I am trying to find out how long a freight broker can leave refused on my trailer

Well first I think it's best if you consult with a transportation attorney.

But a few questions.

Did Uber tell you to take it back to the shipper?

Did you call the shipper and ask them if they would accept it before you took it back there?

Do you have a written record of who refused it at the receiver and why?

Do you have any emails documenting that you tried to contact Uber and if they did contact you what did they say?

If you don't mind who is the shipper and what is the product? Who is the receiver?

If it were me I would make sure that you have a phone recorder app on your phone and whoever you speak with let them know that the call is being recorded. Call them and try to rectify it.

Whatever email you have that the broker sent you or whatever you have for them if it were me I would send them a warehousemen's form it says you're going to put the load into storage they have 12 hours or whatever it is to respond to you. At that point someone will respond to you or you will put it in storage.

In these cases the broker has to direct you as to what you do. Again, you need to consult a transportation attorney but if you have documentation that the load was rejected and you have documentation that you've tried unsuccessfully to reach Uber for however long and you've given them notice that you're going to put it into storage I think that would be your best course of action. But you have to have all of that documented.

And again you should consult with the transportation attorney because they could open it a claim against you and even if the claim isn't against your insurance they can try to come after you for the value of that load.

But in my opinion you do not have to hold any load that you cannot get direction from the broker what to do with it.

It is best you get it off your truck and get back to work and you'll have the money at least to fight it rather than just having it sit on your trailer and you go broke.

But you need everything documented and like I said you should speak with the transportation attorney

At the very least call ooida if you are a member but they're not going to give you actual legal advice. They may give you advice what to do but it's not going to be legal advice..

 

Have them singn refused load on BOL

 

You need to unload the trailer onto pallets, reload it, and try to deliver it again. Find a warehouse you can pay that will do it, or find a dock you can use and do it yourself. Seems like that would be the path of least resistance if pallets is the only reason the consignee is refusing it. Probably should have done that the day it was refused, but that ship's sailed already. Before you do, call the consignee and verify they will even receive it now 2 weeks late.

Step 1: Get the load off your truck, preferably to the original consignee with clean bills, and get back to making money.
Step 2: Get paid. Read you agreement to see how you might get compensated for the extra hassle. It probably matters if there's anything in your rate confirmation about pallets or the like, with both the shipper and consignee.
Step 3: Worst case, take what you can get, chalk it up to a hard lesson on how not to do this, and never haul for Uber again.

 

I've never heard of anyone left with cargo on their trailer for 11 days. It is hard to believe that it could be that extreme. What efforts, other than calling Uber, have you made so far?
I had a few situations with Uber but they did respond within a few hours. The longest one was 2 days but that was about how much I'd haul the load back to the shipper - I wanted to get paid an average market rate of WI-VA, not the rate from VA to WI which is much less . The very resolution of the load going back to the shipper was authorized after a couple of hours, though. It was also about pallets - infested pallets (they found some cobwebs and...spiders on them).

 

Finding it kind of hard to believe that the OP let this go 11 days without a resolution. The fact that he created an account and made one post, and hasn't been back to update us kind of looks like a troll that has an axe to grind with Uber. Any O/O with an ounce of sense would have had this resolved in 2-3 days.

 

Hard to believe no ones looking for the Freight. Shipper says it’s been Delivered? Doesn’t care?

 

Receiver refused it. Shipper sees it as delivered. What will happen is a bunch of annoyed accounts receivable and accounts payable people butting heads in 90 days when it comes due.
That's if the receiver keeps good enough records and simply doesn't have to eat the charge if they want to continue getting product from the shipper.

 

Think if it were me that load would have been in the landfill about 8 days ago.

 

I love the username. One of these 'one hit wonders' that picks a username based on the present moment. I shoulda picked "butt itches, what do I do" for my username.