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At least they were up front with you from the start by saying it was a tentative load. I will not hold my truck for any "Phantom Load". I always ask if it's a good load before I verbally give them my truck. Then if a rate confirmation does not follow in a short period of time, depending on who it is, I will book my truck with some one else. I have been burned too many times in the past holding my truck for a "Phantom Load". Just let them know from the get go that you are going to continue to look. It happens more on the west coast than any other place.

 

how do they Force you to sign anything?

 

When I was a O/O, I have had times when this would happen, I have always told the broker, call me back when you actually have acquired the load, if I'm available we can talk, Like vangtransport said, I never held my truck for a phantom load

 

20 min window is all I give for an "I'll call you right back!" situation.

 

I just delivered a load for FAK, I was on time for pickup, made sure to do all check calls and was 30 minutes early for delivery, when I got you the gate at 1:30 in the morning I was informed that my appointment was not till 4:00. I had to leave and come back no earlier than 3:30. When I asked to be compensated for the mistake I was told they would check with the customer but doubted I would get paid. I mentioned that it was not the customer that made the mistake, at this point the gal got ignorant and told me that my 2 hours aren't worth anything. At that point I told her this would be the only load I ever hauled for them. She got even more defensive and put me on the don't use list, I had to laugh that she would think I would ever haul another load for them to begin with. Her point was that the carriers that complain and want to be compensated for their time are the ones they don't want to do business with. So how am I supposed to read that? They want to do business with people who don't expect to be proper compensated, what kind of carrier is that? How long can they maintain that business model? It is a very easy choice for me, FAK is 100%on my brokers that I will never use again!

Rex

 

Same thing happened to me in Indiana 2 days ago. Got to the shipper and nobody there has a clue about the load or anything being shipped that day. Call the broker let them knows what's going on I tell them that I'm bouncing out I'm not waisting my time. Broker then calls me last night asking me if I delivered the load lol then goes off on me about not being professional. I'm like unprofessional is you jerking me around and waisting my time on a load that doesn't even exist.

 

But in that case, what do you do? You wasted time and opportunity to find alternative load. Do you have any legal recourse or just forget about it?

 

I just forgot about it and made a note on that particular broker to not work with him in the future.

 

Heck, I get that quite a bit in the heavy haul world. You see a ld. posted, call on it and they are fishing for a rate. Like others have said.
No paperwork or word about it being a go after like 20 to 30 mins. I'm still looking....