what you're supposed to have on that load. Then at the same time you can maybe try to hit the broker for a little more money if you can.

On the other side if they're supposed to give you a full load and they give you a much lighter load it's important to do exactly what you did. You call the broker and make certain you have the right load. You make certain there's no mix-up they didn't partially load you they didn't forget about you whatever the case is.

In that situation you do not talk to the broker about price. You are purely contacting him to make certain that the right load is on your truck... are you sure, originally the load was supposed to be heavier... okay if you guys are positive that I have the right load thank you very much have a nice day. Do not mention anything about price of the load.

Like I said if the load is way heavier than what you agreed to you can maybe get a little bit out of the broker. If you were supposed to take a 15,000 lb load and now that is a 46,000 lb load the broker might cough something up. Then he will just send you an additional rate con for the extra.

When is the other way around, no, you do not return any money to the broker. The rate con does not change in that case.

Unless you are literally hauling and being paid by the ton.

 

What does the rate con say? I’ve never hauled paper rolls so I have no idea if that pays by the pound or not

 

Most loads are contracted for "exclusive use" of the van. As many who have dealt with brokers know, the details on the rate confirmation sheet may be wide of the mark. How wide determines whether or not you have to renegotiate something,

Bulk commodities, more specifically agricultural commodities hauled in a bulk style trailer (hopper, bulk tanker etc) would be the only ones that might pay by the weight hauled.
You are good to go. Buy the other guy lunch at the other end for breaking his truck and letting you get off easy.

 

I’ve turned up to load and hauled a crate that could literally fit in my sleeper.

It needed tarped, my raincoat could have done the trick.

Exclusive use only.

They book the truck for ‘x’ - you haul it within your contractual agreement and legal means of doing so.

 

They pay per rate con never an issue with weight on paper roll loads. Done plenty of them in the past.

 

Smallest I ever hauled was rhe size of a basketball. One pallet. 26 pounds including the pallet ... was supposed to be 50 pounds. Maybe I should have called?