My first fight with a broker as an Owner Operator

What advice did you give me? Your post was just assumption and judgement. You INCORRECTLY assumed that I didn't want to haul the load because I could have gotten more money. Not the case at all. Then you are questioning why I didn't get there earlier. It took an hour to get there from 30 miles away. And I DID get there early but the ratecon STILL wasn't sent correctly. My whole beef was that BECAUSE of the broker's incompetence, I wasn't able to get the load and wasted time, fuel and effort for nothing. So now I wasted a weekend. And then ON TOP of all that, the broker wants to be a prik.

What was I hoping to accomplish by driving there without the proper ratecon? Well, I'd HOPED that in the hour that it took me to get there, they would have fixed the problem. There were two things I could have done to prevent all this:

1- Not move my truck until I got the ratecon, which would have made it impossible to get there before closing.

2- Grab the trailer first the moment I got there and worry about the ratecon later. They would have had to fix it eventually since I now had their trailer as leverage. But I didn't think about all this in the heat of the moment.

A third option would have been to just not take the load after seeing that the ratecon wasn't coming in and that I would have been late. It was still early enough in the day to grab another load.

It's all good. If this ever happens again I will know what to do.

 

I was thinking about that the other day. Not just with the loadout trailers, but even if you own your trailer. If a forklift guy damages your trailer, are they not liable? They have insurance that covers that stuff I imagine.

 

There is a separate insurance for unowned trailers/trailer interchange in my policy. A place like Wabash for example, requires that you have at least $50,000 coverage before they give you one of their trailers. The same if you go to the railyards and take a BNSF container.

 

Lol. I never said I'm determined to continue to work with them! But that horse has left the barn. So I now have to figure how to play the cards I'm holding. I don't even want the $75 to be honest. But the thing is, if I don't show up on Monday, these idiots are dishonorable enough to ding my report and say that I never showed up. I have a clean record and want to keep it that way.