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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;JimmyTwoTimes, post: 12369997, member: 275100&quot;]My thoughts after reading this thread:</p><p><br /></p><ul> <li>This is probably a load being hauled on behalf of Dollar General, not the shipper.&nbsp; Hence the shipper saying they need authority from the broker to unload.</li> <li>Dollar General is notorious for this type of ####.&nbsp; I&#039;ve met with their transportation team and when I asked about challenges when it comes to hauling their freight, they literally said &quot;If your driver misses an appointment, he might not get a new one for a month&quot;.</li> <li>This isn&#039;t the broker&#039;s fault, but so far it doesn&#039;t sound like they&#039;ve done a ton to try and fix it.&nbsp; The problem is they are stuck between a rock and a hard spot.&nbsp; They can&#039;t force Dollar General to give them a new appointment, and my suspicion is that the shipper wants to charge either Dollar General or the broker to take the product back into inventory.&nbsp; The broker can&#039;t pass that along to Dollar General (they are very up front about what happens if a carrier missed delivery, so they aren&#039;t going to pay the fee) and they can&#039;t pass it on to the carrier that has the load (OP in this case) because once they have the load off their truck they are going to ride off into the sunset.&nbsp; So the broker is stuck eating the fee, which they don&#039;t want to do because they didn&#039;t do anything wrong in this scenario.</li> <li>OP - You&#039;ve gotten some good advice here.&nbsp; You can try hitting up the receiver and seeing if someone will take a couple hundred bucks to work you in (someone might do it for free if you just ask nicely, you never know).&nbsp; You can tell the broker you are going to need to charge storage fees, you still risk getting freightguarded&nbsp; but if you keep the charges reasonable you can explain what happened in your FG response and most brokers will read it and realize you aren&#039;t a bad carrier and continue to work with you.</li> <li>Some of you come guns a blazing for brokers in every thread without understanding what is actually happening behind the scenes.&nbsp; I know there are some bad apples out there but not every brokerage is out there to swindle truck drivers.</li> </ul><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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