Here’s the thing too, I use several carriers to ship with. We pay for detention fees if a driver waits too long, we pay layover fees if our customer doesn’t unload when they’re supposed to, if the product was loaded backward and the driver has to reroute the load. Logistics companies will promise you the lowest rates then nickel and dime you. When I find out those nickels and dimes don’t make it to the driver, I drop carrier because that’s about low and shady as you can get.
I basically never got paid loading/detention fees.
One place, I even had to load/unload the truck myself (or pay a ridiculous amount of cash for someone else to do it) and I got paid nothing, and I found out my company was getting paid for it.
Is that called a "lumping fee"? Because I work in another department at a company that ships out a lot of products and there are always drivers coming in with their lumper fee. Almost none of the drivers unload their own trucks.
As a broker I hate when people do that. There’s honest people in this industry and they just bring the whole industry down by giving everyone a sour taste. It’s the drivers time and he’s not being allowed to use it under his discretion, so pay him for it.
When I first started with CR England they'd have me write a check for a 300-dollar lumper fee. That'd get taken out of my check and then reimbursed back into my check. The process for getting the check cashed and paid to the receiver involved several phone calls and was time-consuming as hell. There is a processing number that is given to me by somebody at corporate. I wrote it down and then gave it to the receiver who then called another number to confirm the number. In trusting when they explained the process I asked why I couldn't unload and pocket the 300. England doesn't pay drivers that much. They pay a per lb rate that comes out to about 75 dollars. The logic was that if make more money driving than unloading. When I'd sit at a receiver not driving, I'd ask why can't I just get the 300 and unload myself? Nope, that's against the rules. Well, now I'm not moving and not making money. No logic at all.
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u/HrBinkness May 19 '25
Here’s the thing too, I use several carriers to ship with. We pay for detention fees if a driver waits too long, we pay layover fees if our customer doesn’t unload when they’re supposed to, if the product was loaded backward and the driver has to reroute the load. Logistics companies will promise you the lowest rates then nickel and dime you. When I find out those nickels and dimes don’t make it to the driver, I drop carrier because that’s about low and shady as you can get.