cosgo
08-11-2010, 09:16 PM
The other day you were talking about what to do when someone screws you out of cash, or messes up a delivery..... Well today it happens again.
A customer pulls the plug on 2/3rds of my load so i scramble to find 2 other peices. A carrier (not a broker) has 2 vans listed on Central, so i call him and book them. I ask him to up his price a little (which was low to begin with) and he agrees. I am to collect $900 and send him $50 ($850 to the truck). I agree, and off we go. My truck gets to the p/u point (after calling ahead) and the vans are ready to go BUT.... they dont run. I call the carrier that brokered this whole deal and he tells me that he had no clue. The shop that has the vans says if we wait till morning, they'll load them for us, but nobody is there for the rest of the night. I let the truck sit overnight as it was getting late, and my driver was on the road all day anyway, morning comes and the forklift operator calls in sick. 2 hours go by and another finally shows. they load the first one no problem, but when they try to load the second - it wont move. frozen brakes or something. the shop gives up and says that they arent being payed for dicking around with this stuff and tells us to figure it out. i call the broker (carrier) and he's clueless. I call the destination customer and tell him that if im messing with it, he owes me more money and he says ok. so my driver jacks up the van, removes rims, and hubs fixes the problem, and gets it loaded. This process takes 4 and a half hours. I call the destination customer once my truck is on the road (got voicemail), and tell him that its an extra $200. 4 hours later he calls me and says NO WAY. he's not paying any extra money. he is just a middle man, and the owner of the vans is cheap and will not pay. As a matter of fact, he only has $850 and not the $900 im supposed to collect!!! I call the broker (carrier) and he gives up and says, "do what you have to do". I call the guy back once more and tell him that im impoundin the vans and ill own them in a month, he says go ahead. What do i do now??? I can deliver for $850, not send the broker shit, and call it a loss. or rent storage, loose my pay for the delivery, loose pay to pick those pieces of crap up again and drag them to illinois, and then dick with the process to try and get titles so that i can sell them, and hope to make a buck (he paid $4000 for both vans - they are both wrecked and have bad tranmissions, 2001 &2004 e350's)
I think ill just cut my losses and get what i can get... sometimes you win, sometimes you loose.
A customer pulls the plug on 2/3rds of my load so i scramble to find 2 other peices. A carrier (not a broker) has 2 vans listed on Central, so i call him and book them. I ask him to up his price a little (which was low to begin with) and he agrees. I am to collect $900 and send him $50 ($850 to the truck). I agree, and off we go. My truck gets to the p/u point (after calling ahead) and the vans are ready to go BUT.... they dont run. I call the carrier that brokered this whole deal and he tells me that he had no clue. The shop that has the vans says if we wait till morning, they'll load them for us, but nobody is there for the rest of the night. I let the truck sit overnight as it was getting late, and my driver was on the road all day anyway, morning comes and the forklift operator calls in sick. 2 hours go by and another finally shows. they load the first one no problem, but when they try to load the second - it wont move. frozen brakes or something. the shop gives up and says that they arent being payed for dicking around with this stuff and tells us to figure it out. i call the broker (carrier) and he's clueless. I call the destination customer and tell him that if im messing with it, he owes me more money and he says ok. so my driver jacks up the van, removes rims, and hubs fixes the problem, and gets it loaded. This process takes 4 and a half hours. I call the destination customer once my truck is on the road (got voicemail), and tell him that its an extra $200. 4 hours later he calls me and says NO WAY. he's not paying any extra money. he is just a middle man, and the owner of the vans is cheap and will not pay. As a matter of fact, he only has $850 and not the $900 im supposed to collect!!! I call the broker (carrier) and he gives up and says, "do what you have to do". I call the guy back once more and tell him that im impoundin the vans and ill own them in a month, he says go ahead. What do i do now??? I can deliver for $850, not send the broker shit, and call it a loss. or rent storage, loose my pay for the delivery, loose pay to pick those pieces of crap up again and drag them to illinois, and then dick with the process to try and get titles so that i can sell them, and hope to make a buck (he paid $4000 for both vans - they are both wrecked and have bad tranmissions, 2001 &2004 e350's)
I think ill just cut my losses and get what i can get... sometimes you win, sometimes you loose.