Fed up about unpaid "detentions"...

You get bupkis. Unless you can nail the signing of a contract so that whatever it says they have to pay up.

It is also a clue to maybe reconsider what ever it is you are hauling. Detention and sitting around is a form of waste and a parasite to everything you are in life.

 

Hold them to the contract that they signed. Do you submit a print out of your log for that day as further proof of how long you were held up? Or stop hauling for people who don’t pay for your time. Or keep putting up with it.

 

Move to flatbed.sometimes they unload me so fast my log book is still on drive time when they sign my papers

 

I pull a pneumatic so I’m not dealing with warehouses and such but here’s what we do:

On the BOL we write our arrival and departure times, getting someone to sign off on those times when possible.
We email a copy of our log to the office and they submit that along with our BOL.
And sometimes we also have a scale ticket with in/out times to send along.

 

that's why I run reefer High Dollar Medicines. Leave that Food BS that has rotted my spine behind.

 

When I pulled pneumatics, I used to get signatures upon arrival, stating the time for permission to unload, and get a second signature upon completion for acceptance of the load, Things like plant full, other trucks ahead I just noted on the BOL.
I the Chemical tanker world I am required to get the same set of signatures before I even hook u to the plant, verifies the type of chemical, unload/load location and plumbing, as well as PPE locations like fresh water and showers, If it takes a customer an hour w dont even loosen a cap till its signed. I wish the freight people I have driven for did this.
I all fairness at Legend I never waited for loads, it was all drop and hook, with the exception of a couple of deliveries and I was paid for them. Thats was dedicated TJ Max / Goodman AC loads.