Watch out for US Express loads

I'm working on 20 years out and have yet to
Touch a amazon load. I would think a Costomer
This big would have their #### together.
In and out, 24/7.
But from reading this forum that's obviously not true.

 

They do a lot of drop trailers. Nothing to do with not having #### together.

 

Home Depot DC's are a week to 10 days. Be advised.

 

Oh I get it now. You accepted a bad contract (a drop load, no detention,, no clause to get rid of the product, etc...) and it's a bad broker. Then Amazon helped commit a felony (Theft over a $1,000 value is typically a felony) and they are great. Gotcha.

A bit of advice so you don't have to commit felonies to run your business. Learn to write contracts and only accept contracts (rate sheets are contracts) that benefit your business. If the load doesn't benefit your business, find customers that pay well enough to do that. There are plenty out there.

 

Your just looking for a fight. Lol.

 

Not really. I mean apparently I'm in a fairly bad mood today, but mostly it's a personal responsibility thing. He accepted a contract that did not benefit his company and it is somehow someone else's fault.

All I really am trying to point out is he needs to get better contracts or he's going to go out of business. Which I never want to see. I really do wish people to succeed, but to do so they need to be honest with themselves.

 

So the contract stated live unload. I'm assuming (yes I know what assume means) that you had no detention pay high enough to cover the detention specified in the contract? If not, it was a bad contract. If so, why did you have to steal US Express' trailer?
And just because Amazon was a party to the theft, doesn't mean it wasn't theft. I seriously doubt Amazon had the right to give you the trailer.
Let's flip it though. What would you have done if you back back there and Amazon had given your trailer to some random US Express guy? I mean after all, it was in the pool now....