What happens if I deliver my freight late?

Believe it or not I was 40 mins late with a water load to the Pottsville PA DC due to 11hrs of detention at the shipper and they didn't say a word. I think they were aware of the shipper issues though, it was the same deal for everyone.

 

I have always been under the impression Walmart gives an hour on either side of an appointment.

 

I had a was held up at a stop do to them being idiots. I was to pick up at a town 30 miles away and did not get empty until 32 minutes before I was to start loading at the second place. I got there 1 minute late and the gate guard would not let me in until I had filled out a comcheck for 150 usd. Called the company and they got me an express code. What the gate guard had to do with the process was beyond me.

 

Really depends on how contracts in place are negotiated. Often times there are penalties for late deliveries. Sometimes there is a window, sometimes there isn't.

 

I think with Schneider independent contractors who break down or are late the get charged a $500 dollar repower fee or late fee from the carrier. Someone will correct me hopefully.

I have read about other lease op carriers who pay their IC's like 75% of the load and only 65% if they are late.

When you run a lot of load board spot freight the brokers are just about calling every hour on the hour wanting to know the load status so it is not late. Plus they keep calling til you send in the cleared paperwork.

Still other carriers will use ontime delivery as an incentive for quarterly bonuses, one late load, one dirty inspection, one ticket or crash incident in that quarter will deny the bonus to the driver.

 

The key is to realize that changing an appointment means the load is ON TIME.

 

Really? Spend a week in an OTR carrier's dispatch and CSR departments and learn how difficult/impossible it is to change an appointment with less than 24-48 hours notice without having to sit excess hours/days.

That initial appointment time was selected for a reason. In our world, it's usually easier to re-power a load than to change an appointment.

 

Shoot. You can show up "on time", at least according to your rate confirmation, and the receiver says those 2 magic words: "You're late." I get paid "per mile" so any dispute about what "on time" means is above my pay grade.

Take this past Monday for example. Dispatch said to be at the drop at 9am. Rate con I was forwarded said to call the broker for an appointment- pfff, like that's happening. [I called the broker anyway for shiggles and surprise, surprise, no answer]

I showed up to my drop the night before and got up at 7am to poke around for the deal-eo. I text dispatch and ask, "hey, what time is my appt really for?" They respond: "Sorry, dropped the ball- it's at 13:30. But go early because THE BROKER SAID they will offload you." The rest is a trade secret that you can get for only $19.95.

Sorry to break it to you OP but you're not just a driver, you're also a diplomat if you want to be "on time" 99.9% of the time. How you deal with shippers, receivers, dispatch, brokers, fuel desk attendants, other drivers on the road and any one you come into contact with during the course of your load will determine whether you're "on time" or not. So play nice and polish up those soft skills....

 

I have been laughing so hard reading some of these replies and driving down memory lane. I used to do do a delivery at least 1 or 2 times at the Henderson NC Walmart DC. I was already about 5 minutes late and past that one hour I spoke of before. I have had a lot of conversations with most of the people that worked that gate. Anyway so I was known by them as a cut up. I came in the girl typed in my number and looked at me and said your late. I told that girl if she did not let me in I was gonna stand outside the gate and sing that old song mammy to her. She rolled up her eyes told me she should call security but started laughing and called the traffic office and they let me on in. Humor don't work in most places but it can't hurt to try.

 

The worst is when you get to the customer 1 hour early but there are 1:25 hours worth of trucks checking in in front of you.

It is about as much sense as a guy who writes in Latin but cannot make the proper contraction from 'you' and 'are' properly into 'you're' lol.