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I don't personally have any experience with this ( knock on wood ) but, seems odd nonetheless...

I've read many, many threads on here in regards to this same situation and this has to be the first time I've ever heard of a broker just immediately give in, and say OK here's the extra $4k you want!!! No problem!!!

Not to mention this guy has a brand new authority and CDL from what he posted on another thread...

I suppose anything is possible, just smells a bit funny...

 

Exactly.
$4k, sure, no big deal.....we do it all the time.
Sure you do

 

You're gonna get screwed.
100%

 

Let us know how this turns out for you. An immediate 4 grand rate bump is pretty much unheard of unless you're doing super-load HH.
One thing you can count on is that broker will never use you again and the consignee will piss in your well every chance he gets.

 

We have a warehouse also, and get deliveries all the time. Every time a customer or broker calls me about a load delivery to our warehouse, I give them my personal cell number with express instructions to give my number to the driver and have him call me to setup delivery.
The thing is, we can unload almost any time to fit the driver’s schedule, but it’s not a manned warehouse and I just need to know when to expect them so I can have somebody there to unload. They hardly ever call. I don’t know if the driver isn’t given my number and instructions or they just refuse to call. Either way, they have had to wait several hours before because I didn’t know they were coming. Not my problem, the instructions were given.

 

Absolutely. That was something I noticed immediately as well. Hopefully, I'm wrong but my intuition is not feeling very hopeful. I hope the OP updates us in 30 days.

 

Attorneys are irrelevant (and the one you spoke to is obviously ignorant as you both already have a General Agreement that's parent to the RC) when filing on a claim on a surety bond as it's not a court of law. Since the broker sent the updated rate con it's automatically implied that they agreed to the terms. This would normally be all that's needed with an insurance claim as long as the RC is seen as an extension of the Agreement and or as addendum which 99 percent of them do. The problem here is that the broker can easily claim their hand was forced via extortion to get their customer's freight released.