Making your own agreements for broker

I would think but going to court a few times over breach of contact issues, the judgement has been based on one factor, each party who signs it has to do their due diligence and review the contract they are signing. If they sign it with the changes made, then there is no claiming that they didn’t understanding what they were signing, especially when the contact originated by the person making the claim,

I had a broker claim they didn’t see the the changes in the contact but signed it after the fact, the referee didn’t accept their reasoning why they didn’t have to pay.

 

Some people talk a big game, but at the end of the day, we all kind of sign the same contracts. I have over 100 brokerages in my customer profile list, but they are all just as great and just as cut throat as the next. Even ATS logistics. I love ATS, they pay me in 3-5 days direct deposit, no quick pay fees. But even them, In a pickle, may prove to be fickle. But that’s the risk and reward we take out here.

there are a ton of no good truck carriers out here. There are a ton of brokerages that are no good either.

most broker contracts are the same. Almost word for word (copy and paste). Just move your business cash into your personal account before the lawsuit! I’m just kidding, but you know how it goes. We do way to much to be getting the short end of the stick. If you see an issue in the contract, correct it! If you see an issue in the rate sheet, correct it! The worse they can say is no ~

 

People on here will tell you that you can get detention agreements signed and make revisions to carrier packets or even make them sign yours instead, but the reality is as a single truck owner op running the spot market if you try to do anything besides sign their agreement they'll just give this load to someone else. Guys with a truck are a dime a dozen.

When the market was red hot I got my detention agreement signed by a broker who was about to change jobs anyways and I was able to make some packet revisions, but like everyone else said they won't initial next to them. With packets increasingly being done via services like RMIS it's not even possible to make revisions.

 

It's the best practice. This raises an important concept in the law. That piece of paper you both sign is not, strictly speaking, the contract. The contract is the meeting of the minds between the parties. That document is evidence of the contract, not the contract itself. If you just cross something out the other party might claim they didn't notice it. That may or may not carry weight in a court case. It just becomes something else you have to fight over and which might not go your way. Better to have proof that both of you agreed to the change.

 

So TMC for all their trying to front being a stand up place to do business are just as big of piles of #### as the next group of tirds.