Post by petedabroker on Sept 13, 2008 11:51:48 GMT -5
I shall provide you some tips related to making certain, what you have on your lease, in regards to percentage is actually being paid to you.
Tips as follows:
1) You pick up the load and make delivery. You are provided with a delivery order. On that order states exactly who is responsible for inland freight. If it says freight prepaid, then the shipper is responsible, if it states freight collect , then the consignee is responsible for it. Remember one thing in particular, which is rather important. Neither of those folks might ultimately be responsible to pay your firm. Sometimes on line routed equipment the steamship lines is the company being billed. Sometimes it might be the Custom House broker on the delivery order. That being the case the delivery order should read Bill inland freight to: BLANK, BLANK LINES. Or inland freight for the account of : Rickensmacker Custom House Brokers.
Ok, now how should you handle the little deceiving part? Call the number or look up their number via the phone directory. Ask for their shipping department manager, line manager, or manager of the import or export department if it is a Freight Forwarder or CHB as the billed to party. Ask him/her , you are calling to confirm the inland freight amount for container number CTIU-555555-5 or whatever that container number you handled. You would be surprised to learn that most will actually tell you and not even ask for your mothers maiden names. Related to route coded containers, well that could be a problem. Those guys are a little smarter than most and would question your reason to need such. Just tell them you are in dispatch and need to get the file billed out and the boss is not around. Give them a name of one of the dispatchers. If they question more, just hang up.
2) I was a dispatcher before I became an owner. Many of those drivers were my buddies along with being my workers. If I knew the boss was holding up some of their funds, meaning the load paid $400 and he told me to tell the drivers it paid $325, I would let those drivers know something. I would cover my donkey by telling the boss the consignee must of let it slip out. At least that is what one of the drivers told me. You would also be surprised just how honest the employees/dispatchers , who do not own part of the company can be to you. Just ask one of them without having any other drivers around. Some will just flip up the dispatch sheet and let you see it on your own. Never give them up to the boss. Make the boss gouge your eyes out first and even then don't give them up. Never tell any other employee as to how you secured this information. They will never trust you again. Just tell the boss the consignee told me the price. He cannot go back to the consignee and yell at them, because they are his customers.
My old boss would go crazy. He would say Just How in the Hell are they getting that information. I would say, yeah, that f**king Gary who works for the shipper, is such a big mouth. I heard him the other day yell, while I was on the phone with him,tell one of our drivers, you better get that load away from the dock, I paid your company $400 for that dray so you better do what I say.
He would never call Gary and tell him not to say what he is charging to anyone. The customer would then know he is cheating the drivers. So he keeps quiet and stays honest. On those loads anyhow. This gives you some protections, not much, but every little bit helps. Needless to say this does not apply for a flat rated move only on a percentage of the gross move. Good luck.
Peter
Tips as follows:
1) You pick up the load and make delivery. You are provided with a delivery order. On that order states exactly who is responsible for inland freight. If it says freight prepaid, then the shipper is responsible, if it states freight collect , then the consignee is responsible for it. Remember one thing in particular, which is rather important. Neither of those folks might ultimately be responsible to pay your firm. Sometimes on line routed equipment the steamship lines is the company being billed. Sometimes it might be the Custom House broker on the delivery order. That being the case the delivery order should read Bill inland freight to: BLANK, BLANK LINES. Or inland freight for the account of : Rickensmacker Custom House Brokers.
Ok, now how should you handle the little deceiving part? Call the number or look up their number via the phone directory. Ask for their shipping department manager, line manager, or manager of the import or export department if it is a Freight Forwarder or CHB as the billed to party. Ask him/her , you are calling to confirm the inland freight amount for container number CTIU-555555-5 or whatever that container number you handled. You would be surprised to learn that most will actually tell you and not even ask for your mothers maiden names. Related to route coded containers, well that could be a problem. Those guys are a little smarter than most and would question your reason to need such. Just tell them you are in dispatch and need to get the file billed out and the boss is not around. Give them a name of one of the dispatchers. If they question more, just hang up.
2) I was a dispatcher before I became an owner. Many of those drivers were my buddies along with being my workers. If I knew the boss was holding up some of their funds, meaning the load paid $400 and he told me to tell the drivers it paid $325, I would let those drivers know something. I would cover my donkey by telling the boss the consignee must of let it slip out. At least that is what one of the drivers told me. You would also be surprised just how honest the employees/dispatchers , who do not own part of the company can be to you. Just ask one of them without having any other drivers around. Some will just flip up the dispatch sheet and let you see it on your own. Never give them up to the boss. Make the boss gouge your eyes out first and even then don't give them up. Never tell any other employee as to how you secured this information. They will never trust you again. Just tell the boss the consignee told me the price. He cannot go back to the consignee and yell at them, because they are his customers.
My old boss would go crazy. He would say Just How in the Hell are they getting that information. I would say, yeah, that f**king Gary who works for the shipper, is such a big mouth. I heard him the other day yell, while I was on the phone with him,tell one of our drivers, you better get that load away from the dock, I paid your company $400 for that dray so you better do what I say.
He would never call Gary and tell him not to say what he is charging to anyone. The customer would then know he is cheating the drivers. So he keeps quiet and stays honest. On those loads anyhow. This gives you some protections, not much, but every little bit helps. Needless to say this does not apply for a flat rated move only on a percentage of the gross move. Good luck.
Peter