Dog eat Dog mentality....

LOL, Well put!

 

From reading what you wrote, Bullhaulerswife,

I am Not saying this is the case for your situation.. but brokers do cut throat on drivers too.
Many times a broker may say , " Oh the shipper canceled on the load"., when in reality the broker has given the load to another driver.

What I'm saying is, for one example, if a driver can't get there to the shipper quick enough,, a broker has many times , given the load to another driver.

Are you sure it wasn't the broker who did this?
Are they a general freight broker? or a dedicated broker to the company.?

I've heard of brokers having a dedicated load, giving it to a dedicated consignee, and then after a few runs, turn around and give it to another carrier.

It's one thing if you have a contract with a customer to ship their freight. But it's an all together different agenda when you're shipping a load through a "Broker".
Brokers are Brokers. That's just what they are. They're not committed to anyone. A broker will not tell you he gave the load to someone else. And then there's cases where brokers cut throat with other brokers. Two or more brokers working on the same loads. That happens a lot too.

And then again, this may not be your case of what happened.

Your husband should have questioned that driver, from whom he got the authority to pick that load up. That would have answered his question.

 

Never heard of a company going that far. You CANNOT JUST SLIP IN.

You have to have an Actual Signed Contract either through the shipper themselves or a Broker. You cannot just go in with just a pickup number without having a signed contract for that load..
There would be big time Lawsuits going on.. That's why we have and run on Contracts.
I don't think any trucking companies would go that far, no matter how desperate they are.!

 

Sounds like somebody has some shady dealings going on here. I would think SOMEBODY in the office has noticed different drivers showing up. I start looking awound, and talking to a lawyer (read: slimeball, but occassionally useful) about breach of contract.

 

Oh Heck Yeah.. There was no need to point out that a broker will hunch a trucker.. Anybody that didn't know that.. Well.. They prolly don't know what hunchin is either..

Hauling pulp wood.. logs .. dump trailer hauling.. mostly local stuff really.. around here alot of times there is no contracts.. but unless they are real hard up.. most of the time a mutual understanding can be found even between competitors.. as in what the buisness end of a Smith & Wesson can do if they get to hard up.. :smt071:smt067:smt066

 

Right , you don't neccessarily need a pick-up number for a load, but there has got to be a signed Contract between two parties.

Because someone has to be Responsible for hauling that load leaving the Shippers place.
That's the purpose of having an " Authority" .
A Shipper Would Not Have Someone to Haul "Their" Product without Cargo Insurance.
Someone has to be Responsible and Pay for that Load,
in case something happened to that load., that it got lost or damaged.
So It is either the Trucking Company as the Carrier or the Broker who takes Responsibilty for Coverage on that Load. And that's where a Contract comes in.

What has happened, is easier "said " than done. There's probably a lot more behind that story .
If someone came in and just took the load underneath another, without a contractual commitment, than this country can do without Laws and the Federal Motor Carrier Act.

And I surely wouldn't want to be in the shippers shoes having someone haul my product without Insurance covering it.
We've bought ourselves a whole load of Cantaloupes to sell and lost 2800 of them, and am thankful for the cargo insurance covering it.

And for a company to just sneak in and take over a load, won't get very far without a contract. And besides that, they can have a hefty law suit filed against them and have their Authority revoked. Who in the world would do a dumb act like that?

 

I think that the shipper or reciever should just thank that trucking company for picking up and delivering those loads as a "charitable" act, out of the goodness of their hearts. The argument being since they did not have a contract, were not called to come in and pick up any loads and were not asked in any way to be involved in any manner then these weres spur of the moment acts of charity on their part and not entitled to recieve compensation!!

LPG.