lumper fees...why???

You started this off on the wrong foot, but you ended it on the correct one! Anything that costs businesses or the government all comes back to the consumer / taxpayer. No matter what. WE FOOT THE BILL!!

 

You'd be amazed at how many people just don't understand that businesses and corporations do not pay taxes....they merely incorporate their anticipated tax liability into their cost of doing business and factor it into the prices they charge their customers....it ALL gets passed on to consumers.

 

My LLC surely pays taxes, and with fixed legal fees, I can't increase my invoice amounts to make up for it. I understand what you're saying, though.

 

Who "fixed" your fees?

 

The lawfirms I consult for. Pretty much standardized throughout the industry.

 

So in other words, they have determined that they will pay $X for your services, and you either provide them for that price or you don't.

If that fee is standardized throughout the industry, who set that standard?

You know what happens in any OTHER industry when competitors get together to "standardize" a price?

Lawyers tend to get involved in the matter when that happens anywhere else...

 

Agreed, but it actually flows down from state set fees that attorneys can charge... and flows right into all the fees that experts and clerks can bill at.

 

Considering most politicians are lawyers, it doesn't surprise me in the least that they have codified their own business expenses to prevent their own costs from rising.

Must be nice having that sort of power.

 

Exactly......

 

I have never unloaded a 53' trailer by myself. I assisted once, because te only person who received the product was a 70 year old man with a fork lift, and there was no dock or ramp (He brough a pallet jack so I moved the pallets to the end of the trailer and he tock it of with the forklift). If they pay a lumper $150+ to rip of my load, I'll take a nap, unless they make me count the product.