Category: Legal General
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Bad debts are one of the most dangerous threats facing any freight brokerage, and they can turn a profitable quarter into a financial disaster almost overnight. Imagine one of your largest customers suddenly going belly up while owing you and your broker $50,000 in unpaid freight bills. You soon learn there is no realistic hope…
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Road rage turned a routine highway commute into a seven-hour nightmare on Salt Lake City’s I-15 to I-215 interchange, when a motorist deliberately brake-checked a semi-truck and sent it rolling across four lanes of traffic. What started as one driver’s anger over a simple lane change ended in five separate collisions, a shut-down freeway, and…
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Congress approved the Highway Bill, and President Obama is set to sign it on Friday, July 6, 2012. The report contains the TIA-OOIDA-ATA compromise language almost exactly. How will this affect you? Read the great blog post and summary from DAT.com. Leave a comment below and let us know what you think! Related reading: Oil…
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Well, it’s official. Effective January 3, 2012, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) and others implemented a rule banning the use of cell phones while driving for all commercial truck drivers. Violations can be severe – up to $2,750 fine for each offense and possible commercial license suspension for multiple…
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Negligence is the legal concept that makes a person or company responsible for harm caused by a failure to use reasonable care. In plain terms, negligence happens whenever someone owes a duty to act carefully, breaks that duty, and that failure injures another person. Because trucking accidents, cargo damage claims, and freight broker disputes almost…
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Delay charges are the fees a shipper, broker, or carrier agrees to pay when freight misses its scheduled pickup or delivery appointment because of something within a party’s control. In the trucking and logistics world, these charges exist to protect shippers running tight, just-in-time supply chains — think automotive plants that cannot absorb even one…
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A truck has the right to deliver the freight in a reasonable period of time. The driver of the truck must act in the best interest of the public. He must drive safe, obey the speed limit, follow the HOS (hours of service) regulations, and follow local laws while making every reasonable effort to deliver your…